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He was well known in the 1980s, with a reputation for poor taste even then. He first ran for President at 41 and was on the cover of Newsweek in 1987: https://web.archive.org/web/20160312080447/http://europe.newsweek.com/rise-trump-330996?rm=eu https://web.archive.org/web/20160312080447/http://europe.new... Doonesbury and Bloom County, popular comic strips running in most newspapers, had arcs involving him, too: https://web.archive.org/web/20160306081734/http://doonesbury.washingtonpost.com/strip/set/89 https://web.archive.org/web/20160306081734/http://doonesbury...