Flashback Trump Predicted His Own Presidency 31 Years Ago
To hear Democrats talk about President Donald Trump now, one would think he is nothing short
of evil incarnate, an authoritarian tyrant with racist tendencies who needs a �resistance�
movement to keep him in check.
But Democrats were singing an entirely different tune 30 years ago when they attempted to get
Trump to abandon Republicans and join the Democrat party, because they believed he projected
an image and touted a message that they wanted the party to adopt.
A Nov. 18, 1987, article from The New York Times detailed the efforts of congressional
Democrats to convince Trump to switch political parties, and also in retrospect revealed that
the future president predicted his own eventual electoral success at the time.
It all started with an official request to Trump, a registered Republican, from the Democratic
Congressional Campaign Committee to be the host of the DCCC�s 25th annual Democratic
Congressional Dinner and fundraising gala in March of 1988, as well as the request that
he switch political parties.
Trump responded at the time that he would consider hosting the Democrat dinner, but
noted that a change in parties would be rather unlikely.
Of the request for Trump to host and serve as chairman of the annual gala, Democrat Arkansas
Rep. Beryl Anthony, who was then-chair of the DCCC, stated, �He�s young, dynamic,
successful,� not to mention, �the message Trump has been preaching is a Democratic message.�
�What we were doing was talking among ourselves and looking for someone who is young and who
would be good at politics but never especially involved in politics before,� explained
Anthony, who added that Trump fit the archetype of a Republican-voting business leader who
hadn�t been treated right by the GOP and �should be a Democrat.�
House Democrats enlisted the help of Senate Democrats in their efforts too, as then-Massachusetts
Sen. John Kerry called Trump to extend the invitation, with a Kerry spokesman telling
reporters that, �(Kerry) sees Trump as an independent thinker who can put this thing
together.�
Trump had caught the eye of Democrats, among many others, with a speech he had delivered
in New Hampshire during the Republican primary, when he talked about many of the same issues
he has addressed in recent years.
It was at that time that Trump had insisted he wasn�t a candidate for president in 1988,
but stated, �I believe that if I did run for president, I�d win.�
As we now know, that prediction from Trump 31 years ago turned out to be quite true.
Ultimately, Trump declined the invitation to chair and host the annual Democrat dinner,
according to a Nov. 27, 1987, article from The Washington Post.
That article was full of barbed criticisms of Trump � though it was downright friendly
compared to what the media has to say about Trump today. And in a way, the snark in the
piece was a grudging compliment:
�He is, after all, an archetypal figure, a modern-day Gatsby. Since recent events suggest
that the nation is reliving the let-�er-rip, get-rich-quick, boom-and-bust, glamor-and-greed
decade of the Roaring Twenties, who else but Trump could fill the hunger for a new political
icon?�
While the writer of the piece was obviously attacking Trump � no one quotes a �Doonesbury�
cartoon about a Republican intending it as a compliment � it was also clear that even
then Trump was a larger-than-life figure in American politics, and he was hardly even
trying.
Thirty years later, he did try, and try hard. And that prediction from the New Hampshire
primary came true � just like he said. What do you think of Trump's prediction 31
years ago that he would win the presidency if he actually ran? Scroll down to comment
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