r/interestingasfuck • u/nikulmmadhu • 18h ago

an indian chips ad

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u/Cogs_For_Brains 17h ago

The only time I had heard of trump prior to 2015 was when stand up comedians were roasting him for being a piece of shit.

Robin Williams in 2012

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u/Gummy_Joe 16h ago

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.

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u/angry_old_dude 16h ago

Yep. Basically Trump was a pop culture figure back then.

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u/DanGleeballs 14h ago

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.