What Are Logical Fallacies?

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In this video, we will look at various fallacies by using Trump's tweets as examples. Keep in mind that in some of the tweets, more than one fallacy has been committed, but I’ve highlighted only one type of fallacy per tweet.
If you’re interested in seeing a complete list of Trump’s ad hominem attacks, a link is provided below:
Not every entry is an ad hominem attack, but if an ad hominem attack has been made on Trump’s twitter account, it should be there.

Citations:
“Things have come to a pass where lying sounds like truth, truth like lying.”
Adorno, Theodor. Minima Moralia: Reflections on a Damaged Life. Verso, 2005, p. 108.

“Fallacies are argument structures which appear to be correct and convincing, but are actually wrong.”
Jacquette, Dale. A Companion to Philosophical Logic. Blackwell Publishing Ltd., 2006, p. 763.

“By thus abandoning reason, they split mankind into friends and foes, into those who stand near and those who stand far, those who speak the untranslatable language of our own emotions and passions and those whose tongue is not our tongue. Once we have done this, political equalitarianism becomes practically impossible.”
Popper, Karl. The Open Society and Its Enemies, Vol. II. George Routledge & Sons, ltd., 1945, p. 223.

The fallacies covered in this video:
1. Argumentum ad hominem,
2. Argumentum ad populum (appeal to common belief)
3. False dilemma
4. Argumentum in terrorem (appeal to fear)
5. Appeal to common sense
6. Argumentum ex silentio (argument from silence)
7. Argumentum ad baculum (appeal to the stick)
8. Appeal to probability
9. Argumentum ad verecundiam (appeal to authority)
10. Proof by assertion
11. Historian's fallacy
12. Counterfactual fallacy
13. Argumentum ad lapidem (appeal to the stone)
14. Poisoning the well
15. Notable Effort
16. False conjunction (package-deal fallacy)
17. Equivocation
18. Whataboutism
19. Retrospective determinism
20. Subverted support