After Buchanan announced a “Reform Party” for the 2000 election with an America First platform, Donald Trump, a bankrupt playboy billionaire, unexpectedly entered the lists. Because “the Republicans are just too crazy right,” Trump said he’d decided to challenge Buchanan, “a Hitler lover” and “anti-Semite” who was going after the “really staunch right wacko vote,” for the nomination of his own party.
