There it is, within touching distance.

I can almost smell the weekend.

We’ve done well, good people, so let’s celebrate with a Throwback Thursday.

Over the past few weeks, Sacha Baron Cohen’s character Borat has been making waves, with a headline-grabbing appearance by Rudy Giuliani serving as great advertising for the release of Borat Subsequent Moviefilm.

Before Borat’s first movie, there was Ali G, and in 2003 Cohen’s character managed to score a sitdown interview with then-businessman Donald Trump.

They really were simpler times.

Before we get to why securing a sitdown with Trump at that time was easier than you might think, let’s see the interview.

Even back then, Donnie had a fondness for cutting things short, although he had a good reason this time around.

From the two-minute mark, you’ll see Trump appear:

Strange to hear the future president talk in complete sentences, isn’t it?

As Rolling Stone points out, back in 2003, Trump wasn’t the hottest of properties:

At the time of the interview, nobody could have imagined that Cohen was talking to a future president. It was a low point in Trump’s career, when his business empire was struggling financially and his name recognition was slowly dwindling.

The next year, British television producer Mark Burnett would revive his career with The Apprentice. The NBC reality show portrayed Trump as a ruthless, brilliant businessman and it made Trump an estimated $200 million across 14 seasons.

Without that show, it’s hard to imagine that Trump would have won the presidency in 2016.

You might think Keeping up with the Kardashians or Love Island is the worst reality TV show of all time, but you’d be wrong.

[source:rollingstone]