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"Anyone who thinks my story is anywhere near over is sadly mistaken"

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“Anyone who thinks my story is anywhere near over is sadly mistaken” is less a sentence than a campaign poster in disguise: a blunt declaration of permanence. Trump frames his public life as “my story,” not a term from politics or policy but from entertainment, where the point is the ongoing series and the cliffhanger ending. The intent is to preempt the obituary cycle that haunts fallen celebrities and defeated candidates alike. It’s also a warning shot to rivals and skeptics: don’t bet on my exit, don’t relax, don’t move on.

The subtext is grievance and stamina braided together. “Anyone who thinks” casts critics as presumptuous and naive, while “sadly mistaken” adds a smirk of superiority, as if their doubt is not merely wrong but emotionally pathetic. It’s classic Trump positioning: the world as an arena of winners who refuse closure and losers who crave it. He’s not arguing legitimacy; he’s asserting inevitability.

Context matters because “over” is doing heavy lifting. For Trump, endings are unacceptable because they imply judgment: electoral defeat, legal peril, aging, fading relevance. This line refuses the premise that there’s a final chapter governed by institutions or consensus. Instead, it re-centers authority in his own narration. The power move is simple: if politics is storytelling, then the person who controls the plot controls the crowd. And the crowd, in Trump’s model, is the real lever of power.

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Trump, Donald. (n.d.). Anyone who thinks my story is anywhere near over is sadly mistaken. FixQuotes. https://fixquotes.com/quotes/anyone-who-thinks-my-story-is-anywhere-near-over-30835/

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Trump, Donald. "Anyone who thinks my story is anywhere near over is sadly mistaken." FixQuotes. Accessed February 2, 2026. https://fixquotes.com/quotes/anyone-who-thinks-my-story-is-anywhere-near-over-30835/.

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"Anyone who thinks my story is anywhere near over is sadly mistaken." FixQuotes, https://fixquotes.com/quotes/anyone-who-thinks-my-story-is-anywhere-near-over-30835/. Accessed 2 Feb. 2026.

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Donald Trump (born June 14, 1946) is a Businessman from USA.

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