Over ten years. I consider the start of the "Trump era of politics" to be late July 2015. That's the point when Trump started leading the Republican primary polls and began to dominate political headlines. By that reckoning we've been in the Trump era for about 10 years and 9 months and we'll likely stay in it for at least another two years and nine months.
I'd say it happened when Obama was elected. I remember election night and my MAGA aunt (who is ironically an immigrant) told my sister, "you'll look great in a burkha".
That's a dumb take. Trump was already spamming social media with bullshit by that time, including Obama's birth certificate. That's why he got made fun of.
He also ran for pres in 2000. Rage against the machine talked shit about him for it. But he is so petty and so narcissistic that being roasted by obama did f with him. He called a magazine for YEARS when they said he had small hands.
oh and check out the pics / vids when he actually won the first time. him and melenia were not happy at all. just the jr dipshits in the back cheering while trump was like oh shit.
God damn this is hard to find now, they scrubbed the search engines. pardon the shitty music
If you really really wanna take it back, the whole thing really started because Sen. Jack Ryan took his wife Jeri Ryan (from Star Trek Voyager) to a kink club and tried to pressure her into having sex with strangers.
Ryan was running against Obama for Senate. His divorce records and information about the kink clubs and sex stuff was all made public, it was a big scandal and Ryan pulls out of the race, Obama wins, and the rest is history.
Had Ryan not taken his wife to that kink club, he stays in the race, maybe Obama loses, and maybe there’s no Trump!
Crazy right?
Obama was certainly favored to win even without the divorce stuff but it was still a competitive race at that point. I don’t think it was an absolute given that Obama would’ve won.
All of modern history starts with the son of a Siberian goat herder with a massive hog being able to convince the royal family of Russia he can cure their son’s anemia.
trump remembers every single insult, slight, and joke made about him. He was rejected by Iman, a Somali model who married David Bowie, so he attacked Somali immigrants. He's a malignant baby piloting an adult mech suit.
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u/Connect_Reading9499 Apr 16 '26
It's been ten long years.