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Related: Editorials & Other Articles, Issue Forums, Alliance Forums, Region ForumsDid 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?
emulatorloo
(44,121 posts)No turning back once you've accepted birtherism
Always looney though
HipChick
(25,485 posts)Birtherism just brought it out in the open
uponit7771
(90,336 posts)HipChick
(25,485 posts)imanamerican63
(13,787 posts)He wasn't in the news, like his is today and now he has an audience to hear his rhetoric!
63splitwindow
(2,657 posts)monmouth4
(9,697 posts)Doctor Jack
(3,072 posts)...his closeted racist brain was broken?
monmouth4
(9,697 posts)KMOD
(7,906 posts)but he went completely off the deep end when President Obama was elected.
Mc Mike
(9,114 posts)"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 buildings facade that had been sought with enthusiasm by the Metropolitan Museum of Art were smashed by jackhammers on Trumps orders, without warning. Enter Trump spokesman John Barron, a Vice president of the Trump firm who told the Times that they dont know what happened to it but three independent appraisers had supposedly decided that the sculptures were without artistic merit and the Met wouldnt 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 firmsomeone named Donald Baron.
This Donald Baron appears in a small batch of archived local newspapers that reprinted the AP wire that day. The discrepancy didnt stick out, the alias didnt 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)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.