Posted on 06/15/2019 5:09:23 PM PDT by 2ndDivisionVet
When Donald Trump descended the golden escalator to announce his run for president, none in the sceptical media pack below could have imagined he would win.
It was on this day four years ago - at the exact same stage of the last US presidential cycle - that Mr Trump made his announcement: he would, for real this time, run for the highest office in the land.
The property mogul and TV host was the 12th candidate to come forward to try to claim the Republican Party's nomination.
If the Washington establishment was sceptical, it was because this was not the first time he had floated a run for the White House, only not to follow up on his own speculation.
Many of the reports that day reflected those doubts. Many of them, employing a degree of mockery rarely used in news, denigrated his performance at the podium inside the gilded Trump Tower. Some of them, though only some, focused on his claim Mexico was sending "rapists" over the border.
What did commentators that day fail to understand about the man who would be president? And what did they get right?
Short presentational grey line 'He seems like he means it' - BBC News
What we said in 2015
"Donald Trump is actually running for president," our North America reporter Anthony Zurcher wrote. "Few people expected it to happen - he's gone through the motions many times before - and his political rants up until now have been roundly derided as a joke. But this time he actually said the words, and he seems like he means it...
"He's already proven a willingness to take swings at his opponents. Jeb Bush and Marco Rubio 'don't have a clue', he said in his announcement speech.
(Excerpt) Read more at bbc.com ...
“Jeb Bush and Marco Rubio ‘don’t have a clue’, he said in his announcement speech.”
And he was right. Thus it began.
Regardless of everything else, Trump pulled off the biggest upset in US political history.
Mexico is sending rapists (and murderers) across the border.
That he did. And against a deep state darling who put forth the least possible effort imaginable. Not even with Obama, the DOJ, and the CIA pulling her along—and while also trying to trick and entrap Trump—could they convince the American people that the loser was a winner. Even the establishment in his own party washed their hands of him. Cruz encouraged delegates to “vote their conscience.” Sarah Palin and the party base were the sole ringing endorsers of “the happy warrior.”
They’ll do their best to bury it, though.
Trump’s announcement date should be adopted as a Freeper Holiday!
Actually, Reagan was 7% behind Carter on Election Day.
make a movie
Jeb Bush and Marco Rubio ‘don’t have a clue’, he said in his announcement speech.
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He was being nice.
Yeb! and Micro Rubio and Flimsey Grahamnesty and every other Bush League Republican had long ago sold US out.
We had only been allowed to vote for amnesty candidates.
True. But it was the first time Trump ever ran for...anything.
He wasn’t _supposed_ to win. Because, as the smartest, hardest-working, and most qualified candidate to ever the field, it was _her_ turn and rightful due!
;-) :-D
Who wants to be next to be tossed in the van? Woo Hoo!
Trump announced on June 16. This is the 2nd article I’ve read stating otherwise.
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Donald_Trump_2016_presidential_campaign
My favorite of all the videos.
When People Laughed At The Idea Of Donald Trump Actually Being Elected President! [Compilation]
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=zT0Rjc6jKCg
Two things I noticed in the photos in the article. “Make America Great Again” was the slogan from day one. These kind of campaign slogans /marketing gimmicks usually come along later in a campaign. The campaign logo of Trump in white on a blue background was the same from day one (except for adding Pence after the convention) also unusual for a campaign. He had his marketing plan together before he even announced. But he never really emphasized the marketing plan in contrast with the Clinton campaign that made a big deal over the H with an arrow that was soundly ridiculed.
On a marketing note, HRC’s major foibles was not emphasizing her last name but rather the H. It was wasted money. H was not on the ballot. Hillary CLINTON and Donald TRUMP were.
At a campaign school I attended years ago it was pointed out that anything beyond your last name on a campaign sign was was superfluous, especially a district number. When people go into the voting booth your name is either going to be on their ballot or not.
Very few candidates can pull off using just a first name. Susan Collins in Maine has done that with her signs that say, “Susan, our Senator” and Olympia Snowe’s signs just said “Olympia” Everyone in Maine knows who they are. The signs are just reminding people its time to get to the polls to vote for them again. Angus King has also built that name recongniton where his first name tells time to go vote. King for Senate signs would get lost in the clutter.
Looking back I don’t think anyone of us here who could have predicted
his win. Many like myself jumped the Cruz ship and put our hope in Trump
when Trump announced. Anyone here who said Trump would win is not
being truthful. Hope and blind faith is all we had. The rest is history.
Yes, and the press would go absolutely gaga if a Democrat won who had never run for public office, much less served before, and has the the beautiful fashion-model wife.
My only beef with Trump at the time was his relative inexperience. A lot of folks talk a good game. I’ve voted for a few. I wanted fighters with a record back then and Scott Walker and Ted Cruz were it.
Scott dropped out soon after Iowa. Cruz got my vote in the primary but I couldn’t believe how he imploded...and kept on imploding. Trump was my pick going in to convention. But by then, he was the only one really standing. Then came the convention shenanigans and Cruz’ “vote your conscience” fiasco.
Trump pops the balloon on “experience” being a key qualifier for a modern candidate. The Constitution doesn’t call for any and Trump proved he needed no experience to handle the establishment. The establishment had no experience with Donald J. Trump!
I supported Trump from day one and was confident he’d win and said so on more than one occasion. His timing was perfect.
In fact I posted this below the same day on 6/16/2015 that Trump announced. After his amazing speech, I was pretty much surprised how many political posers on this site jumped out of the wood work to immediately bad mouth and discredit Trump.
Some of the comments posted were quite remarkable. Turns our a few posters revealed themselves to be some of the first never-Trump hacks to surface on this site. Trump is arguably the greatest president in U.S. history. So his speech was put into news section, which was nearly immediately sent to the chat zone. Some people have really good political perception, some don’t.
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Watch this: Full Speech Trump Presidential Announcement
http://www.freerepublic.com/focus/bloggers/3301055/posts?q=1&;page=1
Told my dad that very day that Trump was our next President. Felt it in my spidey senses...
Any “Angus” signs in Maine deserve to have the letter “g” struck out in heavy black marker.
They cannot bury anything. We will know it all.
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