Fantastic! All my years in NYC I never knew much about The Donald except the bad press meted out to him over aspects of his social life - mostly Ivana’s dragging him around to charity events in the 70s & 80s where he sat at parties looking bored. I didn’t know he was bored because he wanted to get back to his office.
It’s been a pleasant education for me.
Excellent.
I’ve seen other stories by people who know him, all say basically the same thing, this article pretty much sums them all up.
Seems a good time to remember the skating rink in New York he rebuilt.
Here’s the NYT article apparently published before it was done
http://www.nytimes.com/1986/05/31/nyregion/trump-offers-to-rebuild-skating-rink.html
And another published after it was finished.
http://articles.philly.com/1986-11-01/news/26094092_1_ice-rink-donald-trump-trump-time
Two months ahead of schedule and $750,000 under budget.
IN an interview this was mentioned, he said he didn’t know a thing about ice rinks, and found out the person in charge of making the ice was from Florida. Florida? What does he know about ice? So he called a friend and told him the situation, the friend recommended someone from Canada. Now he knows ice. (paraphrasing Trump’s comments)
So he looked it over and tore everything out. Pour3ed a foot thick concrete base instead of the 4 inch previously considered sufficient. Got the guy from Canada to set up a salt water based method of making ice. It was frozen in a couple of hours. No leaks, all PVC instead of leaky, problematic copper tubing, easy to maintain.
Notice what he did? Took on a project he knew nothing about, called in the best he could find, got it done ahead of schedule and under budget. With no knowledge of how to build such a thing...
Is that what we need in the White House or what?
Dear Washington,
America is coming
And they’re bringing Donald J Trump.
“mostly Ivana’s dragging him around to charity events in the 70s & 80s where he sat at parties looking bored.”
In his 1990 book, Surviving at the Top, Trump spent a few pages complaining about these sort of social events that Ivana forced him to go to. He hated their “pretentiousness” and found them “mind-numbing.” He actually listed these things as one of the reasons why his marriage collapsed, and he said he preferred to hang around his casino customers than the “phonies” in society because the casino folks were often from “modest backgrounds” and were more “real.”