Posted on 08/21/2020 10:53:53 AM PDT by Beowulf9
Many of you may know the story of how Donald Trump saved the Wollman Skating Rink in New York City.
Especially those of you who’ve read The Art of the Deal (one of my all-time favorite books and now back in stock on Amazon!).
But if you don’t know the story, it’s really worth hearing.
It will make you love and admire our President all the more!
It’s classic Trump. Perserverance, determination, hard work and common sense thinking all rolled into one!
(Excerpt) Read more at welovetrump.com ...
I’m from New York City and I know the story.
I will tell you another story. A tragedy happened in Manhattan that changed this country forever. And there were all sorts of ideas of what should replace what had been destroyed.
All crazy ideas came about but one brilliant man with vision and a pulse on the people produced a miniature version of the exact twin towers the way they were and that is what we all wanted except the families of victims.
this was a man who knew what was best for Manhattan and who knew what would make it thrive again.
Instead some Maniac created a slanted funny-looking needle like building which stands today that makes the New York skyline from the ferry look like garbage now.
see they never care about the common person anymore. I feel bad for those that lost loved ones but many millions wanted the original buildings.
and the only man who had vision enough and concern enough for the average citizen was Donald Trump. And he was the man who presented the miniature version of the world trade center just as it was and just as we wanted.
I knew then that there was something very special about him
but even I could never guess what greatness was yet to come
I remember that, I remember he had a ton of support, (from regular people) not political people for his idea of rebuilding the twin towers
The reason was, they were iconic, it made the skyline, the skyline.
What is there now, I agree is crap.
Didn’t some angry New Yorkers decide to boycott the rink when decided to run for President. Or was that a swimming pool?
I can’t believe you remember to that too. Isn’t it heartbreaking?
to paraphrase The Godfather... I wept. Why did I weep? Because the world trade center and the New York skyline were beautiful. Now they will never be beautiful again.
When PDJT (then DJT) got it working, it was sensational. Even some of Trump's political enemies (of whom there were many) had to admit — when asked by reporters who pursued them down the street — that Donald Trump had done something wonderful that all New Yorkers could enjoy. Their admiration, though grudging, seemed sincere at the time.
I knew about Donald Trump, of course; he was building a big casino in Atlantic City, and was a well known personality in NYC. Nightly TV tabloid show A Current Affair hired a lip reader to figure out what Marla Maples was saying when she was using the house phone on the ground floor of Trump Tower (the key phrase was "OK, Champ").
But the Wollman rink thing really changed my perception of Donald Trump. I remember thinking he was a bit like one of Ayn Rand's characters.
This is a guy I love !
I did not even know most of what you told me to be honest. I did not follow it that closely. But I could see how that could change one’s opinion of him.
for you it was that. For me it was his vision of the world trade center. And I’m sure there are other things he did that made people think maybe this guy could be a great leader.
But a Conservative Christian? I think I would have doubled over laughing if someone told me he would ever be that.
Ironically I should have known what he was doing because I did it on interviews and with higher up bosses myself several times.
you agree with idiotic left-of-center ideas. You nod. You say yeah that could work. Because you need a job and you need to hold that job and hopefully advance.
But once I had enough time and higher ups behind me I would speak the truth.
it’s terrible that game has to be played but I guess politics is a game played everywhere
Leonard Tose losing his trucking company by gambling it all away in AC. The MOVE seige and subsequent fire, which happened just a few blocks from where I lived. Teddy Pendergrass's little "accident" in Wissahickon Park. An incident with a gerbil that ended the career of an extremely popular Philadelphia media personality. Many personal problems and experiences that had to be worked through. My first exposure to "the homeless," who my Philadelphia friends called "vent men" at the time. Many, many others.
But Donald Trump was a presence. I heard a story at one of the jobs I had in NJ that Donald Trump had paid off a guy's mortgage after the guy pulled over to offer assistance to a limo that was pulled off on the shoulder of the NJ Turnpike; the limo happened to be carrying Donald Trump and some of his AC staff. This was after the helicopter crash that claimed the lives of some of his top people as they were commuting from NYC to AC for meetings. When that happened, btw, Donald Trump was interviewed and he was quite emotional, really shocked and nearly unable to speak.
Okay at this point I would say you know quite a bit more New York stories than I do and I have lived here and worked in Manhattan for 20 years :-).
Maybe the radio covers more topics than the newspapers.
Or maybe my memory just sucks or yours is great :-)
Swimming pools can’t boycott anything. All they can do is lie there and be a swimming pool ;)
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