When Rep. Jerry Nadler bangs his gavel Wednesday morning, not only will he open the House Judiciary Committee’s impeachment hearings against President Donald Trump—he will also reopen a feud between the two men that dates back 35 years.

The fight began in early 1985, when Trump, then an up-and-coming real estate tycoon, paid $115 million for an abandoned rail yard on Manhattan’s West Side and unveiled plans to turn its 76 acres into the largest development in all New York City: six 75-story high-rises holding 8,000 apartments and 10,000 parking spaces, a massive shopping mall, TV studios, and—looming above it all—a 150-story skyscraper, where he would live on the top floor, above the clouds. The complex would be called Television City.

Standing in the way of this gargantuan project was a group of neighborhood activists and celebrities. Nadler was their state assemblyman, and he led the protest against Television City—a role that he continued playing after he was elected to Congress in 1992. A crucial part of Trump’s plan involved relocating a stretch of the West Side Highway, which would otherwise obstruct views of the Hudson River. The move, estimated to cost more than $300 million, would require federal funding. From his new perch in Washington, Nadler did all he could to block the subsidy.

Trump fought back, railing at Nadler in the local media, especially in the two main tabloids, the New York Post and the Daily News, calling him “stupid,” “dumb,” and—just as he now lampoons his foes as “Sleepy Joe” or “Shifty Schiff”—“Fat Jerry.” (Nadler weighed more than 300 pounds at the time; he later slimmed down through surgery.)