[DoodleDawg]

Wikipedia says Trump made a run for the top of the Reform Party in 2000. Anybody know if that is true?

It's true. He didn't win though.

[Alberta's Child]

There are two things I find very interesting about his short-lived 2000 presidential run:

1. He got into the race at the urging of Jesse Ventura, who won the Minnesota governor's race in 1998 as the Reform Party candidate.

2. Trump dropped out of the 2000 race because he decided that a third-party candidate could never win a presidential election, and that he'd have to basically hijack one of the major party nominations in order to win.

[Alberta's Child]

He also ran a campaign on universal health care, and announced that he'd select Oprah Winfrey as his running mate.

It sounds like it was the perfect campaign for someone who was recruited by a former professional wrestler. LOL.