Right.
I forgot about that.
I just read about it last summer when, right after he declared, I took “The Art of the Deal” out of the library. I figured that the best way to assess who he really was/is was by seeing what he had to say several decades before running for POTUS. FYI, it was essentially the same thing that he said throughout the campaign. He thought government to be stupid, slow, utterly careless with taxpayer money, and pretty much unable to do anything well. He bemoaned our terrible trade agreements, how the middle class was getting it in the neck, how vets were treated terribly and how we didn’t give the police enough credit for what they do. He was a strong backer of Israel, and knew that we needed a military second to none. IOW, he is the same guy, who has honestly stated how he really looks at the world and its problems. Obviously, it also spoke about his deals, and various travails related to them, and he tooted his own horn more than a bit (but, then again, who isn’t the hero in his own autobiography?). All things said, it was very interesting and very educational - we could ALL learn a lot from him, despite his many flaws (and he acknowledges those, too - so there’s some not insignificant amount of humility, which the public persona rarely shows).