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In 1999 way before there was any serious talk about donald trump running for president, garry trudeau and doones bury character toured him running. as you know theres been this amazing, amazing, amazing response to my candidacy. its unbelievable how amazing its been. as long as im a candidate, you have to cover me which is good for the trump brand which just gets bigger and bigger and bigger. november 14th, 1999. look at this one, look at this one. this is from december, 1999. a lot of people ha...

League real estate developer who was just out there day after day after day. now, he did hire a couple of imaginary press agents to help him do that, so he didnt do it all by himself. but he was on the covers of magazines. the big problem with taking a local figure and putting him in a comic strip is that you can really lard up the script with way too much exposition and trying to position him and make him seem real to people, but by then he had gotten on enough magazine covers so that when thos...

Those ads broke and they got commented on a lot, and when we first learned that the world was laughing at us 30 years ago, it just seemed to be comedy malpractice not to actually push him into the strip and move forward. >> i think the other thing that makes -- the other thing that is surprising looking at this, as, you know, not something thats just funny but a document of social criticism at the time is part of the reason its so pressient is he hasnt changed at all. the way you have him talkin...

Enough promising to better stop smut. on sunday and monday they published glamour shots of melania prompting the donald to respond. melania was one of the most successful models and she did many photo shoots including for covers and major magazines in europe. pictures like this are common. melania would not booy the first, first lady to appear in a racy photo. in 1897 the post published this scandalous pick of william mckinneys wife. we remember that scandal. >> and that was very fashionable. >>...

Content. >> we need to examine ourselves. donald trump needs to examine himself. >> listen, why we watch reality television -- >> speak for yourself, dr. drew. >> thats all about us. why do we do this? lets examine that. >> thank you, dr. drew. i always watch you. i dont watch reality tv but i do watch dr. drew. what time does your show air again? >> 7:00 eastern. >> on hln. you may know that. thank you, sir. coming up, donald trump called wife, melania, one of the most successful models of he...

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Which makes me desperately want to ask garry trudeau whats about to happen next. joining us now for the enter view is garry trudeau, author of the new book "yuge!" 30 years of doonesbury on trump. great to see you. >> its great to see you. >> you know that i am a huge "doonesbury" fan any way but i did not realize how much you saw this coming. >> youre giving me far more credit -- >> its creepy, though, the stuff from 97 and 99. >> well, 87 -- >> 87. >> 87 we in new york had been entertained by ...

The reporter says you, stupid? and trump says exactly! people are begging me to run, begging me. that was december, 1999. garry trudeau didnt just see this whole thing coming, he saw this coming so clearly that he basically ended up scripting a portion of this years political events decades in advance. that is -- that is really good satire, but its also really spookily accurate prediction, which makes me desperately want to ask garry trudeau whats about to happen next. joining us now for the ent...

Portion of this years political events decades in advance. that is -- that is really good satire, but its also really spookily accurate prediction, which makes me desperately want to ask garry trudeau whats about to happen next. joining us now for the enter view is garry trudeau, author of the new book "yuge!" 30 years of doonesbury on trump. great to see you. >> its great to see you. >> you know that i am a huge "doonesbury" fan any way but i did not realize how much you saw this coming. >> you...

Pressient is he hasnt changed at all. the way you have him talking is what he says now that hes the presidential nominee. >> absolutely, not just on those broad issues but just the underlying personality disorder has been consistent through those 30 years, that narcissism was bubbling up big-time or big league as he would say. >> big league. >> big league way back in the mid-80s when he didnt have anything really to boast about. he had done this one hotel renovation and put up a few class and br...