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Donald J. Trump in 2000: How I’ll Be the First Celebrity President
TIME CAPSULE
In an eerily prescient interview in 2000, Donald Trump predicted his own political rise and laid out his plan to hack the media.
Donald J. Trump
Published
May 5 2016
1:13AM EDT
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