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Doctor Jack

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Tue Aug 30, 2016, 10:34 PM Aug 2016

Did Trump Used to Act More Normal? [View all]

I remember in 2004, he endorsed John Kerry and I remember quite a few interviews that he gave during that time, and I don't remember him being batshit insane like he is now. During my early college days, I used to listen to Howard Stern in the mornings (i know, i'm not proud of it) and right before the election Trump was on and I remember it being a fairly normal conversation. There were times 10-15 years ago where he would pop up in interviews and I don't remember him ever seeming like a nutjob. In fact, I remember in 2008, being surprised that he endorsed McCain because all I remembered of him is that he hated bush and he had a tv show that I never watched. It seemed out of place, at least to me at the time, that he would be so anti-Obama.

Maybe I wasn't paying attention, Trump was never really on my radar until he started going nuts over the birther issues but I remember him being a fairly typical person years ago. Not presidential material by any means but not a complete psychopath like we see now. Has he always been a massively racist asshole or has he really lost his mind in the past few years?

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