Posted on 11/30/2015 11:21:19 AM PST by GonzoII
After she joined Donald Trump's real estate business, Louise Sunshine struggled to maintain a steady weight while managing her new career alongside the busy schedules of three young children.
Trump must have noticed, SunÂshine said. She recalled that he kept an unflattering photograph of her in a drawer - a "fat picture," as she called it - that he would pull out when she did something he didn't like.
It was "a reminder that I wasn't perfect," said Sunshine, who worked with Trump for 15 years starting in the mid-1970s when he set about remaking Manhattan's skyline. "He just is that way."
Sunshine said she bears no grudges and instead considers Trump a valued mentor. A political fundraiser with no prior real estate expertise, Sunshine ascended to executive vice president of the Trump Organization, joining a cadre of female executives who have played central roles in Trump's empire.
Trump called Sunshine's account of the photograph "totally false and ridiculous," but her feelings illustrate a paradox about the Republican front-runner.
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But many women who have worked closely with Trump say he was a corporate executive ahead of his time in providing career advancement for women. While some say he could be boorish, his companies nurtured and proÂmoted women in an otherwise male-dominated industry. Several women said they appreciated how Trump granted them entry to a new playing field.
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Woman mania has been a pitfall of rich, wise men since when?
Well, at least since King Solomon.
It is a shame, obviously. But it strangely does not furnish the rest of us much of a moral pedestal. If a smart man like that can get led around by the wrong head, then how much more the redoubtable Donald Trump.
Neither Ivana nor Marla were saints - despite what you’d like to believe. It takes two to make a marriage go wrong. And he didn’t dump Marla for his third wife. That seems to have been a bad marriage from the get-go.
When I had lunch at Trump Tower this summer - and the Donald was right there with his spaghetti! - his busboys and waiters were singing his praises and asking people to vote for him. That said ALOT to me.
This 'wise' man (not rich) has an Opel GT mania (69-73).
Had five once; still got 3 1/2 and none of them run.
I still tell the wife that I'll get around to fixing one or two... someday.
I hope that this wasn’t an equivalent of a Disney employee telling a person to “Have a Disney day!”
Personally, and YMMV, but when I go out for lunch I'd really prefer the busboys and waiters do their jobs and not sing the praises of any political candidate and or ask me to vote for their boss. And what that could say is that they are told to do this.
Just as while I know I'm in the minority, I actually like Starbucks coffee but I don't want to be lectured by the barista on race issues or on anything not related to coffee.
Boy, you must be fun of a dinner date.
I am actually - we should do lunch sometime as I think you'd be a delightful dining companion. : ) We've conversed before about food and restaurants and NYC and I think we'd have a blast.
And having worked in retail and in various forms of customer service for many years and having had lot's of friends who were and are in retail or who are restaurant servers, I'm very kind to and very patient and understanding about things beyond the server's control and I am also, unless the serve (or hair stylist or barista, moving men, etc.) are very rude or extremely incompetent, I am a very generous tipper as I know how hard they work and what they often have to deal with in working with the public.
I am just saying if I go to a restaurant or any other type of business establishment, I don't want to be lectured by the staff on political matters or on who I should vote for. If I engage them in such a conversation, that's a different matter. But in that case I would expect them to be honest and not necessarily say "Vote for my boss".
Perhaps the busboys and servers at the Trump Tower restaurant are very sincere and they truly really love Trump and all he stand for and these are unsolicited and unbiased endorsements but then again,.....
Or let me put it another way.
Here in PA our current governor is a liberal RAT - Tom Wolf. Wolf was the owner and CEO of Wolf Organization Inc, according to their website - "the largest supplier of kitchen cabinets in the U.S. and a leading provider of specialty building products." So while Wolf was running for PA governor, should I have been, if I was buying kitchen cabinets, subjected to a plea to vote for Wolf by his paid employees or not have been suspicious that their motives for doing so were perhaps more related to keeping their jobs rather than expressing their sincere opinions?
No one lectured anyone. What happened is that The Donald chose to have lunch in the grill with Maureen Dowd that day. That sent people in the lobby of the Tower crazy and they lined up to have photos taken. This inspired conversation within the grill and the less expensive food court to talk to the staff who enthusiastically endorsed him and spoke about what a good boss he was. I found that extremely interesting - you will not find that kind of talk at Martha Stewart Enterprises or in the old Helmsley world of real estate or the offices of David Letterman. Also, having worked as a waitress, I enjoy talking to wait staff. This has gotten me into trouble in London where treating waiters as a human being is considered gauche and plebian.
And as someone who worked for 30 years in Manhattan, a good boss is hard to come by and I left the grill very impressed.
My apologies. Your comment just came across as cavalier and dismissive. I missed that you were attributing that attitude to others, not you.
No worries.
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