One Year Ago, Donald Trump Announced He Was Running For President
One year ago, Donald J. Trump descended a gleaming golden escalator in the lobby of Trump Tower in New York City to announce his candidacy for president. “This is beyond anyone’s expectations,” he said that day, coining perhaps the secondary slogan of his campaign.
The year that followed has redefined the bounds of propriety in American political rhetoric and brought ugly sentiments to the surface in ways that have been shocking and disappointing. Often through his use of Twitter, Trump has inspired reveries in white nationalist and anti-Semitic circles as easily as he’s signaled eschaton to liberals and many conservatives.
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