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Doctor Jack

(3,072 posts)
Tue Aug 30, 2016, 10:34 PM Aug 2016

Did Trump Used to Act More Normal?

I remember in 2004, he endorsed John Kerry and I remember quite a few interviews that he gave during that time, and I don't remember him being batshit insane like he is now. During my early college days, I used to listen to Howard Stern in the mornings (i know, i'm not proud of it) and right before the election Trump was on and I remember it being a fairly normal conversation. There were times 10-15 years ago where he would pop up in interviews and I don't remember him ever seeming like a nutjob. In fact, I remember in 2008, being surprised that he endorsed McCain because all I remembered of him is that he hated bush and he had a tv show that I never watched. It seemed out of place, at least to me at the time, that he would be so anti-Obama.

Maybe I wasn't paying attention, Trump was never really on my radar until he started going nuts over the birther issues but I remember him being a fairly typical person years ago. Not presidential material by any means but not a complete psychopath like we see now. Has he always been a massively racist asshole or has he really lost his mind in the past few years?

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Did Trump Used to Act More Normal? (Original Post) Doctor Jack Aug 2016 OP
Used to be a democrat, then he became a birther emulatorloo Aug 2016 #1
He has always been racist.. HipChick Aug 2016 #6
Yep emulatorloo Aug 2016 #8
+1, this is whats new to me.. i thought it was just bitherism uponit7771 Aug 2016 #10
Not renting to AA's, and AA's were removed in his casinos..racism not birthism.. HipChick Aug 2016 #11
He has always been a little looney, but..... imanamerican63 Aug 2016 #2
Oh sure... 63splitwindow Aug 2016 #3
The KKK is in his genes, just like Dad. Obama was only half white, not good enough..n/t monmouth4 Aug 2016 #4
So he was ok with some democratic ideas but as soon as it was from a black man... Doctor Jack Aug 2016 #5
Seems that way to me..n/t monmouth4 Aug 2016 #7
Yes. He was alway a little bit crazy, KMOD Aug 2016 #9
trump in 1980: Mc Mike Aug 2016 #12
His personality didn't change Johonny Aug 2016 #13

emulatorloo

(44,121 posts)
1. Used to be a democrat, then he became a birther
Tue Aug 30, 2016, 10:36 PM
Aug 2016

No turning back once you've accepted birtherism

Always looney though

imanamerican63

(13,787 posts)
2. He has always been a little looney, but.....
Tue Aug 30, 2016, 10:36 PM
Aug 2016

He wasn't in the news, like his is today and now he has an audience to hear his rhetoric!

Doctor Jack

(3,072 posts)
5. So he was ok with some democratic ideas but as soon as it was from a black man...
Tue Aug 30, 2016, 10:40 PM
Aug 2016

...his closeted racist brain was broken?

 

KMOD

(7,906 posts)
9. Yes. He was alway a little bit crazy,
Tue Aug 30, 2016, 11:04 PM
Aug 2016

but he went completely off the deep end when President Obama was elected.

Mc Mike

(9,114 posts)
12. trump in 1980:
Wed Aug 31, 2016, 08:43 AM
Aug 2016

"On June 6th, 1980, the Times reported that the developer, who had been enjoying tens of millions of dollars in tax abatements, demolished the Bonwit Teller Building to make room for a “$100 million 62-story bronze-colored glass tower.” Two stone bas-relief sculptures on the building’s facade “that had been sought with enthusiasm by the Metropolitan Museum of Art” were “smashed by jackhammers” on Trump’s orders, without warning. Enter “Trump spokesman John Barron,” a “Vice president of the Trump firm” who told the Times that they “don’t know what happened to it” but three independent appraisers had supposedly decided that the sculptures were “without artistic merit” and the Met wouldn’t want them anyway. (The Met, of course, was “flabbergasted” by this.) At the same time, the Associated Press attributed these quotes to a different “Vice president of the Trump firm”—someone named “Donald Baron.”
This “Donald Baron” appears in a small batch of archived local newspapers that reprinted the AP wire that day. The discrepancy didn’t stick out, the alias didn’t stick and in 1990 court case, Trump would come out as “John Barron” (his favorite alias), making that shady interaction with the Met shadier. "


http://gawker.com/donald-baron-is-donald-trumps-worst-alias-yet-1776905874


trump in '83:

http://www.nydailynews.com/news/politics/donald-trump-posed-john-barron-times-article-1.2636536

Johonny

(20,848 posts)
13. His personality didn't change
Wed Aug 31, 2016, 11:02 AM
Aug 2016

He's always been a self promoting, thin skinned, know nothing, jerk. He was very good at getting good press to cover up his shady business dealings and appealing to people. He worked the media with a lot of skill.

Why does he feel different now? I think going full bore into the FOX news bubble after Obama was elected does ruined his brain. He was good at faking it but now its clear he's used to releasing his inner most ID because that's all they do at FOX. FOX news does destroy your brain. I think of it as Trump showing the real Trump rather than Trump changing. There are countless stories demonstrating behind the fake Trump brand he displayed through the 80s until 2008, that this is the real Trump. This is the guy that circled his finger length in gold sharpy. He's always been like this, he just used to be better at hiding his inner most ID from the press.

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