{"id":2951,"date":"2026-07-08T10:07:25","date_gmt":"2026-07-08T10:07:25","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/nextaddressamerica.com\/?p=2951"},"modified":"2026-07-08T10:07:25","modified_gmt":"2026-07-08T10:07:25","slug":"the-1987-warning-sign-about-trump-everyone-missed","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/nextaddressamerica.com\/?p=2951","title":{"rendered":"The 1987 warning sign about Trump everyone missed"},"content":{"rendered":"<div>\n<p><em>Editor&#8217;s Note: This article has been updated to correct a typo about President Trump and the 2020 election.<\/em><\/p>\n<p>Read more <a href=\"https:\/\/nextaddressamerica.com\/?p=2949\">Conservative mocks Mark Kelly for being in love with his wife<\/a><\/p>\n<p>President Donald Trump won the Republican nomination in 2016, 2020 and 2024, prevailing except in the 2020 election \u2014 yet according to a recent report, he first developed a thirst for the presidency in 1987. The catalyst, it appears, was a desire to promote his then-new book \u201cThe Art of the Deal,\u201d which was ghostwritten by journalist Tony Schwartz. <\/p>\n<p>\u201cAstonishingly, Trump\u2019s thirst for recognition, and Random House\u2019s desperation, came together to create a publicity stunt which now haunts us all: A campaign for people to think Trump was running for president,\u201d reported The Daily Beast\u2019s Michael Daly on Tuesday about Trump\u2019s life in the summer of 1987. \u201cIt began when the publicity team was meeting in Trump Tower, where fakery was never far away (Trump always said it had 68 stories; it actually only has 58). A secretary reported that his office had been contacted by a New England furniture maker with a big idea.\u201d<\/p>\n<p>Daly continued that Trump was recruited by a New Hampshire Republican activist, Mike Dunbar, to run for president. While initially the goal was merely to help raise Trump\u2019s national profile, Dunbar convinced him that he actually could be a great president, and Trump began to spend money to pack auditoriums and otherwise give the media the impression that he was a serious candidate.<\/p>\n<p>This culminated in a series of Sept. 2, 1987 full-page ads that Trump published in The New York Times, The Boston Globe and The Washington Post advocating for an isolationist foreign policy quite different from the neoconservatism being implemented by President Ronald Reagan.<\/p>\n<p>\u201cFor decades, Japan and other nations have been taking advantage of the United States,\u201d Trump wrote. \u201cWhy are these nations not paying the United States for the human lives and billions of dollars we are losing to protect their interests?\u201d<\/p>\n<p>In a harsh language with which Americans would soon become intimately familiar, Trump claimed that \u201cthe world is laughing at America\u2019s politicians as we protect ships we don\u2019t own, carrying oil we don\u2019t need, destined for allies who won\u2019t help\u201d and would face a \u201ccatastrophe\u201d without better foreign policy leadership. He also described Iran as \u201ca horrible, horrible country,\u201d suggesting that America \u201cgo in and take over some of their oil.\u201d<\/p>\n<p>Read more <a href=\"https:\/\/nextaddressamerica.com\/?p=2948\">Beyond Trump: The competition for \u2018Worst Politician in America\u2019 just got ruthless<\/a><\/p>\n<p>Ultimately, Daly found that Trump became addicted to the attention he received, and speculated that his need for it never stopped.<\/p>\n<p>\u201cWhile seeking ever more power as a ruler, he has himself been ruled by an addict\u2019s insatiable need for more, more, more,\u201d Daly wrote. \u201cHe who once stood outside Trump Tower hoping to be recognized has been affixing his name and face everywhere possible. Our history is being governed by someone who exists only in the instant.\u201d<\/p>\n<p>He continued, \u201cAnd, as we celebrated America\u2019s 250th birthday, Trump sought to supplant the nation as the center of attention.\u201d<\/p>\n<p>Regardless of Trump\u2019s ultimate goals, \u201cThe Art of the Deal\u201d singlehandedly transformed him from a local celebrity in the New York City area into a national one. It also gave him the image of the ultimate dealmaker, as exemplified by a key passage from his book.<\/p>\n<p>\u201cMy style of deal-making is quite simple and straightforward,\u201d Trump wrote in \u201cThe Art of the Deal.\u201d \u201cI aim very high, and then I just keep pushing and pushing and pushing to get what I\u2019m after. Sometimes I settle for less than I sought, but in most cases I still end up with what I want.\u201d<\/p>\n<p>Read more <a href=\"https:\/\/nextaddressamerica.com\/?p=2947\">Trumpy church torn apart over \u2018dumbest\u2019 political war<\/a><\/p>\n<\/div>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Editor&#8217;s Note: This article has been updated to correct a typo about President Trump and the 2020 election.President Donald Trump won the Republican nomination in 2016, 2020 and 2024, prevailing except in the 2020 election \u2014 yet according to a recent report, he first developed a thirst for the presi&#8230;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":2950,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[2],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-2951","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-news"],"yoast_head":"<!-- This site is optimized with the Yoast SEO plugin v27.6 - 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