“I mean, Forty Wall Street actually was the second-tallest building in downtown Manhattan, and it was actually before the World Trade Center was the tallest, and then when they built the World Trade Center it became known as the second tallest, and now it’s the tallest,” Trump told the interviewer, his voice passing tinnily through the telephone. It wasn’t even true—Forty Wall Street was not the neighborhood’s second-tallest building—but Trump’s mind was clearly on his own interests as New York City reeled.
