As mentioned at tonight’s rally.
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=FL6mKCwYo1w
Trump did in 3 1/2 months what the city couldn’t do in 6 years.
What’s really AMAZING about the video is not Trump, but how classy Mayor Koch was in being upstaged by Trump.
The world was a different place back then, or at least this country was a different place.
The Wollman skating rink had been a leaf-filled decaying hole in the ground for about twenty years.
The NYC Dept. of Parks and Recreation said it would cost something like $20 million (like $75 million today) to fix it.
Trump had it all fixed up in a matter of weeks, and he paid for it himself.
Many others failed at the same job of getting the rink up and running.
What Trump did - that was brilliant - is he asked himself who would be best at dealing with ice rinks. And he came up with the answer: Canadian companies that were used to dealing with ice. The rest is history.
Watch: Donald Trump Celebrated as Model Citizen in NYC. News Coverage on Wollman Rink from 1987@DonaldJTrumpJr
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How quickly they forget... pic.twitter.com/2dRW69HaiB— Wojciech Pawelczyk (@WojPawelczyk) November 2, 2019
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