And no-one will begrudge him his celebrations after he landed the Euro Players Tour Championship (EPTC) 1 title with a 4-3 win against Anthony Hamilton in Germany on Sunday.
The 21-year-old showed some impressive form to win this prize and his biggest success of the weekend probably came in the semi-finals when he beat former World Champion Shaun Murphy 4-2.
On route to the last four, he also defeated Jack Lisowski, Andrew Pagett, Anthony McGill, Peter Ebdon and Michael Judge.
While it's important younger players enjoy their triumphs as much as they dissect their defeats, this win has to be the start of progression for Trump. It has to be the moment he kicks on.
No-one can deny the Bristol potter is a massive potential talent. We've heard it all before, and I for one, am getting bored of it. Talent is one thing, accomplishments is strictly another.
And Trump himself knows he must start to distinguish the difference, if he is ever to be remembered as one of the sport's greats.
Trump has shown glimpses of real quality over the last couple of seasons. The kind of class that suggest he could by now have earned a place in the top 16.
Some of the sport's top pundits even predicted he'd be a top 8 player by now.
But we need to stop talking about his potential and start seeing more from him at the major ranking events.
This weekend he has again shown what he CAN do. But he needs to do this more consistently on the bigger stage.
So, I think it's about time Trump grabs this victory by the scruff of the neck and takes his form and confidence to Shanghai.
There's always a lot of attention on focus on how he performs when he qualifes for the bigger events. But in Shanghai more than perhaps before, people will be waiting, to see if he can build upon his achievements on Europe's mainland.
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