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Donald Trump

Role
U.S. president
Lived
1946–
Country of activity
United States United States
Strongest axis
Nationalism 83%

Donald Trump is a businessman and Republican politician who served as the forty-fifth president of the United States and returned to office in 2025. His platform emphasizes tariffs, immigration restriction, tax cuts and an "America First" foreign policy.

In the 12 Axes register, Donald Trump leans hardest on Internationalism – Nationalism: Nationalism 83%; the register median is balanced 50%.

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The twelve axes

Where Donald Trump sits on each of the twelve axes, in four categories. The label is our estimate; the line under it says why.

Government

FederalUnitary

Centrist

Mixed: states' rights and strong executive action

DemocraticAutocratic

Centrist

Elected president favoring broad executive power

Security 68%Freedom

Statist

Prioritized border enforcement and policing

Diplomacy

InternationalismNationalism 83%

Nationalist

"America First" foreign policy

Militarist 68%Pacifist

Military-Focused

Raised defense spending, wary of new wars

Assimilationist 68%Multiculturalist

Assimilationist

Restrictive immigration policies

Economy

CollectivizePrivatize 83%

Capitalist

Tax cuts and pro-business policy

PlannedMarkets 68%

Markets

Deregulation combined with targeted intervention

Isolationism 83%Globalism

Protectionist

Imposed broad tariffs

Society

IrreligiousReligious 68%

Spiritual

Allied with evangelical voters

ProgressiveTraditional 68%

Conservative

Conservative judicial appointments

Acceleration 68%Bioconservative

Technological

Backed Space Force and domestic energy

What stands out

Set against the median of all 124 figures in the register.

Most distinctive axis

Planned – Markets

On Planned – Markets, Donald Trump is at Markets 68%. The register median is Planned 68%.

Most ordinary axis

Federal – Unitary

On Federal – Unitary, Donald Trump is at balanced 50%, almost the register median of Unitary 68%.

Who is closest in the register

Country of this figure

Closeness is 100 minus the root-mean-square distance on all twelve axes.

Sources and image credit

Portrait: Daniel Torok, Public domain, via Wikimedia Commons, cropped and resized.

About these positions

The tiers on this page are our estimates from public positions and policies. They are not an official statement by the person or the government concerned. Two independent passes scored every axis and a third settled the differences. How the register works. Found a mistake? Write to [email protected].