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To be perfectly honest, it doesn't really make sense to define ideologies too tightly, because that's not how people think or movements works.
In a practical sense, one might label any "more right wing than even liberals" as fascists, aka, fascism is what happens when "ordinary liberals" are radicalised in favor of the status quo. Fascism becomes to liberalism what Communism is to socialism. Both ideologies seek to strike directly at the frontlines of class war and colonial war, just on opposite sides.
So in this sense, yeah, trump is easily fascist and has been fascist since his first term (I think people are kind of forgetting how quickly power was consolidated towards the capitalists during the first term). He never even pretended to give a shit about liberal ideology (and thus became hated) and directly worked towards empowering the bourgeoise and imperialists.