Donald Trump

=== Film and television ===
{{Main|Media career of Donald Trump}}
Trump made cameo appearances in many films and television shows from 1985 to 2001.<ref>{{cite web|first=Adrienne|last=LaFrance|title=Three Decades of Donald Trump Film and TV Cameos|date=December 21, 2015|work=[[The Atlantic]]|url=https://www.theatlantic.com/entertainment/archive/2015/12/three-decades-of-donald-trump-film-and-tv-cameos/421257/}}</ref>

Trump had a sporadic relationship with the professional wrestling promotion [[WWE]] since the late 1980s.<ref>{{cite web|first=Josh|last=Dawsey|title=Trump's obsession with WrestleMania and fake drama|date=January 16, 2017|work=[[Politico]]|url=https://www.politico.com/story/2017/01/trump-wrestlemania-fake-233615|access-date=January 28, 2022}}</ref> He appeared at [[WrestleMania 23]] in 2007 and was inducted into the celebrity wing of the [[WWE Hall of Fame (2013)|WWE Hall of Fame in 2013]].<ref>{{cite web|last1=Kelly|first1=Chris|last2=Wetherbee|first2=Brandon|date=December 9, 2016|title=Heel in Chief|work=[[Slate (magazine)|Slate]]|url=https://slate.com/culture/2016/12/donald-trump-learned-his-political-moves-from-wwe.html|access-date=March 5, 2019}}</ref>

[[File:Donald trump at the game (3728975319).jpg|thumb|upright=0.9|Trump at a [[New York Mets]] baseball game in 2009|alt=Trump, in a suit, sits in a crowded baseball stadium]]

Starting in the 1990s, Trump was a guest about 24 times on the nationally syndicated ''[[Howard Stern Show]]''.{{sfn|Kranish|Fisher|2017|p=[https://books.google.com/books?id=x2jUDQAAQBAJ&pg=PA166 166]}} He also had his own short-form talk radio program called ''[[Trumped!]]'' (one to two minutes on weekdays) from 2004 to 2008.<ref>{{cite web|url=https://people.com/celebrity/the-donald-to-get-new-wife-radio-show/|title=The Donald to Get New Wife, Radio Show|work=[[People (magazine)|People]]|date=April 29, 2004 |access-date=November 19, 2013|first=Stephen M.|last=Silverman |author-link=Stephen M. Silverman}}</ref><!-- Only sources I find are from 2004 like this: https://www.businesswire.com/news/home/20040607005748/en/Trumped!-Donald-Trump-Biggest-Launch-Radio-History --><ref>{{cite web|first=Bob|last=Tedeschi|url=https://www.nytimes.com/2006/02/06/technology/now-for-sale-online-the-art-of-the-vacation.html|title=Now for Sale Online, the Art of the Vacation|work=[[The New York Times]]|date=February 6, 2006|access-date=October 21, 2018}}</ref> From 2011 until 2015, he was a weekly unpaid guest commentator on ''[[Fox & Friends]]''.<ref>{{cite web|last=Montopoli|first=Brian|url=https://www.cbsnews.com/news/donald-trump-gets-regular-fox-news-spot/|title=Donald Trump gets regular Fox News spot|work=[[CBS News]]|date=April 1, 2011|access-date=July 7, 2018}}</ref><ref>{{cite news|last1=Grossmann|first1=Matt|last2=Hopkins|first2=David A.|title=How the conservative media is taking over the Republican Party|url=https://www.washingtonpost.com/news/monkey-cage/wp/2016/09/09/how-the-conservative-media-is-taking-over-the-republican-party/|access-date=October 19, 2018|newspaper=[[The Washington Post]]|date=September 9, 2016}}</ref>

From 2004 to 2015, Trump was co-producer and host of reality shows ''The Apprentice'' and ''[[The Celebrity Apprentice]]''. Trump played a flattering, highly fictionalized version of himself as a superrich and successful chief executive who eliminated contestants with the [[catchphrase]] "You're fired". The shows remade his image for millions of viewers nationwide.<ref>{{cite web|last1=Grynbaum|first1=Michael M.|last2=Parker|first2=Ashley|author-link2=Ashley Parker|date=July 16, 2016|title=Donald Trump the Political Showman, Born on 'The Apprentice'|work=[[The New York Times]]|url=https://www.nytimes.com/2016/07/17/business/media/donald-trump-apprentice.html|access-date=July 8, 2018}}</ref><ref>{{cite magazine |last=Nussbaum |first=Emily |url=https://www.newyorker.com/magazine/2017/07/31/the-tv-that-created-donald-trump |title=The TV That Created Donald Trump
 |magazine=[[The New Yorker]] |date=July 24, 2017 |access-date=October 18, 2023}}</ref> With the related licensing agreements, they earned him more than $400&nbsp;million which he invested in largely unprofitable businesses.<ref>{{cite news|last=Poniewozik |first=James |url=https://www.nytimes.com/2020/09/28/arts/television/trump-taxes-apprentice.html |title=Donald Trump Was the Real Winner of 'The Apprentice' |work=[[The New York Times]] |date=September 28, 2020 |access-date=October 18, 2023}}</ref>

In February 2021, Trump resigned from the [[SAG-AFTRA|Screen Actors Guild]] he had been a member of since 1989 rather than face a disciplinary committee hearing for inciting the January 6, 2021, mob attack on the U.S. Capitol and for his "reckless campaign of misinformation aimed at discrediting and ultimately threatening the safety of journalists".<ref>{{cite news|last=Rao|first=Sonia|url=https://www.washingtonpost.com/arts-entertainment/2021/02/04/trump-resigns-screen-actors-guild/|title=Facing expulsion, Trump resigns from the Screen Actors Guild: 'You have done nothing for me'|newspaper=[[The Washington Post]]|date=February 4, 2021 |access-date=February 5, 2021}}</ref> Two days later, the union permanently barred him from readmission.<ref>{{cite web|last=Harmata|first=Claudia|url=https://people.com/tv/sag-aftra-bans-donald-trump-future-readmission/|title=Donald Trump Banned from Future Re-Admission to SAG-AFTRA: It's 'More Than a Symbolic Step'|work=[[People (magazine)|People]]|date=February 7, 2021 |access-date=February 8, 2021}}</ref>