Sorry for the shit source but sometimes the Daily Mail is best for American politics. Trump wasn’t in court so the American media didn’t care and it wasn’t paying him any attention.
‘Let’s talk about hot dogs. I just had one actually,’ Trump declared. ‘I just had a hot dog, it was very good.’
He segued into a story about how Frank Sinatra told him not to eat before a performance but he didn’t take that advice because he was a ‘politician,’ while his other friend, Italian opera singer Pavarotti, gave no such advice.
I thought the first time he ran was in Clinton’s term, he didn’t make it past primary when he was on the Dem ballot I think?
I don’t think he ever made it on an actual ballot. Some doofus raised a bunch of funds to try to draft him into running, and even got him to do a sort of exploratory campaign stop in New Hampshire where he gave a speech to the Portsmouth rotary club:
https://archive.md/JSh7x
Trump just sort of used all of this as publicity to push The Art of the Deal.
Ninja edit: The reason I remember his faux-candidacy in the first place was because in elementary school, my teacher asked the class if they knew anything about the upcoming presidential election – specifically, if we knew the names of anyone running for president. I raised my hand and blurted out Donald Trump, because I’d just heard something about it on the radio during the bus ride to school. I was promptly ridiculed by the teacher, who knew him only as “that guy who owns a casino or something,” and didn’t believe me when I insisted that I heard about it on the news during the ride to school. Said teacher was god-awful and fed us prunes as a “treat” from time to time.
Jesus, that’s not a nice teacher