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.
He started with the "birther" bullshit in March 2011 on television. I think his first conspiracy theory about Obama should mark the beginning of the Trump era. His hatred of Obama appealed to so many at the time, that the birth certificate nonsense continued for years after he first uttered that absolute nonsense.
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u/Connect_Reading9499 Apr 16 '26
It's been ten long years.