economically eclipsed by japan. it really did kind of freak out about it. news magazines ran articles. american car companies released a whole bunch of explicitly, anti-japan car commercials. >> the cutlass is a family car built for our sized families, not theirs. >> ooh. one celebrity made it clear how worried he was, donald trump. he had his first public flirtation with running for president. he kicked off his i-might-run-for-president campaign that year. complained that america was getting is screwed out of billions of dollars by, among other places, japan.