The day Trump ran for president (and what people predicted)BBC, Jun 16, 2019
When Donald Trump descended the golden escalator to announce his run for president, none in the sceptical media pack below could have imagined he would win.
It was on this day four years ago - at the exact same stage of the last US presidential cycle - that Mr Trump made his announcement: he would, for real this time, run for the highest office in the land.
The property mogul and TV host was the 12th candidate to come forward to try to claim the Republican Party's nomination.
If the Washington establishment was sceptical, it was because this was not the first time he had floated a run for the White House, only not to follow up on his own speculation.
Many of the reports that day reflected those doubts. Many of them, employing a degree of mockery rarely used in news, denigrated his performance at the podium inside the gilded Trump Tower. Some of them, though only some, focused on his claim Mexico was sending "rapists" over the border.
What did commentators that day fail to understand about the man who would be president? And what did they get right?
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