There is a term, nominative determinism, which is the idea that some people are attracted to jobs that match up with their names. There are photos on the internet of real people with the most wonderfully appropriate names – New York Attorney Sue Yoo, Andrew Drinkwater from the Water Research Centre, Dr Ashley Seawright the eye specialist, Joshua Butt who is a gastroenterologist, funeral directors Wake and Paine, and my personal favourite, an American music teacher called Miss C Sharp. (I remember my second-grade teacher was a Miss Short, who married during the holidays and came back the next term as Mrs Low, or maybe it was the other way around, I forget.)

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One of the greatest examples of nominative determinism is Donald J. Trump. He is a walking card game who literally likes to trump everyone, especially those countries who have no cards to play with. I win, you lose, end of story. If he had been called Donald Consensus, we wouldn’t be in this mess.

Funnily enough, he shares his Donaldry with his Vice President, who was actually born James Donald Bowman but changed it...