Ever wonder how the notion of a President Trump got started in the first place? You can thank a GOP activist named Mike Dunbar for hatching the idea. Dunbar, from New Hampshire, wasn’t exactly thrilled with his party’s slate of White House hopefuls in the summer of 1987. Vice President Bush and Senate Minority Leader Bob Dole of Kansas? “Those guys are duds,” Dunbar told the Associated Press in an interview at the time.
Thus, the Draft Trump movement was born. “I figure Trump has what it takes,” Dunbar told AP. While the real estate tycoon maintained he didn’t envision running in 1988, he did make a trip to New Hampshire in October 1987 where, according to an account from The Philadelphia Inquirer, he ripped into Japan and Kuwait and said the Ayatollah Khomeini made Soviet leader Mikhail Gorbachev “look like a baby.”
Years later, Trump would tell Boston.com that the heady days of the 1987 Draft Trump movement might have “planted the seed” for his later moves toward a presidential campaign.
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