WI: Trump '80

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Since he's talked about running for decades, WI he'd decided to run in '80? Could he have beaten Reagen for the nomination? Could he beat Carter? Would his policies have been more/less what they are now, in ref trade? Would he have been as hostile to Iran? As friendly to Moscow?:eek::eek: (Would being that friendly to Moscow, alone, prevent the two WTC bombings?:eek::cool: Would it prevent the '80 Olympic boycott?)

Or is Trump winning in '80 pure ASB nonsense?
 

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Since he's talked about running for decades, WI he'd decided to run in '80? Could he have beaten Reagen for the nomination? Could he beat Carter? Would his policies have been more/less what they are now, in ref trade? Would he have been as hostile to Iran? As friendly to Moscow?:eek::eek: (Would being that friendly to Moscow, alone, prevent the two WTC bombings?:eek::cool: Would it prevent the '80 Olympic boycott?)

Or is Trump winning in '80 pure ASB nonsense?
Is he the same Trump as OTL 2015 ASAIK back then he was a Democrat so there would be no contest with Reagan. Carter was in the WH so that would mean that he, Carter decides not to run. Either way zero chance of getting elected
 
He also wouldn't be old enough. Born in 1946, and was only 34 in 1980. So barring some drastic change to the Constitution, Trump '80 isn't happening.
 

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So, basically Trump pulling a Clinton in 1992 and resides during the relatively prosperous 1992-2000 era?

He might get into sex scandal... And just outright admits it while saying that he didn't break any laws, technically...
 
Age and party politics aside, I don't think Trump in the 1980 or even 1988 had the kind of national profile that would make people take an automatic interest in him.

Early 80s, I think he was barely known outside of NYC. By '88, people people knew who he was, but I think he was just sort of a generic stand-in for "rich yuppie asshole". I don't recall the media of that era giving much prominence to anything he said about sociopolitical matters.

I never watched his Apprentice show, but my understanding is that is what really brought his actual personality to a nationwide audience, including flyover denizens who wouldn't normally care what some slick property developer in Manhattan thinks about anything.

Long and the short, if Trump runs in '88, it's only a slightly less laughable version of this real-life endeavour.
 
I did a DBWI about it a while ago based on a New Hampshire politician named Mike Dunbar pushing Trump to run for the GOP nomination in 1988. He would have been 42 and a long shot, but let’s say he gets it and squeezes out a win against Dukakis (one thing I can say about Trump - he would run one hell of a campaign.)

I wrote him as a single-minded President who cared only about the economy and grew it after the Reagan years by leaps and bounds - until it came crashing down as it did OTL on Bush. I also gave him a glaring weakness - he wanted nothing to do with foreign policy and didn’t get along with other foreign leaders, which, at the time, probably would have been mostly true.

Naturally, he was an easily-defeated one-term President.
 

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