Donald Trump

Donald Trump
The Venture Bros. character
First appearance	Faking Miracles
Voiced by	None
Information
Species	Human
Gender	Male
Occupation	Businessman
Nationality	American
Current Alliances	Wide Wale (presumed associate or peer)

Donald Trump is a minor character onThe Venture Bros. He is based on the American businessman turned 45thPresident of the United States.

Character History

Donald Trump appears inFaking Miracles, where he is seen as abackground character inTophet Tower at a party thrown byWide Wale. Creator commentary for the episode reveals that early production of the season was made prior to Trump becoming a presidential candidate and that including him was an action they regret in hindsight.

The creator commentary forA Party for Tarzan reveals that he was actually cut from a pan before it got to him in a scene, as by then Donald Trump had become a presidential candidate for the 2016 election.

Episode Appearances

Season 6

• Faking Miracles
• A Party for Tarzan (scene deleted)

Trivia

• Donald Trump joins a long history ofPresidents of the United States being portrayed onThe Venture Bros., some of whom have been members of villainous organizations likeThe Guild of Calamitous Intent andThe Revenge Society. Other Presidents depicted include:
  • Grover Cleveland (likeness atopGrover Cleveland's Presidential Time Machine)^[1][2]
  • Bill Clinton/George W. Bush (parodied asPresident Breyer)^[3]
  • Abraham Lincoln (asLincoln's Ghost)^[3]
  • Richard Nixon (poster inSgt. Hatred's home; mentioned byDr. Killinger as a former associate)^[4][5]
  • John F. Kennedy (photo withJonas Venture, Sr. and originalTeam Venture on the White House lawn, now hanging in the museum onSpider-Skull Island)^[6]
  • Lyndon B. Johnson (asLyndon-Bee, member ofThe Revenge Society)^[7]
  • Ronald Reagan (mentioned only, hugged byTeddy Talk-To-Me)^[8]
  • Franklin Delano Roosevelt (asFranklin Delano Disco, member ofthe Guild)^[9]
• Trump appears atWide Wale's party in the penthouse ofTophet Tower. The building is based onTrump International Hotel and Tower, located at 1 Central Park West onColumbus Circle between Broadway and Central Park West, in Manhattan, New York City.

Tophet Tower

The Venture Bros. co-creatorJackson Publick had this to say aboutTophet Tower:

"Something I never expected to be as important as it is now is planting the new Venture building at the corner ofColumbus Circle--directly oppositeTrump Tower, in real life. Trump Tower is a big, black glass box with gold appointments on it--right inthe Guild of Calamitous Intent's color spectrum. So we decided the New York equivalent ofMalice, a private neighborhood for villains from previous seasons, isTophet Tower, which has expensive condos primarily for villains. So the villains now live right across the street, because that's how it is in New York: everybody's your neighbor. You no longer need a flyingCocoon to commute to villainy, to your arch.

Wide Wale is just a resident; he's got the penthouse. I don't know if the Guild owns the building. It might be a co-op or they might own a stake in it. It's a building favored by villains, butWarriana lives there too, and she's a superhero. You know, I'm sure a lot of people live inTrump's building who are at opposite ends of the moral and political spectrum."^[10]

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