--- title: Donald Trump Campaign: Watch a Video Overview description: As we head into the final days of the 2016 election, TIME took a look back at some of the highs and lows of Trump's campaign. canonical: https://time.com/4554954/donald-trump-campaign-video-highlights/ author: TIME Video article:opinion: false article:content_tier: free article:published_time: 2016-11-02T15:55:40.000Z article:modified_time: 2026-08-19T07:45:22.939Z article:section: Politics og:title: Watch a Brief History of Trump's Presidential Campaign og:description: A video of his high and low points. og:url: https://time.com/4554954/donald-trump-campaign-video-highlights/ og:site_name: TIME og:image: https://static.time.com/v3/assets/bltea6093859af6183b/blt4108b5a01fbd436d/698861dacd1bbabcdb6fcfb7/gettyimages-477326252.jpg?branch=production&width=840&quality=75&auto=webp&crop=16:9 og:image:width: 840 og:image:height: 473 og:image:alt: Donald Trump Makes Announcement At Trump Tower og:type: article twitter:card: summary_large_image twitter:title: Watch a Brief History of Trump's Presidential Campaign twitter:description: A video of his high and low points. twitter:image: https://static.time.com/v3/assets/bltea6093859af6183b/blt4108b5a01fbd436d/698861dacd1bbabcdb6fcfb7/gettyimages-477326252.jpg?branch=production&width=840&quality=75&auto=webp&crop=16:9 ---  # Watch a Brief History of Donald Trump's Presidential Campaign > Sponsored content. 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From a campaign launch in which he [tore up the script](http://time.com/3922770/donald-trump-campaign-launch/)—and tore into Mexican immigrants—to his unexpected and sometimes [off-color campaigning](http://time.com/4247366/republican-debate-donald-trump-small-hands-penis/), the New York real estate mogul has broken a lot of political traditions. As we head into the final days of the 2016 election, TIME took a look back at some of the highs and lows of Trump’s campaign. **Read More:** [_Watch a Brief History of Hillary Clinton’s Presidential Campaign_](http://time.com/4555007/hillary-clinton-campaign-video-highlights/) ```json [{"@context":"https://schema.org","@type":"NewsArticle","@id":"https://time.com/4554954/donald-trump-campaign-video-highlights/","mainEntityOfPage":{"@type":"WebPage","@id":"https://time.com/4554954/donald-trump-campaign-video-highlights/"},"headline":"Watch a Brief History of Donald Trump's Presidential Campaign","datePublished":"2016-11-02T15:55:40.000Z","dateModified":"2026-08-19T07:45:22.939Z","description":"As we head into the final days of the 2016 election, TIME took a look back at some of the highs and lows of Trump's campaign.","url":"https://time.com/4554954/donald-trump-campaign-video-highlights/","keywords":["Donald Trump","2016 Election"],"thumbnailUrl":"https://static.time.com/v3/assets/bltea6093859af6183b/blt4108b5a01fbd436d/698861dacd1bbabcdb6fcfb7/gettyimages-477326252.jpg?branch=production&width=1200&quality=75&auto=webp&crop=1200:675&height=675","author":[{"@type":"Person","name":"TIME Video","jobTitle":null,"url":"https://time.com/author/time-video/"}],"articleSection":"Politics","image":[{"@type":"ImageObject","url":"https://static.time.com/v3/assets/bltea6093859af6183b/blt4108b5a01fbd436d/698861dacd1bbabcdb6fcfb7/gettyimages-477326252.jpg?branch=production&width=1200&quality=75&auto=webp&crop=1200:675&height=675","width":1200,"height":675,"headline":"Donald Trump Makes Announcement At Trump Tower","caption":"Donald Trump Makes Announcement At Trump Tower","creditText":"Christopher Gregory—Getty Images","representativeOfPage":true}],"publisher":{"@type":"Organization","name":"Time","url":"https://time.com/","logo":{"@type":"ImageObject","url":"https://time.com/images/logo.png","width":528,"height":156},"foundingDate":"March 3, 1923","sameAs":["https://www.facebook.com/time","https://www.instagram.com/time/?hl=en","https://twitter.com/time","https://www.pinterest.com/timemagazine"]}},{"@context":"https://schema.org","@type":"BreadcrumbList","itemListElement":[{"@type":"ListItem","position":1,"item":{"@id":"/section/politics/","name":"Politics"}},{"@type":"ListItem","position":2,"item":{"@id":"/tag/donald-trump/","name":"Donald Trump"}},{"@type":"ListItem","position":3,"item":{"@id":"https://time.com/4554954/donald-trump-campaign-video-highlights/","name":"Watch a Brief History of Donald Trump's Presidential Campaign"}}]}] ```