I think that part is pretty normal, lots of people make deals like that

The crazy part is how he used to call newspapers under false names to talk himself up

Hell, there's a reasonable amount of evidence suggesting that he was never a billionaire (until this year at least), he apparently got on the Forbes list by bugging them until they put him in

He had to be in it because they filmed in his hotel. Imagine Paris Hilton wanting to be in a film because part of the movie is shot in a Hilton. It wasn't enough that everything in that hotel is labeled "Trump", he had to show up and have a speaking role because otherwise you might forget who the hotel belongs to.

It's not really that surprising that Trump would request a cameo considering they used one of his hotels for filming.

The thing that I have never been able to get over is how the guy who live in a luxurious penthouse suite and shits on a gilded toilet, that has built his entire brand identity about being a rich douchebag somehow convinced people that he was a champion of the common man, as if he has literally anything in common with the average American whatsoever. I still burn even today when I think about how stupid people are to have fallen for it in the first place.

Now any criticism of him is automatically political, because he got elected to the most important job in the nation. Even criticism of him before he became a politician is being reframed as just disgruntled Democrats trying to tear down Trump.

I hate him. So much.

It’s an easy way to get your name out there. Look at Zelenskyy, dude played a fictional president before being elected. That’s like electing Kevin Spacey for being in House of Cards.

don't think there's a point to attribute morality or judgment from a cameo from a then tv celebrity.

he is one of the worst people who ever lived. but i doubt that cameo had anything to do with it.

what