Funny thing is, Trump’s 2016 presidential campaign mirrored Pat Buchanan’s. In fact, Buchanan himself ran in the Reform Party to (according to Jesse Ventura, who was Governor of Minnesota at the time) infiltrate it for his own needs such as paying off campaign debts.

Obama though was the “final straw” for Trump although per Howard Stern, Trump ran for POTUS as a publicity stunt in response to the ratings of the Apprentice.