BuzzFeed - "[â¦] I really am tired of seeing what's happening with this country." Frederic J. Brown / Getty Images In the final months of Ronald Reagan's presidency, Donald Trump appeared on The Oprah Winfrey Show to discuss the advertisement criticizing U.S. foreign policy that he spent nearly $100,000 to place in three major newspapers the previous fall -- and the possibility that he might run for president, himself. Trump told Winfrey in April of 1988 that he was "tired of seeing what's happening with this country," and said that America was supporting its foreign allies at the expense of its own citizens' well-being. Winfrey began by asking Trump about the "open letter" to the American public that he had paid to place in the New York Times, Washington Post, and Boston Globe a few months before, at a time when some were speculating that Trump was planning to enter the race for the Republican nomination to succeed Reag
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