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In his defense he has been unlikable for the entirety of many people's lives
When folks claimed, in 2015, that no one hated trump before he ran for president (also forgetting he ran a sweaty napkin of a campaign years prior) I always loved playing a couple songs by the Coup.
They had someone pretending to be him rap in one from 1994 (the joke being that he's hated even by other rich assholes): https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=XrSk8Um2Sso (lyrics here: https://genius.com/The-coup-pimps-free-stylin-at-the-fortune-500-club-lyrics)
And in a powerful line in a track of their 2001 album: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=84bJG5qj96w (lyrics here: https://genius.com/The-coup-ghetto-manifesto-lyrics)
Of all the absurd claims that Trump supporters regularly make that's one of the most absurd. Donald Trump hates New York because the NYC elites didn't accept him as one of their own. The dude was a social pariah that had to resort to crashing parties because he'd never actually get an invite. Even the average New Yorker on the street has known since the '80s that he's nothing but a silver-spooned fame seeking circus clown.
In the late '80s and early 90s, Spy magazine did an annual "Top 10 Worst People" issue and Donald Trump always made it. Hilariously/depressingly each entry had a "mitigating factor" - Trump's was always "at least he's not in politics".
Yes, I barely paid attention to such things, and I remember many people dunking on this asshole back in the 80s. I think Stern had him on later because just so many people hate this stuffed shirt daddy's boy long, long before he ran in 2015.
I remember talking about him at work back in 2008 and people were shitting on him.
I've hated Donald Trump since he ruined our Christmas Eve in 1989.
When I was young, we had a family tradition of buying a new board game every year for Christmas. It was the one gift we would open as a family on Christmas Eve, so we'd have something new and fun to do together for the evening. In 1989, Milton Bradley released Trump: The Game. My older brother, who has always been interested in ways to get rich, was a fan of Donald Trump at the time (he got better), and insisted that we get the game that year. It was awful. We played it once and I don't think we ever opened the box again. It was somehow simultaneously too confusing and too simplistic to be fun.
I thought this was going to go in a different direction. I thought you were going to say that he ruined Christmas because he didn't pay for work performed by one of your parents. It was a thing! People in South Jersey used to hate him because of that. Many of them now love him and somehow seem to have forgotten the damage he did in the '90s.
Why do people work for people like that? I have a standing policy, you back charge or pay late and we are done professionally. I got one customer at work who threatened a back charge, didn't but threatened it, every single quote to them gets a 300% adder and I copy every department head. I call it the back-charge adder.
They didn't know that he wasn't going to pay them.
I'll freely admit my reasons for hating him back then were petty and childish. But in my defense, I was a child 🤣
Oh, God. I asked for that game as well and unfortunately got it. Worst board game I've ever played. Thought it would be close to Monopoly... or even Hotels which also came out in the 80s and was decent. Couldn't be more wrong. I think I still have it in my childhood closet. I would sell it on eBay, but I think I'm just gonna toss it into the garbage... while also letting the pieces fall out so no one else can play it. He's been grifting people his whole life.
I love referencing this Golden Girls clip: https://youtu.be/rkh_Ig7JLLA?si=bFJ9khRA1XHH22qf
"You are bright. You are charming. You are the anti-Trump!"
Trump was the inspiration for alternate-1985 Biff Tannen in Back to the Future II.
Trump ran as a Democrat in the early years. People love to forget that little nugget
Also, he just got finished fucking already-impovershed Atlantic City when he started running.
I think a great many people knew he was a gigantic douchebag in the 80s. People in the region - even sooner; probably knew in the 70s. It was clear he was a total asshat.
I remember seeing him in Home Alone: Lost in New York. I screamed at Kevin not to talk to creepy strangers.
Fun fact: Donald Trump is the only cast member of Home Alone 2: Lost in New York to be impeached twice by the US House of Representatives
That was fun!
Yeah, as a French kid I was blissfully unaware of who Donald Trump was, the cameo flew over my head and I found this scene pretty weird.
I'm American, it still flew over my head as a kid too. I thought he was the hotel manager lmao.
He's what your people might call
les incompétents