As the U.S. war with Iran rages on and Americans struggle to pay their bills, President Donald Trump jumped on Truth Social to share a 25-minute montage of his life.
Around two hours after his Wednesday night primetime address to the nation on the Iran attacks, the president shared a YouTube link to a 25-minute video titled: “Donald Trump – Clip from every year from 1980 to 2024.”
The video, posted without additional comment from Trump, included clips of him from at least four decades: talking in interviews about his life, politics and world events, TV appearances on shows like “The Nanny,” and infamous moments from his first term including the “Sharpiegate” fiasco.
In his White House address earlier that evening, the president claimed the U.S. is on track to achieve its goals “shortly” in Iran. He also said the U.S. will continue to strike the country “extremely hard” in the coming weeks and “bring them back to the stone ages, where they belong.”
Across the country, Americans are expressing deep concerns about the rising cost of food, rent and other day-to-day necessities including the soaring price of gas, linked to the Iran war.
The YouTube montage begins with a 1980 clip of Trump, whose father was a millionaire real estate developer, claiming he was raised in a “very normal fashion.”
Then, in a 1988 CNN clip, Trump claims wealthy people don’t like him because they’re in competition with him, and that the “people that really like me are the taxi drivers and the workers.”
In a later clip, from a 1994 ABC interview, Trump says that he doesn’t believe $1 million is a lot of money.
The video also featured Trump’s testimony at a 1993 congressional hearing on Native American-owned casinos, where he argued with Representative George Miller, a Democrat from California. (Clips from that hearing have resurfaced separately showing Trump claiming that some casino operators “don’t look like Indians to me.”)
The video also shows Trump in 1997 claiming that he and Miss Universe winner Alicia Machado both “eat too much” when they’re under pressure.
The montage includes a clip from 2001, when Trump spoke to NBC News in the wake of the September 11 attacks. He told the network: “It’s like a whole different skyline. It’s like a whole different city and world. I cannot believe the sight of lower Manhattan without the World Trade Center.”
The video featured some of Trump’s many TV appearances including a 1995 Pizza Hut ad and his 1996 cameo on the sitcom “The Nanny.” Also in there was his 2015 appearance on “Saturday Night Live,” during which he danced and sang in a sketch that parodied Drake’s hit song, “Hotline Bling.”
Once the montage reached the mid-2000s, there were clips foreshadowing Trump’s presidency. In 2008, Trump repeated his now-familiar claim that the press is “very dishonest.” In 2010, he declared that he “would run as a Republican.”
The more recent clips were pulled from infamous moments in his first White House term, including the September 2019 “Sharpiegate” incident where he displayed a map of Hurricane Dorian’s path that had been altered with a black marker.
The montage ended with Trump describing the July 2024 assassination attempt against him in Butler, Pennsylvania.
Source: independent.co.uk