Trump by Those Who Know Him Best
By JOSEPH RAGO
June 24, 2016 6:11 p.m. ET
... “I like to work in broad strokes, deal with the big picture, but not the details,” Mr. Trump writes in the foreword. “For the details, I rely almost entirely on George” ...
Mr. O’Donnell is not a Trump fan, so perhaps he is unreliable when he reveals that Mr. Trump does not tip waiters as a matter of principle. Or that the mogul was “preoccupied with a fear of communicable disease, especially AIDS” and considered hot tubs “a potential breeding ground” for the virus. Or that Mr. Trump believed “that the human body was like a battery: It stored only so much vitality, and when that was used up, it weakened and died.” He tells Mr. O’Donnell that “you are going to die young” because he competed in triathlons ...
Barbara Res, the engineer in charge of the construction of Trump Tower, notes that he had a policy of spending money only where it could be seen. Thus while his lobbies are extravagant, the apartments were floored in glue-down laminates ...
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