Donald J. Trump (OU)

"Frankly, I think your plan is garbage. I have an idea and it's fantastic. We're going to build something and keep both Klaks away for good, we'll get the experts to help us, and it'll be amazing. I've got experience in defeating guys like him; I've made deals with people twice as bad, I'm good at the deal. When it comes to deals, I wrote the book. Let me tell you, it’s an art, and I'm an artist. You'll be thanking me, you’re gonna say, 'thanks a lot', because I'm going to make this universe Klakless. You know, both Klaks keep getting their friends killed, I don’t think they’re real heroes, they’re losers to be quite frank with you. Not heroes. Not like me."

- Donald J. Trump to Mazkertis

Donald J. Trump is the 45th and current ruling President of the United States of America.

Early Life
Donald J. Trump was born in the United States of America in the 20th century of the Gregorian calendar. When Trump was a child, his father showed him scientific documents that he had inherited from Nikola Tesla, one of the finest minds of his generation, which outlined Tesla's unfinished magnum opus: a time machine. Though Tesla had been unable to complete his time machine due to being restricted by the technology of his time, Trump knew that the project could be completed once technology had progressed to a sufficient level. In Trump's adolescence, he and his father came into possession of the components required to complete the time machine and used them to finish the project themselves, fulfilling Tesla's dream. At first, Trump and his father used the time machine for personal gain, but the more they travelled, the more apparent it became that time travel was more than just a larking fantasy: it was a sacred responsibility. After his father passed away, Trump began to use the machine to gain knowledge of future events and use that information to increase his wealth in the present so that he could more easily steer the development of Earth away from catastrophe and towards his own idea of prosperity. In Trump's own words, he decided to become President due to "a mixture of greed, vanity, and a desire to do the right thing".

After using his knowledge of future events to win the 2016 presidential election, Trump used the time machine to travel further into the future than ever before, beyond Earth and into the stars, to see if he could expand his influence out into the cosmos. The future he experienced was one that he could only describe as a "nightmare", which seemed to have been chiefly brought about by the actions of an alien renegade named Klak. After spending several months revisiting this future, Trump returned to the present in order to ally himself with an enemy of Klak's named Mazkertis in the hope that destroying Klak would prevent the dark future from ever coming to pass.

The Mazkertis Paradox
In 150,084 CMT (Day 11 of The Mazkertis Paradox arc), Trump hitched a ride with Osseron Tyrok to Kalta Thaea, where Mazkertis had arranged for several potential allies to meet with him that day to discuss the prospects of an alliance. While the gathered villains waited for Mazkertis to commence the meeting, Trump mocked the Green Goblin, telling him "Meme World is down the universe, and to the right", much to the Goblin's annoyance. When Mazkertis revealed that his plan to destroy Klak and D-Klak, Klak's alternate universe counterpart, required erasing them both from history altogether, Trump declared that he thought the plan was "garbage", because he was secretly wary of the effect that changing the past could possibly have on his rule over Earth. Instead, Trump suggested an alternative plan that involved building something that would "keep both Klaks away for good", bragging that he could easily get it done because he had mastered the art of the deal. However, Mazkertis was not impressed or convinced by Trump's proposal, so Trump angrily told Mazkertis that he would "regret this" and teleported away.

Over the next few weeks, Trump returned to Earth to discover that the planet's timeline had become severely distorted, with the events of the years 2014-2019 having somehow been compressed into the year of 2014. He also learned that temporal anomalies had begun to spring up all over the planet, with time itself becoming difficult to measure: what some saw as hours, others saw as days, with both observations being correct to some degree. In order to suppress awareness of this problem among the public to prevent mass panic, Trump employed the services of the Foundation, who proceeded to put a "blindfold" over the world that kept the general populace unaware that the timeline was unravelling. However, because this solution was temporary at best, Trump resolved to find the cause of the problem, which he began to suspect was Mazkertis due to the nature of Mazkertis's plan.

Assembly of the Reverie
On Day 56, Trump attended the 3784th Assembly of the Reverie as the representative of Earth, where he intended to ask the other members of the Reverie for their help in fixing the timeline of Earth and apprehending Mazkertis. However, before Trump could address the Reverie, four aliens named Captain Eurobeat, Strika, Niflheim, and Leviathan appeared in the conference chamber to warn the Reverie about Mazkertis themselves. To Trump's dismay, the Reverie dismissed the notion of a wizard who could change time on a universal scale as nothing more than the preposterous ravings of mad doomsayers, and the matter was overshadowed entirely when Akoran Zicks concluded the conference with the announcement that he intended to dissolve the Galactic Government altogether. Just as the aliens were about to leave empty-handed, Trump flew his podium down to meet them, where he revealed that he knew that they were telling the truth about Mazkertis because he had previously met Mazkertis himself. Trump then offered to help them put an end to Mazkertis by lending them the services of three of Earth's best assassins. However, there was a catch: each of these assassins - Agent 47, Seeldier, and the Joker - were imprisoned in Supermax 282, a prison that was now outside his influence, meaning that they would have to be broken out to be useful. To sweeten the deal, Trump added that their reward for freeing the assassins would be the "permanent allegiance of Earth" in all of their future endeavours. The aliens agreed to Trump's deal, so Trump gave them the coordinates to Supermax 282 and looked on in satisfaction while they departed through a portal.

Terrestrial Allies
On Day 76, Trump invited the newly-elected Prime Minister of the United Kingdom, Boris Johnson, to a private meeting in the White House to discuss the issues that were currently plaguing their world. After the two leaders exchanged formalities, Trump announced that the matter he wanted to discuss with Johnson was a "TKX-class scenario", which prompted the human bodyguards to file out of the room and leave the two men alone with their Psymancers. While Johnson sat and listened with growing concern, Trump explained that something had gone very wrong with the timeline of their universe that had caused the passage of time to become distorted and difficult to measure on Earth, as well as creating temporal anomalies across the universe at an unprecedented rate. Although this issue came as a surprise to Johnson because he had not been briefed on it, he informed Trump that he had been briefed on the existence of the Foundation that morning, which was an organization that deeply disturbed him. Trump then revealed that the reason he knew so much about the state of Earth's timeline was because he was a time traveller himself, much to Johnson's surprise. Trump proceeded to recite his long history of experience with time travel, including his visits to a nightmarish future that had been brought about by the actions of an alien renegade in the present named Klak.

As Johnson continued to listen, Trump explained that he had returned to the present to ally himself with an enemy of Klak named Mazkertis in order to remove Klak and prevent this dark future from ever occurring, only to learn that Mazkertis was an even greater threat who planned to warp past, present, and future into his own twisted vision. Johnson suggested alerting the Galactic Government to the threat that Mazkertis posed, but Trump informed him that four aliens had already attempted to do so at the 3784th Assembly of the Reverie, only to be mocked and ignored. However, Trump revealed that he had allied himself with the aforementioned aliens and had instructed them to break several prisoners out of Supermax 282 who had the skills that would be needed to find and kill Mazkertis. Johnson realized that this was the breakout that had led to the closure of the prison and his own subsequent release by the Blackwatch Corporation, which had enabled him to continue his political career on Earth and become the Prime Minister of the United Kingdom.

The final matter that Trump discussed with Johnson was that Trump had somewhat prematurely promised the aliens that they would have all of Earth's resources at their disposal in their mission to kill Mazkertis, despite Trump only being the representative of Earth in the Reverie and not the supreme commander of the planet. However, because Johnson had gained even more confidence in Trump as a result of his story, he agreed to lend the resources of the United Kingdom to Trump's mission in order to kill Mazkertis and save the universe's timeline.

Trivia

 * Trump's first appearance in BZPB canon was in Chapter 8 of The Mazkertis Paradox. User:Klak included him in the chapter as a joke, and referred to him only as the "Affluent Man", with his real name being omitted. When User:Kon included Trump in Chapter 12, he also referred to him only as the "Affluent Man". When Trump won the U.S. Presidential election in November 2016, elevating him to the same status as Barack Obama, who had previously appeared in BZPB under his real name, Kon finally unmasked the Affluent Man.