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"The Fallout" (Part 2)
3 months ago
General
Hello everyone, and welcome to the part 2 of this super-topic. To not waste time with recaps and clarifications, just below, in a separate section, I will put the previous part, with its respective link, and the disclaimers corresponding to this one, also separately.
Part prior to this one
Part 1: https://www.furaffinity.net/journal/11204491/
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2. The use of the phrase "conspiracy theory" per se, or similar to that, which is linked to what it means in the entertainment media and/or the hegemonic media as a primary method of denial and/or disapproval of the content of this note, as well as the sources attached to it, will not be taken as truthful either.
3. The owner of this journal doesn't have any kind of personal adherence (personal/selfish reasons), contractual (legal reasons) or constitutional (constitutional reasons) with political figures, political parties, social organizations/entities and/or countries/nations based on the use of political agendas and/or any kind of activism that causes damage to material goods, the environment and/or towards other human beings (whether physical or psychological) for any reason that is considered unjustified after being first analyzed based on reason and ethics, with the sample or presence of compelling evidence corresponding to the cases mentioned above. The rejection of such agendas and/or activism will be even higher and forceful in cases that imply going against human nature in terms of any harm, deprivation, destruction and deterioration of the individuality of the human being and/or any society composed of human beings for unjustifiable reasons.
That said, and to get to the point, here is the continuation of the subtopic dedicated to Donald Trump (started in the first part), which contains more general information about him, and related:
Evidence that ratifies or refutes some of the things associated with Donald Trump, as well as, occasionally, his relationship with other people (political figures or not), and political parties in the United States as well.
2) Donald Trump never represented, or cared about, ordinary people and/or regular workers.
Evidence A.
The 1990 Playboy Interview With Donald Trump
https://www.playboy.com/read/playboy-interview/playboy-interview-donald-trump-1990/
Highlighted fragments from the article above as evidence:
1- “The billion-dollar baby was born in the exclusive Jamaica Estates in Queens, New York, on June 14, 1946, to a mere millionaire, real-estate developer Fred Trump, who had racked up his $20,000,000 fortune building low-to-middle-priced homes and apartments in Brooklyn and Queens.”
2- “Taking a hard look at Manhattan’s troubled fortunes, he fastened onto the bankruptcy of the Penn Central Railroad as his ticket into the big time and nimbly plucked options on Penn’s Hudson River railroad yards, now the site of New York’s Convention Center, and its 59-year-old Commodore Hotel, now the Grand Hyatt. The coup was in his persuading bankers to lend him $80,000,000 and in talking politicians into awarding him a $120,000,000 tax abatement.”
3- “In 1979, at the age of 33, he snapped up the Fifth Avenue site of the old Bonwit Teller for $20,000,000, won a $140,000,000 tax abatement and three years later finished Trump Tower, a 68-story dazzler that includes a six-story atrium and today draws 100,000 visitors daily, with residents such as Johnny Carson and Steven Spielberg.”
4- “Playboy: Okay. But here we are at the start of a new decade. How do you respond when people call you ostentatious, ego-ridden and a greedy symbol of the Eighties?
Trump: Rich men are less likely to like me, but the working man likes me because he knows “I worked hard and didn’t inherit what I’ve built”. Hey, “I made it myself”; I have a right to do what I want with it.
Playboy: With so much poverty on the city streets, isn’t it embarrassing for you to flaunt your wealth?
Trump: There has always been a display of wealth and always will be, until the depression comes, which it always does. And let me tell you, a display is a “good thing”.
It shows people that you “can be successful”. It can show you a way of life. Dynasty did it on TV. It’s very important that people aspire to be successful. The only way you can do it is if you look at somebody who is.”
5- “Playboy: You have a lot of enemies in New York City, among them a group that opposes your building a huge Trump City on the Hudson that will include the world’s tallest building–on the theory that it will ruin the West Side and cause unbearable congestion. What do you say to them?
Trump: Point one: There were more people living on the West Side of New York in the Forties than there are today. “Very few people understand that”.
Point two: Trump City is going to be an “architectural masterpiece”.
Point three: “The city” desperately needs the taxes, the housing and the shopping that will produce billions of dollars in revenue. Yet that community group [West Pride] fights every job.
“Those people fight for the sake of fighting”. I honestly believe that if I proposed an eighty-acre park, they would come out and fight me.
“Selfishly”, they like what they have and don’t want to give it to anybody else. We need another Rockefeller Center–especially now that Mitsubishi has bought most of the one we had.”
6- ““If I had been the son of a coal miner, I would have left the damn mines. But most people don’t have the imagination—or whatever—to leave their mine. They don’t have ‘it.'””
7- ““Well even if I ever ran for office, I’d do better as a Democrat than as a Republican—and that’s not because I’d be more liberal, because I’m conservative. But the working guy would elect me. He likes me.””
Evidence B.
BEFORE THE GOLD RUSH How Angelo Donghia Tried (And Failed) To Make Trump Tower Tasteful by Jesse Kornbluth
https://web.archive.org/web/20170201090352/https://www.buzzfeed.com/jessek49223aa90/before-the-gold-rush-the-legendary-decorator-who-tried-and-f?utm_term=.onmPkx7BB#.edmJ91mBB
Highlighted fragments from the article above as evidence:
1- “In the early ’80s, when he was a rising real estate mogul with dreams of being accepted into Manhattan high society, Donald Trump hired superstar decorator Angelo Donghia to turn his massive new midtown triplex into a tastefully appointed showcase of class and taste. You will absolutely believe what happened next.”
2- “Now consider the Trump Tower triplex. Its esteemed decorator had a staff of 125, owned 10 companies, didn’t take a residential job that cost less than $300,000 — Angelo Donghia was considered America’s first superstar designer. In 1983, when Trump cut the ribbon on his tower and moved in, he was still years away from the yacht and the plane and the Trump Shuttle and The Art of the Deal. So Angelo Donghia designing and decorating the triplex didn’t, back then, add to Donghia’s status; it added to Trump’s. But the image of Trump’s home that you envision when you close your eyes — the all-gold everything — isn’t Donghia’s work. Trump took Donghia’s subtle, sophisticated approach and turned it into his version of a showplace — a sunglasses-required vulgarity that Tony Montana and Saddam Hussein would envy.”
3- “Most articles about the tower cite Trump’s exaggeration of the building’s size as if it were correct. And in every article about Trump’s triplex I’ve seen, Angelo Donghia is named as the designer. That’s not quite accurate. The triplex has been Trumpified — an unnamed designer turned it into a Vegas funhouse. In Jane Mayer’s New Yorker piece about Tony Schwartz, who co-authored The Art of the Deal with Trump, she wrote that the ghostwriter’s impression of the apartment when he started working with Trump late in 1985 was that the apartment looked “unlived-in, like the lobby of a hotel.” Or, perhaps, the lobby of a casino. “All the gilded boiserie was put in after we finished,” says Chuck Chewning, who was creative director of Donghia Inc. for eight years and curated the Angelo Donghia: Design Superstar exhibit at the New York School of Interior Design in 2015. “Ivana hired a casino designer to redo it. There’s very little of Angelo left.”
Donghia’s entrance hall remains intact, but once you get upstairs his clean, luxurious decor has been vulgarized to the point of self-parody. A ceiling features paintings of scenes from Greek mythology. The Greek influence continues with a bronze statue of Eros and Psyche. Above the fountain is a painting of Apollo, riding his chariot.
What’s sometimes described as “French rococo design” is also the theme in rooms that guests never see. Violating the universal rule that you avoid overhead lighting in a bedroom, Donald and Melania’s bedroom features a massive chandelier. The bed? Gold. It’s been reported that Trump says the gold on the headboard and the bench is real.
Picture an entire room dipped in gold, right down to throw pillows that bear a golden Trump coat of arms. How much gold is in the triplex? So much that when Donald and Melania’s son Barron was born, Ellen DeGeneres sent a matching golden stroller as a baby present.”
4- “In his final months, did Angelo Donghia brood about Trump’s desecration of his work? Not likely. “I suspect the redecoration may have been redone shortly after he died,” Tim Macdonald told me. “I have no idea if Angelo even knew it was in the works. I certainly didn’t.””
Evidence C.
We visited Trump Tower, and it perfectly epitomizes its eccentric, contradictory owner
https://qz.com/646029/we-visited-trump-tower-and-it-perfectly-epitomizes-its-eccentric-contradictory-owner
Highlighted fragments from the article above as evidence:
1- “The golden elevators are flanked by men in black suits. One of them is Johnny Gonzalez. “I don’t feel like a doorman here,” he said. “Everybody is really nice, and Mr. Trump knows all of us by name.”
The 27-year-old Puerto Rican American has worked at Trump Tower for over eight years, even appearing in a couple of shots in “The Apprentice.” Aside from his full-time job, Gonzalez is studying accounting at the European School of Economics located on the 19th floor of the building. (The private British business school has no connection to Mr. Trump or to his scandal-embroiled Trump University). Once he has his degree, Gonzales hopes to work for one of the many financial firms in Trump Tower. (He isn’t the only one who sees his current job as a stepping stone. Another doorman, who didn’t want to be named, completed his MBA a while ago.)
Gonzalez is excited about Trump running for president. “We were all hoping he would do it,” he said. “Everybody here, we all love Trump. We know the real Trump.””
2- “A couple of controversy-laden months later, people were more cautious. “Some of the stuff he says is okay, some of the stuff he says is, you know, asinine,” said Nick Ingrassia, a young filmmaker from Long Island. “As long as he keeps leading, we will not be able to get rid of him.””
3- “...During the fall, Trump’s presidential campaign was confined almost exclusively to Trump Tower. He hosted several rallies and required networks to do all his political interviews in the atrium. “Now we see Mr. Trump a lot less,” said his doorman Johnny Gonzalez. “We used to see him almost every day, now we see him maybe three or four times a month.” But the Trump Tower staff—a lot of them minorities who passionately defend Trump against all accusations of racism—still get to share in some political moments.”
4- “While Trump is flying around the country, his staff is masterminding his campaign on the fifth floor. The biggest surprise about the campaign offices is how “very much at odds they are with the rest of building,” said Ali Elkin, a former Bloomberg Politics reporter, who visited them in the summer. Housed on the former set of “The Apprentice,” the offices set a stark contrast to the splendor of the rest of the building. Bloomberg photos show raw walls, exposed pipes, and loose-hanging cables surrounding the handful of people trying to get the political outsider elected.”
Clarifications and explanations regarding the evidences presented in this segment (2).
Regarding the many fragments quoted from the article corresponding to evidence A, I apologize for that, but I needed to show enough to understand the context, as well as the relationship between that evidence and what is established in this segment. Regarding evidence B, the excuse is similar to that for evidence A, except that it was also for the purpose of refuting some things associated with the Trump Tower triplex, as well as exposing a little more of Donald Trump's personality. And regarding evidence C, for more context, it is recommended to read between the lines of what is underlined in the fragments quoted therein.
3) Donald Trump was never a Republican, nor did he belong to the right wing (based on what those two things mean in US culture, of course).
Evidence A.
FOX & Friends, April 11, 2016
• https://archive.org/details/FOXNEWS.....0_FOX__Friends
• https://dn720709.ca.archive.org/0/i.....X__Friends.mp4
• https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=PIQQyakx5_U
Highlighted fragment from the main video above as evidence (between 2:53 and 3:02).
Evidence B.
Donald Trump tells Joe Rogan he us to be a Democrat
https://www.youtube.com/shorts/8i9rsBkQ9Zg
Evidence C.
Donald Trump: I was a Democrat (CNN interview with Don Lemon)
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=qUlUZ9MywWI
Warning 1: The source cited above , as evidence ( C ), still may have low levels of inaccurate and/or misleading information; readers discretion is advised.
Evidence D.
Donald Trump: A Secret Democrat? | msnbc
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=XhhYQBmWOL4
Warning 2: The source cited above , as evidence (D), still may have low levels of inaccurate and/or misleading information; readers discretion is advised.
Evidence E.
Donald Trump in 2004: Democrats Are Better for U.S. Economy
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=_k2og1ZmZhw
Evidence F.
Jeb Bush: Trump Doesn't Have a Conservative Record, He's Been a Dem for Majority of Past Decade
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=boahINNLYUo
Evidence G.
The 1990 Playboy Interview With Donald Trump
https://www.playboy.com/read/playboy-interview/playboy-interview-donald-trump-1990/
Highlighted fragment from the article above as evidence:
Evidence H.
Donald Trump was once a registered Democrat and party donor. So why did he jump ship?
https://www.sbs.com.au/news/article/donald-trump-was-once-a-registered-democrat-and-party-donor-why-did-he-jump-ship/wj85mj5yq
Highlighted fragments from the article above as evidence:
1- “But before they were political rivals, Trump was actually one of Harris' financial donors.
State records show that Trump donated US$6,000 ($9,107) in total to the then-California attorney-general's campaign — US$5,000 ($7,589) in September 2011 after she was first elected, and another US$1,000 ($1,518) in 2013.
At the time of both donations to Harris' campaign, Trump was registered as a Republican.”
2- “"It's very common, not unlike it is in Australia, for individuals and businesses to donate to both major parties, basically in the hope has a kind of insurance move, I suppose, in the hope of maintaining influence when and if somebody gets into a position of power – so I think it's likely that he was seeking to influence something in the Harris campaign.
"It's also more broadly an indication that Trump doesn't really have an ideology, he will swing to wherever he thinks it's politically convenient to him."”
Link to the graph shown in the article corresponding to this evidence (H):
https://external-content.duckduckgo.com/iu/?u=https%3A%2F%2Ftse4.mm.bing.net%2Fth%2Fid%2FOIP.EtxWm-qqbRnTDz8w3z_0rwHaFf%3Fpid%3DApi&f=1&ipt=7f5cb2e91dc45e393b3a1ea278ac3c4886e03332e37321a4832684cdd90d5ebe&ipo=images
Warning 3: The source cited above , as evidence (D), still may have low levels of inaccurate and/or misleading information; readers discretion is advised.
Evidence I.
Is Trump Republican? Timeline of President's Shifting Political Views After He Sides With Democrats (September 7, 2017)
https://www.newsweek.com/trump-republican-democrats-president-661340
Highlighted fragments from the article above as evidence:
1- “In 1987, the year his famed book The Art of the Deal was released, Trump registered as a Republican in New York, according to Politifact. The following year, he even floated the idea of running for the party's presidential nomination. Yet, despite his stated allegiance to the GOP, Trump donated more money to Democrats than Republicans between 1989 and 2009.
Further demonstrating his political promiscuity, Trump turned his back on both major parties in 1989 by registering as an independent. In 2000, he mounted his first actual run for president, as a candidate for the Reform Party. Despite an early withdrawal from the contest, he won the party's primary in California.
Trump's allegiance switched again in 2001, when he registered as a Democrat. Speaking in 2004, Trump shed some light on his rationale.”
2- “But before long, Trump was turning once again. In 2009, less than a year after Barack Obama's election win, he had switched back to the Republican Party. That would last for just two years, however, before the real-estate magnate registered as an independent in order to leave his options open for a third-party run in the 2012 election. As it turned out, Trump returned to the GOP fold just a few months later and endorsed Republican candidate Mitt Romney in his losing battle against Obama.
Since that time, Trump has been a reliable and prolific donator to the GOP. He has not, though, been a reliable follower of the party line. During the 2016 campaign, he frequently launched vociferous attacks against his Republican primary opponents, the Republican leadership and past Republican presidents. He also refused to rule out running as an independent if he failed to secure the Republican nomination.”
Evidence J.
Most of Donald Trump's Political Money Went To Democrats — Until 5 Years Ago (July 28, 2015)
https://www.npr.org/sections/itsallpolitics/2015/07/28/426888268/donald-trumps-flipping-political-donations
Highlighted fragment from the article above as evidence:
Evidence K.
Awkward: How Trump’s past donations could haunt 2020 Dems
https://www.politico.com/story/2019/03/05/2020-presidential-dems-trump-money-1202938
Highlighted fragment from the article above as evidence:
Evidence L.
Political positions of Donald Trump – Wikipedia
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Political_positions_of_Donald_Trump
Highlighted fragment from the article above as evidence:
“The organization and website On the Issues has classified Trump in a variety of ways over time:
• "Moderate populist" (2003)
• "Liberal-leaning populist" (2003–2011)
• "Moderate populist conservative" (2011–2012)
• "Libertarian-leaning conservative" (2012–2013)
• "Moderate conservative" (2013–2014)
• "Libertarian-leaning conservative" (2014–2015)
• "Hard-core conservative" (2015)
• "Libertarian-leaning conservative" (2015–2016)
• "Moderate conservative" (2016–2017)
• "Hard-core conservative" (2017–present)”
Warning 4: The source cited above , as evidence (L), still may have medium levels of inaccurate and/or misleading information; readers discretion is advised.
Clarifications and explanations regarding the evidences presented in this segment (3).
Regarding the why of the overabundance of evidence in this segment, there is a simple and direct answer, and it is with the purpose of addressing what is in it from all possible angles to avoid and minimize any possible doubt, controversy, and/or conflict associated with it, on the part of any reader.
About the evidences themselves, I have nothing to say since I am saving myself for when I have to give the conclusion of this super-topic, which will mention some of the things related to this segment, either as a revelation/twist; that's for sure. And finally, regarding the Wikipedia fragment, mentioned and shown in evidence L, that's just out of curiosity.
* deep breath *
Okay, that's all for this part , regarding this subtopic. I apologize if this part is longer than the previous one, but it's important to clarify that what you see here is the bulk of the subtopic in question. The next part, part 3, will not only be just as substantial as this one—my apologies again—but it will also be the last part of the subtopic on Donald Trump per se, and related; just wanted to add that.
Well, I hope that the content of this part, or at least part of it, has been interesting and informative for everyone, and with nothing more to add, I can only say: sorry for the inconveniences caused, until next time, greetings and have a nice day/night to all of you.
Part prior to this one
Part 1: https://www.furaffinity.net/journal/11204491/
Disclaimers
1. Any act of denial and refutation against any data, statements and proof mentioned or presented in this journal based on mentions, suggestions or uses of information sources coming from and/or promoted by hegemonic media (US, UK and others), social media, Wikipedia (including variations thereof as well), Fact Checkers and any entity pertaining to and/or related to the oligarchy, may be ignored and/or taken with great skepticism by any reader, in case he/she so desires. The reasons are based on the absence of credible, reliable and/or truthful information, whether in part or in whole, from the aforementioned sources/entities/groups/organizations due to many of the controversies and/or scandals associated with them.
2. The use of the phrase "conspiracy theory" per se, or similar to that, which is linked to what it means in the entertainment media and/or the hegemonic media as a primary method of denial and/or disapproval of the content of this note, as well as the sources attached to it, will not be taken as truthful either.
3. The owner of this journal doesn't have any kind of personal adherence (personal/selfish reasons), contractual (legal reasons) or constitutional (constitutional reasons) with political figures, political parties, social organizations/entities and/or countries/nations based on the use of political agendas and/or any kind of activism that causes damage to material goods, the environment and/or towards other human beings (whether physical or psychological) for any reason that is considered unjustified after being first analyzed based on reason and ethics, with the sample or presence of compelling evidence corresponding to the cases mentioned above. The rejection of such agendas and/or activism will be even higher and forceful in cases that imply going against human nature in terms of any harm, deprivation, destruction and deterioration of the individuality of the human being and/or any society composed of human beings for unjustifiable reasons.
That said, and to get to the point, here is the continuation of the subtopic dedicated to Donald Trump (started in the first part), which contains more general information about him, and related:
Evidence that ratifies or refutes some of the things associated with Donald Trump, as well as, occasionally, his relationship with other people (political figures or not), and political parties in the United States as well.
2) Donald Trump never represented, or cared about, ordinary people and/or regular workers.
Evidence A.
The 1990 Playboy Interview With Donald Trump
https://www.playboy.com/read/playboy-interview/playboy-interview-donald-trump-1990/
Highlighted fragments from the article above as evidence:
1- “The billion-dollar baby was born in the exclusive Jamaica Estates in Queens, New York, on June 14, 1946, to a mere millionaire, real-estate developer Fred Trump, who had racked up his $20,000,000 fortune building low-to-middle-priced homes and apartments in Brooklyn and Queens.”
2- “Taking a hard look at Manhattan’s troubled fortunes, he fastened onto the bankruptcy of the Penn Central Railroad as his ticket into the big time and nimbly plucked options on Penn’s Hudson River railroad yards, now the site of New York’s Convention Center, and its 59-year-old Commodore Hotel, now the Grand Hyatt. The coup was in his persuading bankers to lend him $80,000,000 and in talking politicians into awarding him a $120,000,000 tax abatement.”
3- “In 1979, at the age of 33, he snapped up the Fifth Avenue site of the old Bonwit Teller for $20,000,000, won a $140,000,000 tax abatement and three years later finished Trump Tower, a 68-story dazzler that includes a six-story atrium and today draws 100,000 visitors daily, with residents such as Johnny Carson and Steven Spielberg.”
4- “Playboy: Okay. But here we are at the start of a new decade. How do you respond when people call you ostentatious, ego-ridden and a greedy symbol of the Eighties?
Trump: Rich men are less likely to like me, but the working man likes me because he knows “I worked hard and didn’t inherit what I’ve built”. Hey, “I made it myself”; I have a right to do what I want with it.
Playboy: With so much poverty on the city streets, isn’t it embarrassing for you to flaunt your wealth?
Trump: There has always been a display of wealth and always will be, until the depression comes, which it always does. And let me tell you, a display is a “good thing”.
It shows people that you “can be successful”. It can show you a way of life. Dynasty did it on TV. It’s very important that people aspire to be successful. The only way you can do it is if you look at somebody who is.”
5- “Playboy: You have a lot of enemies in New York City, among them a group that opposes your building a huge Trump City on the Hudson that will include the world’s tallest building–on the theory that it will ruin the West Side and cause unbearable congestion. What do you say to them?
Trump: Point one: There were more people living on the West Side of New York in the Forties than there are today. “Very few people understand that”.
Point two: Trump City is going to be an “architectural masterpiece”.
Point three: “The city” desperately needs the taxes, the housing and the shopping that will produce billions of dollars in revenue. Yet that community group [West Pride] fights every job.
“Those people fight for the sake of fighting”. I honestly believe that if I proposed an eighty-acre park, they would come out and fight me.
“Selfishly”, they like what they have and don’t want to give it to anybody else. We need another Rockefeller Center–especially now that Mitsubishi has bought most of the one we had.”
6- ““If I had been the son of a coal miner, I would have left the damn mines. But most people don’t have the imagination—or whatever—to leave their mine. They don’t have ‘it.'””
7- ““Well even if I ever ran for office, I’d do better as a Democrat than as a Republican—and that’s not because I’d be more liberal, because I’m conservative. But the working guy would elect me. He likes me.””
Evidence B.
BEFORE THE GOLD RUSH How Angelo Donghia Tried (And Failed) To Make Trump Tower Tasteful by Jesse Kornbluth
https://web.archive.org/web/20170201090352/https://www.buzzfeed.com/jessek49223aa90/before-the-gold-rush-the-legendary-decorator-who-tried-and-f?utm_term=.onmPkx7BB#.edmJ91mBB
Highlighted fragments from the article above as evidence:
1- “In the early ’80s, when he was a rising real estate mogul with dreams of being accepted into Manhattan high society, Donald Trump hired superstar decorator Angelo Donghia to turn his massive new midtown triplex into a tastefully appointed showcase of class and taste. You will absolutely believe what happened next.”
2- “Now consider the Trump Tower triplex. Its esteemed decorator had a staff of 125, owned 10 companies, didn’t take a residential job that cost less than $300,000 — Angelo Donghia was considered America’s first superstar designer. In 1983, when Trump cut the ribbon on his tower and moved in, he was still years away from the yacht and the plane and the Trump Shuttle and The Art of the Deal. So Angelo Donghia designing and decorating the triplex didn’t, back then, add to Donghia’s status; it added to Trump’s. But the image of Trump’s home that you envision when you close your eyes — the all-gold everything — isn’t Donghia’s work. Trump took Donghia’s subtle, sophisticated approach and turned it into his version of a showplace — a sunglasses-required vulgarity that Tony Montana and Saddam Hussein would envy.”
3- “Most articles about the tower cite Trump’s exaggeration of the building’s size as if it were correct. And in every article about Trump’s triplex I’ve seen, Angelo Donghia is named as the designer. That’s not quite accurate. The triplex has been Trumpified — an unnamed designer turned it into a Vegas funhouse. In Jane Mayer’s New Yorker piece about Tony Schwartz, who co-authored The Art of the Deal with Trump, she wrote that the ghostwriter’s impression of the apartment when he started working with Trump late in 1985 was that the apartment looked “unlived-in, like the lobby of a hotel.” Or, perhaps, the lobby of a casino. “All the gilded boiserie was put in after we finished,” says Chuck Chewning, who was creative director of Donghia Inc. for eight years and curated the Angelo Donghia: Design Superstar exhibit at the New York School of Interior Design in 2015. “Ivana hired a casino designer to redo it. There’s very little of Angelo left.”
Donghia’s entrance hall remains intact, but once you get upstairs his clean, luxurious decor has been vulgarized to the point of self-parody. A ceiling features paintings of scenes from Greek mythology. The Greek influence continues with a bronze statue of Eros and Psyche. Above the fountain is a painting of Apollo, riding his chariot.
What’s sometimes described as “French rococo design” is also the theme in rooms that guests never see. Violating the universal rule that you avoid overhead lighting in a bedroom, Donald and Melania’s bedroom features a massive chandelier. The bed? Gold. It’s been reported that Trump says the gold on the headboard and the bench is real.
Picture an entire room dipped in gold, right down to throw pillows that bear a golden Trump coat of arms. How much gold is in the triplex? So much that when Donald and Melania’s son Barron was born, Ellen DeGeneres sent a matching golden stroller as a baby present.”
4- “In his final months, did Angelo Donghia brood about Trump’s desecration of his work? Not likely. “I suspect the redecoration may have been redone shortly after he died,” Tim Macdonald told me. “I have no idea if Angelo even knew it was in the works. I certainly didn’t.””
Evidence C.
We visited Trump Tower, and it perfectly epitomizes its eccentric, contradictory owner
https://qz.com/646029/we-visited-trump-tower-and-it-perfectly-epitomizes-its-eccentric-contradictory-owner
Highlighted fragments from the article above as evidence:
1- “The golden elevators are flanked by men in black suits. One of them is Johnny Gonzalez. “I don’t feel like a doorman here,” he said. “Everybody is really nice, and Mr. Trump knows all of us by name.”
The 27-year-old Puerto Rican American has worked at Trump Tower for over eight years, even appearing in a couple of shots in “The Apprentice.” Aside from his full-time job, Gonzalez is studying accounting at the European School of Economics located on the 19th floor of the building. (The private British business school has no connection to Mr. Trump or to his scandal-embroiled Trump University). Once he has his degree, Gonzales hopes to work for one of the many financial firms in Trump Tower. (He isn’t the only one who sees his current job as a stepping stone. Another doorman, who didn’t want to be named, completed his MBA a while ago.)
Gonzalez is excited about Trump running for president. “We were all hoping he would do it,” he said. “Everybody here, we all love Trump. We know the real Trump.””
2- “A couple of controversy-laden months later, people were more cautious. “Some of the stuff he says is okay, some of the stuff he says is, you know, asinine,” said Nick Ingrassia, a young filmmaker from Long Island. “As long as he keeps leading, we will not be able to get rid of him.””
3- “...During the fall, Trump’s presidential campaign was confined almost exclusively to Trump Tower. He hosted several rallies and required networks to do all his political interviews in the atrium. “Now we see Mr. Trump a lot less,” said his doorman Johnny Gonzalez. “We used to see him almost every day, now we see him maybe three or four times a month.” But the Trump Tower staff—a lot of them minorities who passionately defend Trump against all accusations of racism—still get to share in some political moments.”
4- “While Trump is flying around the country, his staff is masterminding his campaign on the fifth floor. The biggest surprise about the campaign offices is how “very much at odds they are with the rest of building,” said Ali Elkin, a former Bloomberg Politics reporter, who visited them in the summer. Housed on the former set of “The Apprentice,” the offices set a stark contrast to the splendor of the rest of the building. Bloomberg photos show raw walls, exposed pipes, and loose-hanging cables surrounding the handful of people trying to get the political outsider elected.”
Clarifications and explanations regarding the evidences presented in this segment (2).
Regarding the many fragments quoted from the article corresponding to evidence A, I apologize for that, but I needed to show enough to understand the context, as well as the relationship between that evidence and what is established in this segment. Regarding evidence B, the excuse is similar to that for evidence A, except that it was also for the purpose of refuting some things associated with the Trump Tower triplex, as well as exposing a little more of Donald Trump's personality. And regarding evidence C, for more context, it is recommended to read between the lines of what is underlined in the fragments quoted therein.
3) Donald Trump was never a Republican, nor did he belong to the right wing (based on what those two things mean in US culture, of course).
Evidence A.
FOX & Friends, April 11, 2016
• https://archive.org/details/FOXNEWS.....0_FOX__Friends
• https://dn720709.ca.archive.org/0/i.....X__Friends.mp4
• https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=PIQQyakx5_U
Highlighted fragment from the main video above as evidence (between 2:53 and 3:02).
“i'm coming in to do something positive. i'm an outsider. the system is rigged. i see it. i see it now, 100%. and by the way, not just on our side. i think it's worse on the republican side...”Evidence B.
Donald Trump tells Joe Rogan he us to be a Democrat
https://www.youtube.com/shorts/8i9rsBkQ9Zg
Evidence C.
Donald Trump: I was a Democrat (CNN interview with Don Lemon)
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=qUlUZ9MywWI
Warning 1: The source cited above , as evidence ( C ), still may have low levels of inaccurate and/or misleading information; readers discretion is advised.
Evidence D.
Donald Trump: A Secret Democrat? | msnbc
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=XhhYQBmWOL4
Warning 2: The source cited above , as evidence (D), still may have low levels of inaccurate and/or misleading information; readers discretion is advised.
Evidence E.
Donald Trump in 2004: Democrats Are Better for U.S. Economy
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=_k2og1ZmZhw
Evidence F.
Jeb Bush: Trump Doesn't Have a Conservative Record, He's Been a Dem for Majority of Past Decade
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=boahINNLYUo
Evidence G.
The 1990 Playboy Interview With Donald Trump
https://www.playboy.com/read/playboy-interview/playboy-interview-donald-trump-1990/
Highlighted fragment from the article above as evidence:
““Well even if I ever ran for office, I’d do better as a Democrat than as a Republican—and that’s not because I’d be more liberal, because I’m conservative. But the working guy would elect me. He likes me.””Evidence H.
Donald Trump was once a registered Democrat and party donor. So why did he jump ship?
https://www.sbs.com.au/news/article/donald-trump-was-once-a-registered-democrat-and-party-donor-why-did-he-jump-ship/wj85mj5yq
Highlighted fragments from the article above as evidence:
1- “But before they were political rivals, Trump was actually one of Harris' financial donors.
State records show that Trump donated US$6,000 ($9,107) in total to the then-California attorney-general's campaign — US$5,000 ($7,589) in September 2011 after she was first elected, and another US$1,000 ($1,518) in 2013.
At the time of both donations to Harris' campaign, Trump was registered as a Republican.”
2- “"It's very common, not unlike it is in Australia, for individuals and businesses to donate to both major parties, basically in the hope has a kind of insurance move, I suppose, in the hope of maintaining influence when and if somebody gets into a position of power – so I think it's likely that he was seeking to influence something in the Harris campaign.
"It's also more broadly an indication that Trump doesn't really have an ideology, he will swing to wherever he thinks it's politically convenient to him."”
Link to the graph shown in the article corresponding to this evidence (H):
https://external-content.duckduckgo.com/iu/?u=https%3A%2F%2Ftse4.mm.bing.net%2Fth%2Fid%2FOIP.EtxWm-qqbRnTDz8w3z_0rwHaFf%3Fpid%3DApi&f=1&ipt=7f5cb2e91dc45e393b3a1ea278ac3c4886e03332e37321a4832684cdd90d5ebe&ipo=images
Warning 3: The source cited above , as evidence (D), still may have low levels of inaccurate and/or misleading information; readers discretion is advised.
Evidence I.
Is Trump Republican? Timeline of President's Shifting Political Views After He Sides With Democrats (September 7, 2017)
https://www.newsweek.com/trump-republican-democrats-president-661340
Highlighted fragments from the article above as evidence:
1- “In 1987, the year his famed book The Art of the Deal was released, Trump registered as a Republican in New York, according to Politifact. The following year, he even floated the idea of running for the party's presidential nomination. Yet, despite his stated allegiance to the GOP, Trump donated more money to Democrats than Republicans between 1989 and 2009.
Further demonstrating his political promiscuity, Trump turned his back on both major parties in 1989 by registering as an independent. In 2000, he mounted his first actual run for president, as a candidate for the Reform Party. Despite an early withdrawal from the contest, he won the party's primary in California.
Trump's allegiance switched again in 2001, when he registered as a Democrat. Speaking in 2004, Trump shed some light on his rationale.”
2- “But before long, Trump was turning once again. In 2009, less than a year after Barack Obama's election win, he had switched back to the Republican Party. That would last for just two years, however, before the real-estate magnate registered as an independent in order to leave his options open for a third-party run in the 2012 election. As it turned out, Trump returned to the GOP fold just a few months later and endorsed Republican candidate Mitt Romney in his losing battle against Obama.
Since that time, Trump has been a reliable and prolific donator to the GOP. He has not, though, been a reliable follower of the party line. During the 2016 campaign, he frequently launched vociferous attacks against his Republican primary opponents, the Republican leadership and past Republican presidents. He also refused to rule out running as an independent if he failed to secure the Republican nomination.”
Evidence J.
Most of Donald Trump's Political Money Went To Democrats — Until 5 Years Ago (July 28, 2015)
https://www.npr.org/sections/itsallpolitics/2015/07/28/426888268/donald-trumps-flipping-political-donations
Highlighted fragment from the article above as evidence:
“...Since 1989, donations in Donald Trump's name have totaled around $1.4 million (adjusted for inflation) to national-level parties, candidates, and other committees. Around two-thirds of that has gone to Republican groups and candidates, according to an NPR analysis of data from the Center for Responsive Politics. However, Trump's decisive tilt toward giving to Republicans has only come in the last few years.
(That grey bar in 1999 comes from when Trump donated $50,000 to the "Donald Trump New York Delegate Committee — a committee to which he was the sole listed donor, per CRP.)
...Between 2010 and 2015, 97 percent of all of his donations have gone to Republicans. Prior to that, Democrats had been the primary beneficiaries, taking more than half of Trump's donations between 1989 and 2009."Evidence K.
Awkward: How Trump’s past donations could haunt 2020 Dems
https://www.politico.com/story/2019/03/05/2020-presidential-dems-trump-money-1202938
Highlighted fragment from the article above as evidence:
“Harris, Booker and Gillibrand — along with Joe Biden, John Kerry and Terry McAuliffe — all share a common bond of receiving Trump family donations, adding another wrinkle to a crowded primary where candidates are expected to trumpet their distance from the president.
An ideological shapeshifter whose decades in the public eye have spanned stints as a Republican, Democrat, Reform Party candidate and independent, Trump has donated across the spectrum from the establishment left to the far right. The recipients include both Senate Minority Leader Chuck Schumer (D-N.Y.) and politically exiled Rep. Steve King (R-Iowa).”Evidence L.
Political positions of Donald Trump – Wikipedia
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Political_positions_of_Donald_Trump
Highlighted fragment from the article above as evidence:
“The organization and website On the Issues has classified Trump in a variety of ways over time:
• "Moderate populist" (2003)
• "Liberal-leaning populist" (2003–2011)
• "Moderate populist conservative" (2011–2012)
• "Libertarian-leaning conservative" (2012–2013)
• "Moderate conservative" (2013–2014)
• "Libertarian-leaning conservative" (2014–2015)
• "Hard-core conservative" (2015)
• "Libertarian-leaning conservative" (2015–2016)
• "Moderate conservative" (2016–2017)
• "Hard-core conservative" (2017–present)”
Warning 4: The source cited above , as evidence (L), still may have medium levels of inaccurate and/or misleading information; readers discretion is advised.
Clarifications and explanations regarding the evidences presented in this segment (3).
Regarding the why of the overabundance of evidence in this segment, there is a simple and direct answer, and it is with the purpose of addressing what is in it from all possible angles to avoid and minimize any possible doubt, controversy, and/or conflict associated with it, on the part of any reader.
About the evidences themselves, I have nothing to say since I am saving myself for when I have to give the conclusion of this super-topic, which will mention some of the things related to this segment, either as a revelation/twist; that's for sure. And finally, regarding the Wikipedia fragment, mentioned and shown in evidence L, that's just out of curiosity.
* deep breath *
Okay, that's all for this part , regarding this subtopic. I apologize if this part is longer than the previous one, but it's important to clarify that what you see here is the bulk of the subtopic in question. The next part, part 3, will not only be just as substantial as this one—my apologies again—but it will also be the last part of the subtopic on Donald Trump per se, and related; just wanted to add that.
Well, I hope that the content of this part, or at least part of it, has been interesting and informative for everyone, and with nothing more to add, I can only say: sorry for the inconveniences caused, until next time, greetings and have a nice day/night to all of you.
