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Related: Editorials & Other Articles, Issue Forums, Alliance Forums, Region ForumsDonald Trump Angled for Soviet Posting in 1980s, Says Nobel Prize Winner
Evidently Donald has always been Donald. Short attention span and grandiose ideas.
In 1986, the future president met with one of the few Americans who knew Mikhail Gorbachev, seeking information about the USSR's new leader and revealing plans to ask Ronald Reagan to post him to Moscow.
Donald Trump, in the mid-1980s, aggressively pursued an official government post to the USSR, according to a Nobel Peace Prize winner with whom Trump interacted at the time.
"He already had Russia mania in 1986, 31 years ago," asserts Bernard Lown, a Boston-area cardiologist known for inventing the defibrillator and sharing the 1985 Nobel Peace Prize with a top Soviet physician in recognition of their efforts to promote denuclearization. Lown, now 95 and retired in Newton, Mass., tells The Hollywood Reporter that Trump sought and secured a meeting with him in 1986 to solicit information about Mikhail Gorbachev. (Gorbachev had become the USSR's head of state and met with Lown the year before.) During this meeting, Lown says, the fast-rising businessman disclosed that he would be reaching out to then-president Ronald Reagan to try to secure an official post to the USSR in order to negotiate a nuclear disarmament deal on behalf of the United States, a job for which Trump felt he was the only one fit.
"He said to me, 'I hear you met with Gorbachev, and you had a long interview with him, and you're a doctor, so you have a good assessment of who he is,'" Lown recalls. "So I asked, 'Why would you want to know?' And he responded, 'I intend to call my good friend Ronnie,' meaning Reagan, 'to make me a plenipotentiary ambassador for the United States with Gorbachev.' Those are the words he used. And he said he would go to Moscow and he'd sit down with Gorbachev, and then he took his thumb and he hit the desk and he said, 'And within one hour the Cold War would be over!' I sat there dumbfounded. 'Who is this self-inflated individual? Is he sane or what?'"
The White House did not respond to a request for comment.
More: http://www.hollywoodreporter.com/news/donald-trump-angled-soviet-posting-1980s-says-nobel-prize-winner-1006312
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Donald Trump Angled for Soviet Posting in 1980s, Says Nobel Prize Winner (Original Post)
MelissaB
May 2017
OP
Right, just like he's the only one who can create peace in the Middle East.
smirkymonkey
May 2017
#6
underpants
(182,826 posts)1. A nuclear disarmament deal??? Only he was qualified??
MelissaB
(16,420 posts)4. I know. Right? Evidently he's always been the way he is now.
Dale Neiburg
(698 posts)5. Well, not *quite* the same.
According to Lown he was able to use words like "plenipotentiary."
Achilleaze
(15,543 posts)2. freaking republicans and their Draft-Dodger-in-Chief
selling out America to the Acts of War* being perpetrated against the USA by he freaking evil empire** of russia.
disgusting betrayal of America by the republicans
* per dick cheney
** per ronald reagan
dalton99a
(81,515 posts)3. He should have moved his ass to Russia
smirkymonkey
(63,221 posts)6. Right, just like he's the only one who can create peace in the Middle East.
What a megalomaniaical gasbag! He really thinks he is all-powerful. It's such a joke!
Greybnk48
(10,168 posts)7. Or what. n/t