Had the same reaction....I new nothing about Trump except he had condo in NYC and the golf club at Palm Beach....and a tv show ...
But he sounded pretty good...went to the Library and got Art of the Deal...
Then I got Get Tough America....I thought I was reading Ronald Reagan..
He exposed DC as a RICO rackett...they all wanted him gone...the GOP the most...
I don't think I ever looked back after that. Good thing too, because Cruz would have never gotten elected. Hillary would have stomped him. After Trump was elected I thought he was even more bodacious then I even had hoped for.
I loved his mean tweets too, for he was responding in kind, instead of retreating like most republican'ts do.