[orinoco]

From the article he was unaffiliated or independent for most of his adult life. Turned Republican then Democrat for a few years then Republican. So he tried Democrat and it did not suit him. I guess he finally found his true home as a conservative!

[Heartlander]

* JULY 1987: Trump registers for the first time from his Fifth Avenue penthouse. The real estate developer, 41 at the time, reports having previously been registered from his boyhood home in Queens (though his prior party affiliation is unclear). Trump enrolls as a REPUBLICAN.

* OCTOBER 1999: Trump dumps the GOP and enrolls as a member of the INDEPENDENCE PARTY.

* AUGUST 2001: Trump enrolls as a DEMOCRAT.

* SEPTEMBER 2009: After eight years as a Democrat, Trump returns to the REPUBLICAN PARTY.

* DECEMBER 2011: Trump lasts two years before he again abandons the party of Ronald Reagan. He eschews the GOP in favor of siding with no party. On his registration form, “The Apprentice” star checks off the box marked "I DO NOT WISH TO ENROLL IN A PARTY."

* APRIL 2012: Trump registers as a REPUBLICAN.