Keeping up with the Trumps

[Boomer]

^ That is one huge chandelier!

I like her though - she seems... sweet..

Ivana!!? Oh Lord- don't get me started on that one...!! The stories I heard from the people who worked with her everyday at the casino she ran in Atlantic City...you wouldn't believe it!!

 

[farou7a]

REALLY?!

Is she a difficult person? We have that in common, if she is..

 

[Boomer]

^ Well she was in charge of one of the largest casino/hotels with zero training or business experience and walked around like Donald screaming at everyone and raising hell- at least people had some respect for her husband who had grown up in business and gone to the best schools- Ivana wanted that sort of regard by being a bully and terrorizing people- she was actually in way over her head and became a running joke that everyone avoided as much as possible...

 

[farou7a]

Oh gosh.. Shes impatient too..

We should meet and have Trump gourmet tea together and b*tch about the help!



On a serious note - isnt she educated in that field?

 

[Boomer]

No, she has a degree in physical education...

 

[farou7a]

^ WHATTTTT???

really?

 

[Boomer]

Yes, from the University of Prague...she was a skier who was not on the Olympic Team, as Donald often said...and she was also not 'one of Canada's top models' nor a licensed interior decorator- which he also always said... Donald hated it when a couple of good journalists started digging into the families past; so much of the Trump Myth is just that- a myth... and some of the details are not very nice...Like his grandfather's string of brothels in the Klondike...

 

[Boomer]

At Miss Universe...

Yahoo.com / Gettyimages.com

 

[farou7a]

Yes, from the University of Prague...she was a skier who was not on the Olympic Team, as Donald often said...and she was also not 'one of Canada's top models' nor a licensed interior decorator- which he also always said... Donald hated it when a couple of good journalists started digging into the families past; so much of the Trump Myth is just that- a myth... and some of the details are not very nice...Like his grandfather's string of brothels in the Klondike...

WHOA

Nothing really stays buried if you're well-known..

 

[Boomer]

^ Very true! My favorite is how Donald said in his autobiography that his ancestors came from Sweden (good blond hair and blue eyes, I guess...) when they were all very much from Germany; the Swedish myth evidently was started by his father during World War II because so many of the people who bought his homes in Brooklyn and Queens were Jewish, and they didn't want to appear to be German! And when the truth came out- Donald claimed to have never been told about that, forgetting, no doubt, that his grandmother was from Germany and spoke with a strong accent!!

 

[farou7a]

They look german- ish..

just ish.. esp his kids!

I often wonder how people can lie so much in their autobiographies! I mean dont their friends laugh at them?!?!?

 

[Boomer]

^ And then to say your family never told you!!

 

[farou7a]

No more apple strudel for him!

I actually find myself funny! Excuse the lameness.

But wow.. Just wow..

 

[Boomer]

How about the legendary Trump Princess?? Pretty cool boat, all 282 feet of it; it was in fact used in the James Bond movie 'Thunderball'! Donald (as usual) talked about how he bought it in 1988 for $30 million- it was in fact owned by the bondholders of the Trump Castle Casino as a 'promotional vehicle'- lots of high roller parties...it was ultimately repossessed by the bank (for non payment) and sold off for a song...The funniest thing was there was a huge oil painting of it in the lobby of the hotel, and everybody would ask "Where is the Trump Princess??"...Ummm- in for maintenance, I'm sure...Another Trump-tastic Deal!!

Gettyimages.com

 

[Boomer]

My scans from New York Magazine

 

[Boomer]

One of the beautiful Boeing 727s from the Trump Shuttle Airline (1989-1992)...sold off (at a huge loss) to US Air during the bankruptcy...

airliners.net

 

[indepwe]

I'm sure they are hardly broke though even selling it for a huge loss ^

 

[Boomer]

^ Well, Donald was very much broke at one time- he owed many millions more than he had, but by selling off things and getting the banks to give him time he clawed his way back up...for a while there in 1990 it looked like he was finished...

 

[shoesexy]

How is The Donald's combover weave doing these days ... ?

 

[farou7a]

Dont they have hedge fund managers and other people who manage their mon mons?

almost broke.. whoa..