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LessAspin

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5. Noel Casler FTW
Tue Dec 22, 2020, 12:09 AM
Dec 2020

Last edited Tue Dec 22, 2020, 12:52 AM - Edit history (2)



Trump’s executive order banning modern designs for all federal buildings is not about his love of french neoclassicism is much as it’s a parting gift to his friends in the concrete industry if you know what mean. I call this architectural style: bada-bing arts.

Back in the 1980s and 1990s, Trump’s buildings and his casinos attracted underworld figures like “Fat Tony” Salerno, the Fedora-wearing, cigar-chomping boss of the Genovese crime family. Salerno, who’s portrayed in the film by Domenick Lombardozzi, supplied the fast-drying concrete that built Trump Tower and other Trump properties. Salerno also controlled the local concrete workers union, and when a strike shut down construction in Manhattan in 1982, the one of the few buildings that wasn’t affected was Trump Tower.

https://www.rollingstone.com/politics/politics-news/the-real-life-mob-families-of-the-irishman-donald-trump-knew-them-922836/

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