Indeed, Patterson tells of an encounter a dozen years ago in which Trump, ebullient at a newspaper article heâd just read, said to him: âDid you see the polls?â
âHe was ranked first among who people would like to see as a Republican candidate,â Patterson says. âAnd he wasnât running then, nobody knew anything that he stood for, zero. And he looks at me and he goes, âCrazy world, huh?ââ
Patterson, who claims to be a left-leaning political independent, was no fan of the Trump administration, and admits the pair havenât spoken since. âThereâs a lot of bad stuff that went on there. I donât get it,â he says. âIâll leave it at that.â