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October 31, 1999: “Said Alice . . . ‘It’s The Stupidest Tea-Party I Ever Was At In All My Life’ ”

Shortly after Donald Trump declared his candidacy for the Reform Party’s presidential nomination, pledging to spend $100 million of his own money to win “the whole megillah” and naming Oprah Winfrey as his ideal running mate, Herblock drew Trump as the Mad Hatter at tea with Ross Perot, the party’s standard-bearer in the previous two elections, and Pat Buchanan, who would go on to claim the Reform Party nomination. Trump dropped out of the race in February of the next year, but not before raising one of the issues that would become the signature of his 2016 campaign for the White House: trade. One difference? Running against Buchanan, Trump made an issue of his opponent’s isolationism, particularly Buchanan’s comment that Nazi Germany wasn’t a credible threat to the United States. At the time, Trump declared of Buchanan “Look, he’s a Hitler lover. I guess he’s an anti-Semite. He doesn’t like the blacks, he doesn’t like the gays, it’s just incredible that anybody could embrace this guy.” This year, as white nationalists and anti-Semites have embraced the Trump campaign, Trump has expressed less concern about bias. –Alyssa Rosenberg



(The Herb Block Foundation)
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more: https://www.washingtonpost.com/news/act-four/wp/2016/11/01/how-legendary-washington-post-cartoonist-herblock-might-have-drawn-the-2016-election/