When did you first hear about Donald Trump?

80's.

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1980's: college roommate had his book "Art of the Deal".

I first heard about him from a commercial about "The Apprentice," around the millennium. At the time, I was a teenager, and was already disliking reality shows, so my interest in his show was very low. It got even lower when he was mean to the contestants and loved to say "You're fired."

But he was a different man in those days, so I don't think much on it. Plus, they had people deliberately act on those "reality" shows in ways they DON'T behave in actual reality. Just ask Gordon Ramsay.

In the 80s he was often on television. He was a master self promoter. These days that's enough to get you elected, I guess.

so long ago it seems like a dream that movie the neverending story

Early 90s when he made news for banging his mistress (Marla Maples) in the room next door to his wife and three small children at a ski resort he took them all to for vacation. Right then and there I knew this honest guy with high Christian morals was presidential material.

Since the 80s.
He was In the NY papers constantly spouting loutish nonsense, most notably the Central Park Five debacle