tax credits: Klemesrud, “Donald Trump, Real Estate Promoter.”
“$200 million”: Ibid.
Fred’s control: Harry Hurt III, Lost Tycoon: The Many Lives of Donald J. Trump (New York: W. W. Norton, 1993), 84.
that trust alone: State of New Jersey, October 16, 1981, PDF50.
“to fire you”: Interview with Ravitch. Decades after the difficult meeting with Ravitch, Trump still nursed the grudge. In 2009, when New York governor David Paterson appointed Ravitch as his lieutenant governor, Trump wrote to the governor, calling Ravitch “extremely weak, ineffective and a poor negotiator.” Through the years, Ravitch refrained from responding publicly to Trump, he said, because “my guiding principle is you don’t get into pissing contests with skunks.”
at Roy Cohn’s law firm: Interview with Stanley Friedman, 2016.
uptown from the Commodore: Klemesrud, “Donald Trump, Real Estate Promoter.”
sparse furnishings: Interview with Scadron.
“each other”: Ibid.
“the top models”: Trump and Schwartz, Art of the Deal (1987), 19.
to the West: D’Antonio, Never Enough, 119.
“griping and bitching”: Donald Trump, The Art of the Comeback (New York: Times Books/Random House, 1997), 147.
“couldn’t have both”: Donald Trump and Charles Leerhsen, Trump: Surviving at the Top (New York: Random House, 1990), 53.
“just a nice all-American kid”: Ivana Trump, The Best Is Yet to Come: Coping with Divorce and Enjoying Life Again (New York: Simon & Schuster, 1995), 65.
Tiffany diamond ring: Hurt, Lost Tycoon, 104.
as many as four or five contracts: Barrett, Trump, 5.
after the wedding: Ibid., 137.
“a grave threat”: Zion, Autobiography, 236.
“supermodels getting screwed”: Quoted in O’Brien, TrumpNation, 53.
“just a lawyer”: Trump interview with Fisher and Kranish.
“his greatest student”: Paul Schwartzman, “How Trump Got Religion—and Why His Legendary Minister’s Son Now Rejects Him,” Washington Post, January 21, 2016.
“our time”: Ibid.
“I never think of the negative”: New York Times, August 7, 1983.
two hundred people attended: D’Antonio, Never Enough, 123.
“next something”: Interview with Friedman.
“pushing the baby carriage”: Trump interview with Fisher and Kranish.
“no idea what to do”: Jonathan Van Meter, “Growing Up Trump,” New York, December 13, 2004.
“on his terms”: Donald Trump Jr. interview with Dan Zak, Washington Post, April 2016.
“It was unheard of for a businessman”: Nikki Haskell interview with Karen Heller, Washington Post, April 13, 2016.
the rats survived: Barbara Res interview with Drew Harwell, Washington Post, March 2016.
“Keep records of everything”: Ibid.
dollar each: Interview with Scadron.
back to his apartment: Trump and Schwartz, Art of the Deal (1987), 123.
“always go”: Klemesrud, “Donald Trump, Real Estate Promoter.”
“collecting rents”: Trump and Schwartz, Art of the Deal (1987), 107.
the dreary area: Carter B. Horsley, “In Environs of Grand Central, New Strength,” New York Times, April 30, 1978.
profit-sharing deal: Geraldine Baum, Tom Hamburger, and Michael J. Mishak, “Trump Has Thrived with Government’s Generosity,” LA Times, May 11, 2011.
shortchanged the city: Ibid.
did not remember: Ibid.
personally guaranteed: Mark Singer, “Trump Solo,” New Yorker, May 19, 1997.
“Oh, I love that site”: Interview with Sunshine.
most pivotal blocks: Trump and Schwartz, Art of the Deal (1987), 151.
“anywhere in the world”: Jonathan Mandell, “Raising Trump’s Tower: How a Cast of Thousands Built One Man’s Answer to the Pyramids,” New York Sunday News, February 13, 1983.
a 50 percent stake: “Trump Pursued a ‘Vision’ of Tower with Tenacity,” New York Times, August 26, 1980.
“shimmering sides”: Ada Louise Huxtable, “Architecture View: A New York Blockbuster of Superior Design,” New York Times, July 1, 1979.
public spaces such as atriums: Anthony DePalma, “Mixed Results Seen in City’s Public Spaces Program,” New York Times, November 2, 1983.
fifty-eight stories: Huxtable, “Architecture View.”
wrote in 1930: Christopher Gray, “The Store That Slipped through the Cracks,” New York Times, October 3, 2014.
would cooperate, too: Interview with Penelope Hunter-Stiebel, 2016.
“destroy them”: Interview with Robert Miller, 2016.
“question of trust”: Interview with Kent Barwick, 2016.
historic preservationists: Trump interview with Fisher and Kranish.
“were nothing”: Graydon Carter, “Donald Trump Gets What He Wants,” GQ, May 1984.
“junk”: Lee Wohlfert-Wihlborg, “In the Manhattan Real Estate Game, Billionaire Donald Trump Holds the Winning Cards,” People, November 16, 1981.
a carved ivory frieze: David Remnick, ed., The New Gilded Age: The New Yorker Looks at the Culture of Affluence (New York: Random House, 2000).
wrecking balls or dynamite: Suzanne Daley, “Bonwit Building Set for the Ultimate Sale,” New York Times, March 16, 1980.
threatened with deportation: Dean Baquet, “Trump Says He Didn’t Know He Employed Illegal Aliens,” New York Times, July 13, 1990.
back payments: Ibid.
He blamed Kaszycki & Sons: Ibid.
sealed in 1999: Tom Robbins, “Deal Sealed in Trump Tower Suit,” New York Daily News, March 8, 1999.
“U.S. taxpayers”: Donald Trump, Time to Get Tough: Making America #1 Again (Washington, DC: Regnery Publishing, 2011).
leave a stain: Interview with Res.
in charge of all construction: Ibid.
wasn’t for women: Ibid.
was so demanding: Mandell, “Raising Trump’s Tower.”
“construction industry in New York”: O’Harrow, “Trump Swam in Mob-Infested Waters.”
accommodate the pool: Barbara Res, All Alone on the 68th Floor (CreateSpace Independent Publishing Platform, 2013), 169.
$150,000: Verina Hixon deposition, September 8, 1989.
deliveries to the building stopped: Interview with Res.
“invite me”: Verina Hixon deposition, May 8, 1986.
seized her Trump Tower apartments: D’Antonio, Never Enough, 135. Hixon could not be reached for comment.
on track: O’Harrow, “Trump Swam in Mob-Infested Waters.”
“through Roy Cohn”: Ibid.
“real scum”: O’Brien, TrumpNation, 70.
$13 million: William E. Geist, “The Expanding Empire of Donald Trump,” New York Times, April 8, 1984.
“driving Rolls-Royces”: Tracie Rozhon, “A Win by Trump! No, by Tenants!; Battle of the 80’s Ends, with Glad-Handing All Around,” New York Times, March 26, 1998.
declined the generous offer: Richard Haitch, “Follow Up on the News; Shelter Game,” New York Times, May 29, 1983.
ratty tinfoil: Carter, “Donald Trump Gets What He Wants.”
he denied all: Ron Suskind, “Trump Eviction Dispute Taken to State Hearing,” New York Times, February 28, 1985.
“low threshold for pain”: Jonathan Mahler, “Tenants Thwarted Donald Trump’s Central Park Real Estate Ambitions,” New York Times, April 18, 2016.
After a five-year standoff: George James, “Trump Drops 5-Year Effort to Evict Tenants,” New York Times, March 5, 1986.
burned through people: Stephen Ifshin, interview with Bob Woodward, Washington Post, May 2016. Trump confirmed Ifshin’s account in an interview with Fisher and Kranish, Washington Post, June 2016.
later renamed Trump Parc East: Trump Parc East promotional website, http://www.trump.com/real-estate-portfolio/new-york/trump-parc-east/.
thirteenth floor: Mahler, “Tenants Thw
arted Donald Trump’s.”
family business: Trump and Schwartz, Art of the Deal (1987), 70.
father’s first and middle names: Rozhon, “Fred C. Trump.”
joined his father: D’Antonio, Never Enough, 58.
being wasteful: Gwenda Blair, The Trumps: Three Generations of Builders and a Presidential Candidate (New York: Simon & Schuster, 2015), 244.
didn’t appreciate him: Jason Horowitz, “For Donald Trump, Lessons from a Brother’s Suffering,” New York Times, January 2, 2016.
Century speedboat: Ibid.
“a killer”: Hurt, “Lost Tycoon: The Many Lives of Donald J. Trump” (New York: W. W. Norton, 1993), 126.
Fred and Mary: Horowitz, “For Donald Trump, Lessons.”
“driving a bus”: Marie Brenner, “After the Gold Rush,” Vanity Fair, September 1990.
Brooklyn apartment complexes: State of New Jersey. Department of Law and Public Safety, Division of Gaming Enforcement, Report to the Casino Control Commission, October 16, 1981, PDF24.
“a good thing for him”: Horowitz, “For Donald Trump, Lessons.”
Lutheran cemetery: FindaGrave.com burial records, http://www.findagrave.com/cgi-bin/fg.cgi?page=gr&GRid=105719907.
“I’ve been through”: O’Brien, TrumpNation, 189.
“one hundred percent”: Barrett, Trump, 4.
“out of you”: Wohlfert-Wihlborg, “In the Manhattan Real Estate Game.”
sold for a combined $277 million: Carter, “Donald Trump Gets What He Wants.”
join them for a tour: Interview with Res.
“to the public”: D’Antonio, Never Enough, 138.
“sell them a fantasy”: “Sell Them a Fantasy; Says Donald Trump. And Every Day, He Does,” New York Times, April 8, 1984.
wealthy foreigners: Res, All Alone on the 68th Floor, 164.
in his closet: D’Antonio, Never Enough, 140.
Charles, Prince of Wales: Albin Krebs and Robert McG. Thomas Jr., “Notes on People,” New York Times, August 4, 1981.
never showed: Mandell, “Raising Trump’s Tower.”
“didn’t hurt us”: Trump and Schwartz, Art of the Deal (1987), 183–84.
$1 million a year: Marilyn Bender, “The Empire and Ego of Donald Trump,” New York Times, August 7, 1983.
middle-American tourists: D’Antonio, Never Enough, 146.
father’s help: Barrett, Deals and the Downfall, 299.
“in some years”: Paul Goldberger, “Architecture: Atrium of Trump Tower Is a Pleasant Surprise,” New York Times, April 4, 1983.
“passing the day”: Res, All Alone on the 68th Floor, 161.
mahogany desk: Interview with Res.
the Plaza and Central Park: “Donald Trump’s Tour of His Manhattan Office,” Wall Street Journal, September 13, 2015.
at least for a time: “Sell Them a Fantasy.”
marriage fell apart: Barrett, Trump, 5.
blue onyx: O’Brien, TrumpNation, 71.
“darkest Africa”: Ibid., 231.
own elevator: Carter, “Donald Trump Gets What He Wants.”
stayed in Queens: Interview with Res.
“what people want”: Carter, “Donald Trump Gets What He Wants.”
actually paid: “Sell Them a Fantasy.”
“I believe in spending”: O’Brien, TrumpNation, 196.
$8.5 million loan: Christopher Boyd, “Sweet Deal: $2,811 Cash Gave Trump $10 Million Mar-A-Lago,” Miami Herald, November 9, 1988.
“Every lender was a starfucker”: Interview with Drew Harwell, Washington Post, April 2016.
Upper West Side: Timothy L. O’Brien, “How Trump Bungled the Deal of a Lifetime,” Bloomberg View, January 27, 2016.
tallest building: “Trump Planning 66th St. Tower, Tallest in World,” New York Times, November 19, 1985.
Rockefeller Center: Ibid.
“grandest plan yet”: Ibid.
hell of a fight: “West Siders Voice Concern on Plan,” New York Times, November 19, 1985.
“bid for immortality”: “The Next Trump Tower and Its Shadow,” New York Times, November 21, 1985.
Opponents lined up: “Celebrities Open Wallets to Fight Trump’s Project,” New York Times, September 30, 1987.
“piggy, piggy, piggy”: Margot Hornblower, “In the Shadow of the Boom; Recovery Strains New York City’s Physical and Social Fabric,” Washington Post, August 24, 1987.
half the density: Interview with Robinson, 2015.
“This is brilliant!”: Ibid.
did not respond: Interview with Roberta Gratz, 2016.
“twice blessed”: Joyce Purnick, “Trump Offers to Rebuild Skating Rink,” New York Times, May 31, 1986.
outside the rink: Interview with Henry Stern, 2016.
on the cover: Thomas Maier, Newhouse: All the Glitter, Power, and Glory of America’s Richest Media Empire and the Secretive Man Behind It (New York: St. Martin’s Press, 1994), 192.
“lack of shame”: Jonathan Yardley, “Trump, the Artless Hustler,” Washington Post, December 2, 1987.
hardcover copies: Interview with Peter Osnos, 2016.
publicity blitz: Gwenda Blair, Donald Trump: The Candidate (New York: Simon & Schuster, 2007), xiii.
were the best: Interview with Res.
“job for life”: Res, All Alone on the 68th Floor, 181.
three security guards: Steve Bollenbach interview with Bob Woodward, 2016.
had stayed open: Interview with Res.
“chew the fat”: Ibid.
through a straw: Barrett, Trump, 3.
his executive assistant: Interview with Res.
“Don’t go in there”: Ibid.
“something else”: Savvy Woman magazine, November 1989.
“have his way”: Otto Friedrich, “Flashy Symbol of an Acquisitive Age: Donald Trump,” Time, January 16, 1989.
even Res, the engineer: D’Antonio, Never Enough, 199.
“being a cartoon”: Interview with Res.
“The show is”: Singer, “Trump Solo.”
CHAPTER 6: “BEST SEX I’VE EVER HAD”
Somewhere in these stacks: Wayne Barrett interview with Robert O’Harrow and Will Hobson, Washington Post, March 2016.
city wracked by corruption: Ibid.
“Wayne! This is Donald”: Barrett, “Like Father, Like Son.”
“never spoken”: Interview with Barrett.
carrot and stick: Barrett, “Like Father, Like Son.”
“I’ll sue”: Ibid.
go to the opera: Interview with Barrett.
“worth it”: Barrett, “Like Father, Like Son.”
damage the reporter had inflicted: Interview with Barrett.
“effective form of promotion”: Trump and Schwartz, Art of the Deal (1987), 56–58.
Zeckendorf employed: D’Antonio, Never Enough, 48–49.
Trump was flattered: Bender, “Empire and Ego of Donald Trump.”
Judy Klemesrud: Klemesrud, “Donald Trump, Real Estate Promoter.”
“He was an outsider”: Interview with Paul Goldberger by Will Hobson, Washington Post, April 2016.
communist sympathizers: Nicholas Von Hoffman, Citizen Cohn (New York: Doubleday, 1988), 76.
Si Newhouse: Ibid., 419.
New York Daily Mirror: Steven Cuozzo, It’s Alive: How America’s Oldest Newspaper Cheated Death and Why It Matters (New York: Times Books, 1996), 10.
“Pink Pajamas”: Ibid., 49.
Page Six: Ibid., 40.
“People sell the paper”: Ibid., 52.
Claudia Cohen: Frank Digiacamo, “The Gossip behind the Gossip”, Vanity Fair, December 2004.
“bodies were buried”: Ibid.
“force for evil”: Cuozzo, It’s Alive, 73.
“Have you ever met . . .”: Liz Smith, “I Think I Invented the Trumps, Part I,” New York Social Diary, August 24, 2015, http://www.newyorksocialdiary.com/guest-diary/2015/liz-smith-i-think-i-invented-the-trumps-part-i.
clippings were usually: D’Antonio, Never En
ough, 153.
New York Construction News: Jerry Useem, “What Does Donald Trump Really Want?,” Fortune, April 3, 2000.
reporter Neil Barsky: Ibid., 405–6.
assigned an intern: Useem, “What Does Donald Trump Really Want?”
cutting the ski-lift line: George Rush and Joanna Molloy, Scandal: A Manual (New York: Skyhorse Publishing, 2013), 96.
Jim Brady: Digiacamo, “Gossip behind the Gossip.”
There was no lawsuit: Ibid.
“master of that”: Interview with Res.
“off the record, but you can use it”: Singer, “Trump Solo.”
“play the game”: George Rush interview with Will Hobson, Washington Post, April 2016.
“his mythmaking apparatus”: Mark Singer interview with Will Hobson, Washington Post, April 2016.
“embodied the American Dream”: Interview with Rush.
“outer-borough accent”: Ed Kosner interview with Will Hobson, Washington Post, April 2016.
“dopamine surge”: John Taylor interview with Will Hobson, Washington Post, April 2016.
“what’s next?”: Jeffrey Breslow interview with Marc Fisher, Washington Post, April 2016.
“doesn’t see the other guy”: Interview with Singer.
pulled back from his friend: Barrett, Trump, 293.
visit Mar-a-Lago: Ibid.
distinct gold-embossed: Interview with Rush.
Carter Wiseman panned: Interview with Kosner.
Goldberger found his dress habits: Blair, Trumps, 372.
“Face of a Dog!”: Gail Collins, “Donald Trump Gets Weirder,” New York Times, April 1, 2011.
downgrading Trump’s wealth: Richard L. Stern and John Connolly, “Manhattan’s Favorite Guessing Game: How Rich Is Donald?,” Forbes, May 14, 1990.
“did that number on me”: Joanna Molloy, “The Daily Intelligencer,” New York, May 21, 1990.
“lived openly as a homosexual”: Trump and Leerhsen, Surviving at the Top, 30–33.
“smart, fun, funny, fearless”: David Folkenflik, “Decades Later, Spy Magazine Founders Continue to Torment Trump,” NPR Morning Edition, March 7, 2016.
Ten Most Embarrassing: Spy, October 1986, 31.
“100 times harder”: Bruce Feirstein, “Trump’s War on ‘Losers’: The Early Years,” Vanity Fair, August 12, 2015, http://www.vanityfair.com/news/2015/08/spy-vs-trump.
“gift that kept on giving”: Andre Tartar, “How the Original Insult War with Donald Trump Was Waged,” Bloomberg Politics, September 11, 2015, http://www.bloomberg.com/politics/articles/2015-09-11/how-the-original-insult-war-with-donald-trump-was-waged.
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