From the Archive: The Day Trump Went Down the Escalator
When it all started …
6 min readFeb 21, 2024
I covered the 2016 Presidential Election for Bloomberg Politics, and for the first year, until it became clear that he was going to win the nomination and everyone was going to be covering him, I was on the Trump beat. I was assigned to write about Trump’s pending announcement that he would (or wouldn’t) be running for President the…