Trump says Democrats are plotting a 'coup.' These 8 real-life military takeovers show what coups are really like.

Military coups are "business as usual" in Thailand, Eugenie Merieu wrote in The Atlantic earlier this year. In fact, since 1932, Thailand has averaged one coup every seven years.

Although the coup that brought Prime Minister General Prayut Chan-o-cha to power in 2014 was without violence, that hasn't been true of previous coups; according to Merieu, past coups, specifically the ones in 2010, 1992, and 1976 resulted in a combined hundreds of protesters being killed by the army for protesting against the government in power.

Although an apparent 2016 military coup failed against President Recep Tayyip Erdogan's government, Turkey is no stranger to military coups. Coups in 1960 and 1980 resulted in mass arrests and executions; between a coup in 1971 and 1980, instability reigned, inflation skyrocketed, and thousands were assassinated. While the coup of 1980 did bring about some stability, hundreds of thousands were arrested, and many were executed or forcibly disappeared, Al-Jazeera reports.

Gen. Abdel Fattah al-Sisi and the Egyptian army overthrew Egypt's first democratically-elected president, Mohamed Morsi, in 2013. Morsi was sent to military prison, and died in court earlier this year. Hundreds of injuries and several deaths were reported in the protests that followed the coup.

Mass protests — and arrests — have rocked Egypt in recent days, with more than 2,000 arrested, and Egyptians protesting corruption in Sisi's government.

Lt. Gen. Abdel Fattah Abdelrahman Burhan eventually took over after al-Bashir was ousted, promising a transition to civilian rule over a period of two years.

"Prior to Bashir's fall, the economy was in a free fall, which facilitated mass, consistent and sustained popular protests against the regime," Allen told Insider.

"The protesters were united across ethnic, tribal, and religious lines and they were peaceful, which made it more difficult for the security apparatus to repress them. The protestors even staged sit-ins in front of military headquarters in order to try get the military on their side."

Although one faction of the security forces killed over 100 protesters in June, "most have accepted [rule by the security forces] as an upgrade over Bashir."

Source: BBC

General Augusto Pinochet overthrew democratically-elected President Salvador Allende, a Socialist. The CIA knew of the coup but didn't prevent it, concerned as they were about the rapid Socialist reforms sweeping through the country under Allende.

But the violence under the military junta started right away; survivor Carlos Reyes-Manzo told CNN, "The military immediately started shooting and killing people... And very soon they put fire to the Socialist Party headquarters," he said in 2013, on the 40th anniversary of the coup.

"That was the day, there was just shooting everywhere and killing everywhere."

Amin, Uganda's notoriously cruel dictator, took power in 1971 after becoming the most powerful military general in the country. He allied himself with fellow dictator Muammar Qaddafi, the former leader of Libya.

Amin's death squads sometimes forced people to bludgeon each other to death, or shot or dismembered them, according to his obituary in The New York Times. Amin was also anti-Semitic, and expelled Israelis from Uganda, and forced around 40,000 Ugandans of South Asian heritage to leave the country in the 1970s.

Amin came to power amid economic dissatisfaction, and promised to root out corruption, which partially explains his initial population. Plus, as Allen told Insider, the 1960s and '70s were "a different time."

"You had a lot more widespread support and acceptance of military coups, among both the local population and internationally, than you do now," he said.