Posted on 07/31/2015 5:58:01 PM PDT by conservativejoy
Donald Trump remembers exactly when he realized his father was beginning to fade. About six years ago, they were driving down Fifth Avenue when he gave his father big news: he had just bought the land beneath the Empire State Building. ''That's a tall building, isn't it?'' Fred C. Trump replied. ''How many apartments are in that building?'' At first, Donald thought he was kidding. But his father, 87, was developing Alzheimer's.
Fred Trump died last June in Queens, at 93. Donald had visited him in the hospital that night and got the call later when he was by himself, high up in Trump Tower. He cried. It was the saddest day of his life, he says.
The son, now considering a run for the presidency, likes to present himself as a self-made man. But how much of him did his father make? Long before young Trump was putting up glass-and-bronze curtain walls on Fifth Avenue and selling apartments for $38 million, his father was putting bird cages in lobbies to dress up Queens apartment houses -- and releasing balloons on Coney Island at the height of summer with coupons inside for $50 off on a $4,990 Trump home.
(Excerpt) Read more at nytimes.com ...
The problem with the “self-made man” meme is twofold:
1) he inherited very big money and position from dad.
2) the money he made was largely from the underside of the economy, promoting huge gambling, and the more tawdry forms of entertainment, appealing to the more base instincts. Legal? Yes. Admirable? Not so much.
Maggie might know a back door
This is a research thread Please source all comments thank you
Thanks Maggie
Joy linked your thread here and in repositoryTrump
http://www.freerepublic.com/focus/f-chat/3324827/posts
You might enjoy the articles at 3 & 8
Hi, thanks for the links. It’s Texas and 2:30 am the eyes are heavy the the pillow calls. Your links will be clicked first thing tomorrow. Thanks again. Look forward the reading the info
Just returned from the Conservative Tree House finding a doozie there and the answer to a silent question of why now and why Trump? If you’ve an interest in what was found try this. Nighty nite.
http://theconservativetreehouse.com/2015/08/15/trump-gives-a-glimpse-of-the-golden-arrow-targeted-toward-mcconnelldonohues-achilles-heel-intensely-strategic/
Our search %o find his background. Good sound German work ethic. Which the farmers of the midwest share. Read THE LAST FARMED by an ex-Rolling Stone editor who threw his conservative roots out when he went to college and eventually returned to the farm and his roots
Have thought of the similarities
Thanks for linking article. Please feel free.to link any other articles you find
Thank you for calling my attention to this, I had missed this thread. And I did enjoy the articles. Interesting family history. Imagine going to the Alaska goldfields at 16yrs old.
If you do start a ping list, please put me on it.
Not sure what it is but it’s been pointed out that Palin has a connection to same vicinity
Am still searching for someone to handle the ping list. Can give you a dozen names off the top of head but using cell makes it difficult to manipulate a list
Sorry trying to get used to a new tablet which edits my edits. By the time my editing is finished its a mess but need.something larger than cell as eyes are fading
Here you go. I’ve bought over a dozen copies. Loan them out and that person gives them to family and I just buy used ones now
http://www.barnesandnoble.com/mobile/w/the-last-farmer-howard-kohn/1112183474?ean=9780803278158
Start here. At 3. Any articles or links are always appreciated
Used books were cheap Got 4 for $2 at one bookstore
With a little time, I can find a “Signed” 1st edition for next to nothing.
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