Trump wasn’t that much in the news back in the eighties.
He wouldn’t have been on a high school kid’s radar.
I recall that he was.
Even back then, Trump was quite a self-promoter. There was Trump Tower, Trump this, Trump that, Trump The Game (I had forgotten about that one but they showed a commercial on TV about it).
I’m a bit reminded of a cartoon I saw as a kid. It was pre-1976, I’m sure. It was Ronald Reagan as a child, with a friend telling him, “Ronnie, you can’t be a movie actor AND president of the USA!”