How was Trump so popular?

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Art of the Deal. My dad had the book and when I was young, I think 5th grade, I read it and was like this is a good book. Yes, yes, it was ghost written, as are most books by famous people.

Then I totally forget about the guy until apprentice. And the show rocked. You're FIRED! As a business major, I loved watching that in undergrad. We all knew it wasn't reality, but we all thought, hey, this is our look outside the ivory tower, LOL. And Trump was funny and seemed fair. Then you see the guy go on the talk show circuits and he seemed genuine. I only saw him on a few, so can't speak for all.

then in the 2012 election I notice he is running as a TP. That was the first time I thought the guy might be a nutter. He had some fresh ideas, outside the box (for back then), but he just didn't seem real. I thought it was publicity for his show. I mean this is the guy that could go on the View, talk with Oprah and they liked him.

And then he starts off with the birther crap. At first I thought it was joke just to, again, get more attention for his show, but then he doubled, tripled and quadrupled on stupid by promising something really big and he never produced.

At this point his popularity starts severely waning.

My question is, how, up until that point, was he so popular?
 
The birther crap was just stupid, I really do not know what he hoped to achieve.

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Yaya said:
Art of the Deal. My dad had the book and when I was young, I think 5th grade, I read it and was like this is a good book. Yes, yes, it was ghost written, as are most books by famous people.

Then I totally forget about the guy until apprentice. And the show rocked. You're FIRED! As a business major, I loved watching that in undergrad. We all knew it wasn't reality, but we all thought, hey, this is our look outside the ivory tower, LOL. And Trump was funny and seemed fair. Then you see the guy go on the talk show circuits and he seemed genuine. I only saw him on a few, so can't speak for all.

then in the 2012 election I notice he is running as a TP. That was the first time I thought the guy might be a nutter. He had some fresh ideas, outside the box (for back then), but he just didn't seem real. I thought it was publicity for his show. I mean this is the guy that could go on the View, talk with Oprah and they liked him.

And then he starts off with the birther crap. At first I thought it was joke just to, again, get more attention for his show, but then he doubled, tripled and quadrupled on stupid by promising something really big and he never produced.

At this point his popularity starts severely waning.

My question is, how, up until that point, was he so popular?
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Your progression shows more about you growing up than about Trump changing. Sadly a large percent of our voting populace (the minority so far) has not grown up as you did.
 
Jarod said:
1) I am not seeking a platform greater than the one I have.
2) I have a platform, you simply don't know about it.
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Good for you for being so unbelievably heard and revered by millions of adoring fans. Most folks don't have that.
 
I fear that the elimination of normal politics way back in the days of McCarthy has made for huge public ignorance (I gather that most of the working population doesn't know about the separation of powers and so on) and its replacement with rantings about abortion, shithouse sharing and the like, have made for boringly 'safe' politicians and a huge, hating mob. Given someone they were used to on television, is it surprising that the ignorant mob voted for him?
 
Jarod said:
1) I am not seeking a platform greater than the one I have.
2) I have a platform, you simply don't know about it.
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a carefully constructed platform....
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Jarod said:
No its a big minority that don't have that option, because they are not reality based.
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Oh really, that's the only possible reason? Perhaps they just have jobs, families, and don't have the luxury that you have of so much extra time.
 
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