How Trump Built His Base | Donald Trump | The Choice 2024

“How Trump Built His Base” is one in a series of shorts exploring some of the moments and experiences that shaped the lives and characters of Kamala Harris and Donald Trump, as reported in “The Choice 2024.”

Award-winning filmmaker Michael Kirk and his team, who have made five prior installments of “The Choice” over the past 25 years, sat down with Trump and Harris’ friends, advisors and critics, as well as authors, journalists and political insiders to present deeply reported narrative arcs of both candidates’ lives, going all the way back to their childhoods.

“The Choice 2024: Harris vs. Trump” is a FRONTLINE production with Kirk Documentary Group, Ltd. The director is Michael Kirk. The producers are Michael Kirk, Mike Wiser, Vanessa Fica and Philip Bennett. The writers are Michael Kirk and Mike Wiser. The reporters are Vanessa Fica and Brooke Nelson Alexander. The editor-in-chief and executive producer of FRONTLINE is Raney Aronson-Rath.

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FRONTLINE is produced at GBH in Boston and airs nationwide on PBS.

Funding for FRONTLINE is provided through the support of PBS viewers and by the Corporation for Public Broadcasting. Additional support for FRONTLINE is provided by the Abrams Foundation, Park Foundation, the John D. and Catherine T. MacArthur Foundation, the Heising-Simons Foundation, and the FRONTLINE Journalism Fund, with major support from Jon and Jo Ann Hagler on behalf of the Jon L. Hagler Foundation, and additional support from Suzanne and Mark Colodny, and Koo and Patricia Yuen.

Support for "The Choice 2024" is provided by the Corporation for Public Broadcasting and the Jonathan Logan Family Foundation.

[ron]

Not a politician
Not a businessman
He’s a TV guy who loves to push buttons, sit back and enjoy the reaction.

[BlakeElliott]

“He who controls the media controls the mind.” -Jim Morrison

[jordancarson]

Of course he got advice from televangelist! They’re the biggest grifter of all time!

[AukeSlotegraaf]

Superstition alive and well in the USA. This is why it is dangerous to believe nonsense.

[michellewhatshername]

“I love the poorly educated” Donald J. Trump 2016

[mekonnenhaile]

one scammer supporting another scammer

[joshua.snyder]

Pandering to bigoted, dim, arrogant dupes.

[MrPopc]

Yeah, these are real Christians talking like that not a word out of his mouth comes from the Bible. You ask him one verse just one verse and he can’t come up with it. He says he likes them all. He is great at deceiving Christians. They just got suckered losers

[ser]

People want permission to hate. Trump gave them that permission. His “loyal” following is that simple.

[roberttilton]

In its current state, our political system is no better than one big high school pissing contest.

[dennisgarber]

"Can you believe that people believe in this BullShit?"-Trump to his personal lawyer, Michael Cohen after the first meeting with Paula and the laying on of the hands. "At the moment when I saw Trump act religious, knowing his real contempt for it, I knew he would become President."-Michael Cohen-Trump's personal lawyer and fixer over 2 decades-in his book, "Disloyal".

[dankoppable]

The evangelicals will wear the stain of Trump forever

[gregbors]

“And they believe in him because he says ‘I’m for you.’ And if you *don’t know* him well, you believe that. You believe he cares.”

- Exactly. Trump is a great con artist, particularly when he’s working on a group of people who are known for lacking skepticism about extraordinary claims

[keaco]

People who embrace faith have no need for evidence and reality that gets in their way.

[desertdetroiter]

I’ve never been prouder to be an atheist.

[tamarazwinak]

Proof there is no godliness in these devils. They're all out for money, not serving people.

[beLIEve]

I thought it's from Apprentice. That explains why people were willing to drink bleach

[Mishlei]

Mishlei 29
12 If a ruler hearken to lies, all his servants are wicked. A false witness shall not be unpunished, and he that speaketh lies shall perish. ~ Mishlei 19:9

[williamlloyd]

Apprentice TV series bring in Trump into our living room on a weekly basis; shaped America perception that he’s a super competent businessman. That show turned him from a has been a publicity seeking TV personality into a viable candidate.
PS — Just dumb luck for Trump and disaster for USA!

[sFootballCards]

Every time he says “you”, he means “me”.