Trump Quotes

“Another time, as they walked down Lexington Avenue together, Trump saw a newspaper headline announcing the arrest of a New Jersey mayor for allegedly taking an $800,000 bribe from a developer. “There is no goddamn mayor in America worth $800,000,” Trump bellowed. “I can buy a U.S. senator for $200,000.”
― Wayne Barrett, Trump: The Greatest Show on Earth: The Deals, the Downfall, the Reinvention

“The truth was that the city was losing manufacturing jobs at a pace five times worse than the national average, and one of the reasons for its loss of 800,000 industrial jobs since 1962 was, expert after expert concluded, the decline of rail freight service. Several government studies had to concede, despite the bias toward the more glamorous and profit-intensive Trump-like development of these yards, that “a substantial market demand” existed for a real rail terminal at either 60th or 34th Streets. In fact, the ailing railroad industry was beginning to make a strong comeback outside of New York by the end of the seventies, aided by escalating fuel costs, which were putting truckers at a sudden disadvantage. A West Side terminal at either of the Trump yards would not only have positioned the city to take advantage of this economic shift, it would also have dramatically reduced truckload traffic through clogged Manhattan streets. Trump’s simultaneous hold on both of the potential terminal sites for almost half a decade may have been a fatal blow to a manufacturing revival in New York.”
― Wayne Barrett, Trump: The Greatest Show on Earth: The Deals, the Downfall, the Reinvention

“I’ll never marry and I’ll die before I’m forty,”
― Wayne Barrett, Trump: The Greatest Show on Earth: The Deals, the Downfall, the Reinvention

“Trump added that he’d bought the building so cheaply the contract barred him from revealing its price, and Moore commented that it was “amazing” that Donald had found “something positive” in the article or in the whole situation at 100 Central Park South. “Sell, Donald,” Moore urged. “Sell at $30 million. Please, make your money. Take your money. Make your huge profit and just go away. It’s not personal, but people will always be afraid living with you as a landlord.” “Well, you know,” Donald”
― Wayne Barrett, Trump: The Greatest Show on Earth: The Deals, the Downfall, the Reinvention

“In fact he’d already transcended his no-nonsense old man, but he liked to pretend he’d done it on his own, announcing that “the working man likes me because he knows I didn’t inherit what I’ve built” and contemptuously deriding what he called the Lucky Sperm Club of hereditary, do-nothing wealth. “You know me pretty well,” he told one reporter. “Do you think anybody helped me build this fortune?” He insisted there would have been no Plaza or Trump Tower if Fred called the shots. The Trump legend—invented by Donald himself—never acknowledged the defining imprint of Fred’s money and hard-boiled business sense on the solid early deals that were the foundation of his success. Donald”
― Wayne Barrett, Trump: The Greatest Show on Earth: The Deals, the Downfall, the Reinvention

“No person of color has ever held a top executive post in his organization and even his suited security army inside the tower is virtually all white. Race,”
― Wayne Barrett, Trump: The Greatest Show on Earth: The Deals, the Downfall, the Reinvention