What’s that on your face?” Trump was asked. The question came from Ribis, who sometimes worked out of an office next door to Trump’s on the twenty-sixth floor of Trump Tower, convenient for winning the boss’s attention on a particular matter. Ribis was in the middle of a phone call, with Marcus on the line, when Trump wandered by his open office door and poked his head in. “Makeup,” Trump replied. “Why?” asked Marcus, inserting himself into the conversation over speakerphone. In later years, Trump would routinely put orange-hued foundation over his rosacea-afflicted skin, but at forty-nine,
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