before he was a presidential candidate
and I've been saying for years keep the
oil keep the oil don't let him have the
oil before he was a reality TV star you
fired Donald Trump was a New York
tabloid fixture all through the 1980s
Trump was busy building something new
and it wasn't a skyscraper billionaire
developer Donald Trump has put his name
on a New York City hotel shopping center
and apartment buildings as well as a
casino in Atlantic City and now he's
going to put his name on a big piece of
Eastern Airlines Trump was creating a
public Persona one that could be both
funny and demeaning arrogant and somehow
in touch with the common man I sort of
love and hate him at the same time I
mean I think he has you know a
Monumental ego he comes off as being
very uh what's the word I'm looking for
arrogant yeah he's he's he's arrogant I
like him man got a made got everything
he often did this by picking fights he
said I think Donald Trump is an Artful
liar I think think he is a greedy
vicious and arrogant man well I don't
know is that supposed to be a compliment
or not I'm I'm not sure he waged a
yearslong battle with New York city
mayor Ed cotch I I hope that New York
City has a different mayor at some point
because I think Ed cotch is a total
disaster he's been a very bad May for
the city he helped launch a competitor
to the NFL called the US football league
and then launched a lawsuit against the
NFL when the usfl failed the jury in the
case delivered its verdict it ruled the
NFL did indeed monopolize wi pro
football but it awarded damages of just
$1 and in one of his biggest fights of
the 1980s he went up against media Mogul
MV Griffin in a fight over a casino in
Atlantic City people realize now that MV
made a bad deal it's unfortunate that
he's taken a fall but he has taken the
fall nothing much I can do about it
Donald loves that perception I won I won
I won he is still you know a year later
standing in New York going I won I won I
won he wants to make sure everybody in
America knows he won but the Donald
Trump we know today is more than just a
boastful brawler that's because there's
one more tactic that Trump apparently
learned in the 80s and uses to great
effect on the campaign Trail today keep
people guessing about any long-term
plans Mr Trump what's left in your life
you're 33 years old you're worth all
this money you say you didn't say that
you want to be worth a billion doll no I
really don't I just want to keep busy
and keep active could a billion dollars
buy the White House what do you think
money give I know a lot the politicians
I like a lot of the politicians they're
friends of M Trump carefully cultivated
speculation about his future in 1987 he
ran a fullpage ad in major newspapers
that read like a political Manifesto a
blow up of the ad is now on display at
Trump Tower on Fifth Avenue the ad was
irresistible to the New York press and
the move kept Trump's name in the news
Trump has said quite seriously that he's
a good enough Barger to negotiate a
nuclear disarmament treaty with the
Russians this is not a wealthy country
people think America you know wealth
this and that the Japanese are saying
that what a wealthy country I mean
they're saying it and they're laughing
country is losing $200 billion a year we
ought to go in the next time they fire
so much as a bullet at one of our ships
we ought to go in and take over their
Royal with each of these instances Trump
refined his Playbook his attacks Steve
you're going to have to start pushing
these people now a little bit cuz it's
getting a little ridiculous as far as
I'm concerned his boasts will probably
sell an extra 10,000 season tickets and
that's a lot of tickets and his shifting
positions do you you have the the genes
to be a successful politician well you
never really know I I think I'm pretty
outspoken and that's not probably a good
thing in terms of a politician but it's
a good thing if you ever got elected you
can really do a job now even back in the
80s many found trumps over the-top
personality distasteful what may be most
discouraging of all is that Palm Beach
will accept almost anything if it's got
enough money but somehow it will not
accept Donald Trump but by playing the
role of an unpredictable bully with the
mightest touch Trump showed he couldn't
easily be ignored I believe that perhaps
I'm portrayed differently than I I
actually am I believe I'm portrayed in a
rougher sense than the actual product
and I hope that's true because I hope
the actual product is a lot more mellow
than the portrayal and that may be his
biggest asset of all when people attack
Trump they reinforce the version of
trump that Trump wants people to see and
inevitably that keeps Trump's name in
the news that doesn't matter because I'm
not running for
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