2016 Postmortem
In reply to the discussion: "The Truth Comes Out As CNN Admits They Are Going Easy On Donald Trump" [View all]Kathy M
(1,242 posts)" Seven years after Trump's Rona Barrett interview, in the spring of 1987, Michael Dunbar, a furniture maker in Portsmouth, New Hampshire, tried to convince Trump that he was the man who could turn things around. The Republican Party activist had become fascinated by news reports about Trump's business acumen and personality. He sent out mailers encouraging Republicans to "draft Trump." Friends told him the idea was laughable, but Dunbar invited Trump to speak to the local Rotary Club. Trump, intrigued, invited Dunbar to discuss the idea at Trump Tower that summer.
The two devised a plan: Trump would fly his helicopter to a New Hampshire airfield, speak to the Rotary crowd at Yoken's restaurant, and hold a news conference."
"A few weeks later, Trump took out full-page ads opining on foreign policy in three major newspapers. "There's nothing wrong with America's Foreign Defense Policy that a little backbone can't cure," he wrote in the ads, which cost a combined $95,000. He questioned why the U.S. continued to provide military funds to Japan and Saudi Arabia, and implored, "Let's not let our great country be laughed at anymore."
The image of the rest of the world laughing at U.S. leaders would become an enduring theme in Trump's political rhetoric. This time, it came in the seventh year of Ronald Reagan's presidency, just weeks before the publication of Trump's book The Art of the Deal, in which Trump called Reagan a smooth performer but questioned whether "there's anything beneath that smile."
Rest at http://theweek.com/articles/637675/donald-trumps-decadeslong-obsession-being-president
At Link below is YouTube video of 2 interviews at the 1988 Republican convention with Donald Trump . First interview is with Larry King the second interview is with Chris Wallace
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From the 1 st article Don is using the same theme then as now ...... NO he should not have any bar set lower at all .