According to series director Katsuhiro Harada, he came up with the idea of including a character based off former United States president Donald Trump the same night he won the 2016 presidential election. He asked producer Michael Murray if there were no licensing fees for including characters based off the U.S. president, citing "a lot of buzz" around Trump as a reason for including him.

Both Harada and Murray then briefly discussed the character's fighting style and Rage Arts while in an Uber rental car in San Francisco the night of the election, until they eventually decided to scrap the idea entirely when their Uber driver became upset and started driving at speeds of 200 km/h while calling out "Fuck Donald Trump".