Donald Trump Has Wanted To ‘Make America Great Again’
For decades, Donald Trump both toyed with and coyly denied any interest in pursuing the presidency until his expectation shattering campaign of the 2016 election.
But if you go back and canada goose outlet edmonton watch old clips and by old, we mean decades old you hear a young Donald Trump sounding very much like the current Trump. does globally.
Trump does something else in these interviews. Talking to Playboy magazine canada goose outlet belgium in 1990, for example, he accurately predicts where his strongest support would canada goose outlet store uk come from should he ever decide to run for office the working class.
Here’s journalist Glenn Plaskin, who wrote the Playboy story, recalling what Trump said when asked who would support him for the White House: “When I walk down the street, those cabbies start yelling out their canada goose jacket outlet store window.. The working guy would elect me; they like me.”
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“I was tired, and I think a lot of other people are tired of watching other people ripping off the United States. This is a great country. They laugh at us. Behind our backs, they laugh at us because of our own stupidity. Our leaders what we have, we have a Persian Gulf situation today.. Billions and billions are paid getting oil for Japan, and they are paying nothing for it, essentially they’re paying nothing for it.””I believe it’s very important that you have free trade, but we don’t have free trade right now.”
And Trump even leveled a cryptic allegation against former New York Mayor Ed Koch:
“I think, probably, over the next period of time, something’s going to come out where he will not be the mayor of the city of New York hopefully much longer.”
The New York Times noted in Koch’s obituary in 2013 that he “was a bachelor who lived for politics. Perhaps inevitably there were rumors, some promoted by his enemies, that he was gay. But no proof was offered, and, except for two affirmations in radio interviews that he was heterosexual, he responded to the rumors with silence or a rebuke. ‘Whether I am straight or gay or bisexual is nobody’s business but mine,’ he wrote in ‘Citizen Koch,’ his 1992 autobiography.”
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Back then, Trump was critical of Japan, and this criticism echoes the way he talks today about NATO. He told Oprah Winfrey:
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“Kuwait, they live like kings. The poorest person in Kuwait, they live like kings. And yet they’re not paying. We make it possible for them to sell their oil. Why aren’t they paying us 25 percent of what they’re making? It’s a joke.”
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“I just probably wouldn’t do it, Oprah. I probably wouldn’t, but I do get tired of seeing what’s happening with this country, and if it got so bad, I would never want to rule it out totally, because I really am tired of seeing what’s happening with this country, how we’re really making other people live like kings, and we’re not.”
More about a presidential run and winning. He even uses his signature “believe me:”
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Here he canada goose outlet nyc spoke to Letterman just after the presidential election. He said he thought Bush would win and thinks he’ll do a good job. ally into canada goose stockists uk an economic boogeyman:
“We are living in very precarious times. If you look at what certain countries are doing to this country, such as Japan. I mean, they’ve totally taken cheap canada goose advantage of the country.. I’m talking about the [trade] deficits. They come and they talk about free trade. They dump the cars and the VCRs and everything else. We defend Japan for virtually nothing, which is hard to believe. So when I see all that I get very nervous, but I think George Bush is going to do a great job, and he’s going to straighten hopefully he’ll straighten it out.”
canada goose store Letterman then wondered aloud whether there was “any way a guy like you could go broke.” The crowd gave a huge laugh, and Trump said he would like to think he could weather any storm. But little did he or Letterman know that just three years later, Trump would file his first of four bankruptcies over two decades. Trump seems to preview a version of what would eventually become his 2016 “Make America Great Again” campaign slogan. canada goose store
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