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When was he at the head of the Reform party?
by gjm11 9mo ago
When was he at the head of the Reform party?
- paulryanrogers 9mo agoIn 2000, with the help of Jesse Ventura.
- gjm11 9mo agoI'm having trouble finding any evidence for that. E.g., https://web.archive.org/web/20030808111721/https://edition.cnn.com/TRANSCRIPTS/0002/11/cf.00.html https://web.archive.org/web/20030808111721/https://edition.c... -- here's a thing from February of that year that (if I'm understanding right) reports Ventura leaving the Reform Party because he didn't like its endorsement of Pat Buchanan for president; it mentions Trump, but only as one person Ventura might have supported as a presidential nominee, and it actually quotes Trump saying to Ventura "you're the leader". Trump was never the Reform Party's nominee nor anyone else's. (https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Donald_Trump_2000_presidential_campaign https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Donald_Trump_2000_presidential... says that "he never expanded the campaign beyond the exploratory phase".) It's not entirely clear to me that there was actually such a thing as the leader of the Reform Party, especially in early 2000 when there was a lot of infighting, but if there was one it seems to me that it might have been Ventura but certainly wasn't Trump. What am I missing?
- paulryanrogers 9mo agoI stand corrected. According to Wikipedia, Trump sought the nomination for the Reform party candidate for a few months and ultimately backed out. Regardless, that fact only supports my point. The man is a loser whose modern following is based on largely external factors like white grievance and fear.