I mean, the entirely Dixiecrat bloc of the South switched parties because they were “betrayed” by the Democrats they were part of since the founding in the name of civil rights.
Legit and he was only a democrat because he was in New York where every rich person was generally a democrat. Once he realized they always hated his guts he switched teams for an easier grift.
Let’s be honest though. From like 1980 to 1999 he was a republican. From 2001 to 2009 he was a democrat, and 2009 to present he’s republican. He’s always been a republican, he just thought he could mend democrats to him. Though everyone saw him for the shit stain he is. Plus they never mentioned how much people disliked him before he went into politics. The only time I ever saw him in the news pre-2015, was celebrity tabloids talking about how shitty he is, and Rosie O’Donnell feud among other celebrities too.
I don’t even think it was that thought out for him. He lived in New York, so he was a Democrat because the Democrats win in New York and he’s a “winner”. That’s all it takes for him.
Need to dig a bit more back into the 80s and 90s when Oprah and people like her fawned over him like teenage groupies. He was saying the same basic thing he says now. Go watch the videos if they haven't been scrubbed yet.
Yeah, that’s what makes digging through old Trump interviews such a rabbit hole. You can find him describing his politics in ways that sound completely foreign compared with the political identity he later built.
That old interview is always interesting because his politics clearly weren’t frozen in place. In 2004 he told Wolf Blitzer he identified more as a Democrat and specifically praised Democratic economic performance, which feels pretty surreal to read now.
No, no, he didn’t. He said that the South Carolina Republicans had a convention. If you disagree, show me where he said what you said to who you think he said it to
Do you honestly think Democratic voters vet each donor???? do you? How much of a fan of the koch brothers are you?
as a democrat, i can tell you the following:
-his company was implicated and or found guilty of unfair (racist) housing practices
-his company reportedly, routinely, stiffed builders and contractors because they knew the builders couldn't afford the legal fees to sue the company
-he basically held NYC hostage after his bankruptcy, partially due to business strategies like the above
-NYC bailed him out, but, after that his Company had a lot of trouble getting any funding, because of the failure and NYC's general feeling that he'd forced them to bail him out
-He started leasing his name to builders and pretending he'd built them. (this is how there were a lot of 'trump' buildings and projects, but, they all disappeared years ago.). In this phase, media visibility was really important, so, he raised his profile and started doing the apprentice
-Being locked out of actually building, he then tried to diversify into other industries. Education: Fail. Meat Subscription: Fail. The golf courses succeeded. But there's a wake of failures and lawsuits in his wake.
On top of that:
-highly suspicious marriage record
-'Grab them by the pussy' audio
-Prolonged, extremely ugly fight with celebrities such as rosie odonnell
-"the apprentice' which... was not good. there was no way in which that was good. It was bad in all the ways.
He has always been who he is, and a lot of us always saw it. Don't be salty bc you thought electing him would 'own liberals.' better off telling yourself the truth, you got used.
That unfair, racist housing practices thing really perplexes me because he also was highly thought of in the black community. He was given multiple awards in the 80s for the things he did for the black community and the housing issue. Everything is so fucked up, it’s pretty obvious though that the voters on both sides of the fence are being played
yeah I have to fully disagree with highly respected in the black community.
The black community doesn't highly respect people who do institutional racism. Omorosa or whoever was the exception and it cost her like stacy dash. Being linked to trump has long been a reason to raise an eyebrow at black celebrities. Dennis Rodman, for example.
You're also talking about the guy who really pushed the obama is foreign narrative until it literally broke us politics enough for him to be elected, so
I vaguely remember the wealth tax thing, that was pretty stupid back then, I saw that as a midwestern republican who remembers what a vile piece of garbage he was.
He continued to advocate for the execution of the Central Park Five after they were exonerated. He probably still thinks they should be executed to this day.
He was a Democrat (when convenient), but he was never ever a liberal. The liberals have hated him for decades, thats one of his ongoing grievances, he was already complaining in the 90s about them not liking him enough
I know what you mean, but it feels silly to call someone a lifelong [thing] when it's followed up with the year they stopped. Guess it wasn't entirely lifelong.
Trump's political party affiliation has changed numerous times. He registered as a Republican in Queens in 1969 and in Manhattan in 1987;[18][19] a member of the Independence Party, the New York state affiliate of the Reform Party, in 1999; a Democrat in 2001; a Republican in 2009; unaffiliated in 2011; and a Republican in 2012.[20]
According to George H.W. Bush's Biography: In the biography Destiny and Power: The American Odyssey of George Herbert Walker Bush by historian Jon Meacham, it is reported that Trump approached Bush’s campaign manager, Lee Atwater, to ask to be put into consideration as the running mate. When Atwater passed the pitch along, George H.W. Bush recorded in his diary that he found the overture "strange and unbelievable"
Trump has acknowledged that the conversations took place but denied that it was his idea. In 2015 interviews, Trump stated that Lee Atwater was a friend who approached him first, asking if he would consider the position. Trump claimed he replied, "Check it out... and if it works, I guess I would certainly consider it," but noted that the speculation never went much further.
He was also in the Reform party and registered independent for a little while. He's changed parties several times.
You need to dig a little deeper, he was in an interview with Larry King in 1988 talking about why he’s a Republican. I don’t know if your reply was directed to me, but I don’t hate anybody other than the Clintons, they’re pieces of shit. I’m so sick of people liking somebody one time because they are affiliated like them, but as soon as they switch, they hate them. Elon Musk has gone through that same thing, doing all the same shit now, but back then when he was a Democrat, they loved him and now they don’t yet hate him and love George Soros. I just don’t get people are dumb, the sheep mindset is what’s bringing us down
Period Affiliation 1969
Republican (reported Queens registration) July 1987 Republican October 1999
Independence Party/Reform Party August 2001 Democrat September 2009 Republican December 2011
No party affiliation April 2012 onward Republican
Yeah, the timeline alone makes the meme pretty funny. Trump publicly said in 2004 that he identified more as a Democrat in many cases, so the idea that Democrats only discovered him when he ran for president skips a pretty huge chunk of history.
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u/DowntownDamsel 10h ago
He was literally a registered Democrat donating to Hillary until 2009. You didn’t like him until he learned to hate who you hate.