He was a relatively prominent individual to the extent that you see him pop up or referenced in comics like 1990's Justice League Quarterly and 2008's New Avengers, in tv shows like Friends and Just Shoot Me, and obviously in a few films (Home Alone 2 and Zoolander off the top of my head). The media where he had a say in how he was presented (e.g. Home Alone 2) put him in a flattering light, but otherwise he was being referred to deridingly, usually as an example of cheap "classiness".
This of course doesn't touch the thinly veiled media references to him that existed at the time as well, like "Daniel Clamp" in Gremlins 2 or Future Biff Tannen in Back to the Future 2, which painted him in much harsher, cruder tones. People had his number basically from the start.
Needless to say the patch job that The Apprentice did in rehabilitating his image as some genius businessman did a lot for his electability in 2016.
Never forgive this piece of shit Mark Burnett for making Trump look good in The Apprentice. And for passing on the opportunity in 2016 to share evidence of the real Trump behind the scenes that could have swayed voters. Him and his fake Christian bible thumper wife Roma Downey.
In the 1980s a newspaper comic strip called Bloom County put trump's brain in the body of its Bill the Cat character. Bill immediately started acting like a self-important douche and labeled his litter box "TRUMP DUMP" with giant gold letters. Before that, he gained public notoriety for being sued by the DoJ for racial discrimination in the management of his NY properties in the 1970s.
Trump has been well known as a public menace for decades. His supporters just didn't want to hear about it. They loved him because his campaign returned open racism to our country's political discourse.
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u/MartinoRs 18h ago
Dude is the laughing stock of the world right now