ABSTRACT
Much of the US media tries to understand Donald Trump through the prism of the European populist radical right. This chapter focuses on Trump, Trumpism, and the Trumpista, but emphasizes the typical American characteristics of all three. "Trumpism" is far too big a term for the incoherent and ever-shifting views of Trump. Just like politicians such as Geert Wilders in the Netherlands – whose main campaign poster reads: "More Security. Less Immigration" – Trump links immigration and crime in his speeches. However, his general views on immigration and integration are much more in line with US conservatives than with the European far right. For instance, Trump singles out illegal immigration and does not attack the status of the US as a multicultural immigration country. Paradoxically, the term most often used to describe Trump, both in the US and abroad, is possibly the most problematic: populism.
