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How Child Star-Turned-Millionaire Brock Pierce Spent the Years Between Hollywood & Presidential Bid

When Brock Pierce sat in President Bill Clinton’s Oval Office chair during a visit to the White House in 1996, the young actor — then starring in a comedy about playing the president's son — didn’t realize what the moment would mean to him about a quarter century later. https://people.com/politics/brock-pierce-announces-presidential-run/ https://people.com/tag/bill-clinton “To this day, it just brings me incredible joy,” he says. “It’s not an everyday thing.” Pierce, improbably, now says he wants it to be. The former child star-turned-cryptocurrency entrepreneur announced his last-minute bid on July 4 — the same day as a much larger celebrity, Kanye West, also tossed his hat into the ring to challenge President Donald Trump and former Vice President Joe Biden in the 2020 race. https://people.com/politics/kanye-west-campaign-challenges-in-illinois/ https://people.com/tag/donald-trump/ https://people.com/tag/joe-biden/ In a wide-ranging interview about what he has been up to since his mid-90s acting career, Pierce tells PEOPLE that going back to the White House has been on his mind for a long time. “I’ve been thinking about it my whole life," says Pierce, 39. "It’s always felt like a calling." That goal, he says, has traveled with him through a shifting post-acting career of business ventures, political encounters, lavish experiences around the world and a wild wedding at Burning Man. But all of that started when Pierce — a 3-year-old hockey-loving boy from Minnesota — began taking on small roles in commercials and later landed a supporting role in *The* *Mighty Ducks* series, leading to a 13-year career in Hollywood.