I remember in the early 1980’s I guess, I’d hear bits and pieces on TV about some rich real estate guy with gold toilets, etc. I didn’t care much because I figured he was just a really wealthy braggart.
Mid-late 1980’s I started to watch interviews with Trump. I recall changing my opinion of him, in that it seemed he wanted all Americans to have a higher level of prosperity, not just himself. I’d seen the beautiful cities in other countries in photos and TV, so I knew there were nice places. And since the USA was the greatest country of all, it seemed odd that we didn’t have safe clean cities, etc. He’d say that our tax money was going everywhere but here. I didn’t consider that in any sort of R/D light, but I was of the thought that it didn’t matter because all politicians were snakes.
I think it’s hard for younger people to see old footage and relate that to Trump in the present, as their opinions were formed somewhere in between early days and 2016. It must seem like just sound bites, but it did truly make me consider him as more than a billionaire playboy at the time.
Your points are valid.
I remember in the early 1980’s I guess, I’d hear bits and pieces on TV about some rich real estate guy with gold toilets, etc. I didn’t care much because I figured he was just a really wealthy braggart.
Mid-late 1980’s I started to watch interviews with Trump. I recall changing my opinion of him, in that it seemed he wanted all Americans to have a higher level of prosperity, not just himself. I’d seen the beautiful cities in other countries in photos and TV, so I knew there were nice places. And since the USA was the greatest country of all, it seemed odd that we didn’t have safe clean cities, etc. He’d say that our tax money was going everywhere but here. I didn’t consider that in any sort of R/D light, but I was of the thought that it didn’t matter because all politicians were snakes.
I think it’s hard for younger people to see old footage and relate that to Trump in the present, as their opinions were formed somewhere in between early days and 2016. It must seem like just sound bites, but it did truly make me consider him as more than a billionaire playboy at the time.