>>Don’t be so sure. If 5 years ago someone told you that Trump would be running as a conservative republican AND would have a runaway lead in the polls - would you have believed that?
No, but almost 30 years ago, before The Apprentice, when Trump was a household name as a wealth creator in a prosperous America, my friends and I were serving on a submarine and one guy who was really into economics and politics at the time declared that Trump was Presidential material. We laughed a little, but agreed with him.
I bet your buddy had read ‘The Art of the Deal” (1987)
I’ve not read it, but those who have said it is brilliant.