Keeping up with the Trumps

[Boomer]

Well, he would buy a building or a hotel say for $250 mil, get a mortgage for $300 mil to 'fix it all up'- pocket a nice chunk for himself and take the leftover money to buy something else- a classic pyramid scheme... When the real estate market took a turn for the worse (in 1990) he was left with a dozen places that were worth a lot less than he owed, and he couldn't pay back the mortgages...brutal- and his fathers fortune bailed him out more than once...However he was pretty darned clever how he got out of it all- way too boring a finance story but there were a couple of excellent books written about it- he is no dummy- especially when he can use other peoples money!! You wouldn't believe how little of all the "TRUMP" properties he actually owns- very few...He develops them and manages them, but he's a front man with other people putting up the money, most of them are not actually his !!

 

[Boomer]

From the Trump Files: "I'll do anything to get some losers in the door!!"

Trump Wants Strip Club At AC Casino

Scores Atlantic City Could Open By Winter

ATLANTIC CITY, N.J. - Trump Taj Mahal wants to be the first casino in Atlantic City to have a strip club inside its casino.
The New Jersey Casino Control Commission just got the application to put what once source close to the Brigantine businessman putting the deal together called "a top-end gentlemen's club."
Renovation work is already under way inside the casino where the Stage Deli used to be, right above the Hard Rock Cafe.
The club will be called Scores Atlantic City, and they're spending millions of dollars to get it ready in time for the winter, when the convention business usually peaks.
Fox 29 reported earlier this week on another first in Atlantic City, the Trump Marina Casino offering $1 blackjack.
Scores is the biggest name in the strip club business thanks in part to the biggest name in radio, Howard Stern, whose frequent mentions and visits to the Manhattan Scores made that club very famous and profitable.
The Trump Taj Mahal will just be leasing the space, not operaing the strip club. But it certainly does stand to benefit. The club is expected to open in January or February if it gets all of the necessary approvals.
The strip club's application includes details on the extent of nudity, the way dancers will interact with customers.

MyFoxPhilly.com

 

[Boomer]

This from the man who has often talked of how his older brother drank himself to death and the evils of booze- who holds dozens of liquor licenses and has a best selling line of Vodka... Such integrity- a true man of principle...

Donald Trump to launch own blend of whisky​

Tycoon in talks with distiller ​

By David Ewen chief reporter
07/09/2010​

DONALD Trump is set to make his Menie golf resort the toast of the world with his own blend of whisky his organisation revealed today.

The New York tycoon is in negotiations with a distiller to produce a special blend of whisky.
His son, Don Jr, said the whisky production would be part of showcasing the area’s culture and heritage and making the region the toast of tourists​

 

[farou7a]

Trump Scotch?

Well well.. He'll make millions there if its good.

 

[NakedIfIWantTo]

The Trump brand is just as variant and diverse as the Kardashians

 

[Boomer]

* And most of their rear ends look similar, too...*

 

[NakedIfIWantTo]

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[Boomer]

US Open yesterday....Please note, the Trump luxury box is gone- they are sitting out in the public seating...funny huh? They've had a private box at the Open every year for many years...

Yahoo.com

 

[NakedIfIWantTo]

Donald Trump offers to purchase site of Ground Zero mosque
Donald Trump, the real estate mogul, has offered to purchase the site of the proposed Islamic community centre and mosque near Ground Zero with a 25 per cent markup.

The intervention of the colourful entrepreneur was the latest strange twist to the controversy on a day of conflicting reports about the controversial project’s fate.
Mr Trump made the offer with the condition that any community centre must be built at least five blocks away from the site of the World Trade Centre, where nearly 3,000 people died in the al Qaeda suicide attacks of Sept 11, 2001.

He offered Hisham Elzanaty, an Egyptian-born New York businessman, a 25 per cent premium over the $4.8 million price that his investment consortium paid for the site, which is just two blocks from ground zero.

“I am making this offer as a resident of New York and citizen of the United States, not because I think the location is a spectacular one (because it is not), but because it will end a very serious, inflammatory, and highly divisive situation,” Mr Trump wrote in his letter to Mr Elzanaty.

Mr Elzanaty had earlier told the Associated Press that his partnership has already received offers of three times that much for the site. “Develop it, raze it, sell it,” he said. “If someone wants to give me 18 or 20 million dollars today, it’s all theirs.”

There was no immediate response from Mr Elzanaty. But the imam and property developer both insisted that the plan for the mosque and community centre would go ahead as planned. And a lawyer for another investor, Wolodymyr Starosolosy, dismissed Mr Trump’s bid as "a cheap attempt to get publicity and get in the limelight".

The offer came after Terry Jones, the pastor of the church in Florida that planned to burn copies of the Koran on September 11, claimed he had cancelled his event after receiving assurance that the Islamic centre in New York would be relocated. The imam behind the mosque subsequently denied any such deal.

telegraph.co.uk

 

[farou7a]

^ no comment

 

[Boomer]

^ Yes- this is one of those things you just can't win commenting about...the emotions are running extremely high here right now, especially with the anniversary tomorrow.... At least Donald tried to offer some answers, good or bad, instead of just taking sides...

 

[farou7a]

I chose not to being muslim but whatever his intentions were I dont think he was trying to get into the spotlight.
I dont get why there is a negative hype about current plans for ground zero.

 

[Boomer]

^ Well, it's really complicated and there are many more questions about what the whole story is than there are answers right now...
The funny thing is they said Donald did it for publicity- he is probably one of the highest profile people in the country, and will be even more so next week when the new Apprentice starts, and he has significant business interests in the Middle East now- this could very well not be in his own interest to speak up, and he knows that, so I don't believe it is for publicity at all...

 

[farou7a]

^ I agree. If anything, its just another business deal and of course an end to a nuisance of a controversy.

 

[Harumi]

I dont get why there is a negative hype about current plans for ground zero.

The reason is the raging islamophobia gripping the whole Western world. The 'them' and 'us' mentality that is the staple of any hate speech.
The Christians who bomb abortion clinics, kill homosexuals, burn mosque and synagogues, r*pe children, commit genocides and spread hatred are held accountable for their actions as individuals, but the Muslims who commit equivalent crimes (or in this instance, murder thousands of Americans in one terrorist attack) somehow represent all Muslims.
There are plenty of Christian churches built close to places where horrible crimes where committed in the name of the Christian God.

I am at least glad that Obama, who has been a complete disappointment, is standing by the constitutional right of American citizen to build a place of worship in a place they bought in full legality, even though it's costing him a lot politically. Kudos to the NYC mayor too.
Some of those bigots need to re-read their own Constitution and remember that their founding fathers came to America to flee religious persecussion.

As for Trump, can you spell attention wh*re?

 

[farou7a]

Yes considering ur second para (which is what I had thought too) and that is why I had asked that question.

How can u label one as all because of a crime like that which was said to have been carried out by osama and his people?

I also agree on ur point on Obama being a disappointment. That was predictable before he won.

 

[Boomer]

Donald shows how he maintains his athlete's body at the US Open..in a Brioni suit and french cuffs...

Zimbio.com

 

[NakedIfIWantTo]

^He looks horny.

 

[Boomer]

This is actually a:
1) Picture of the Trumps at the US Open
2) Another case of Melania ignoring Donald
3) Donald out (again) with Carla Bruni (Yes- they have a history...)
4) An advertisement for the dangers of too much Botox, or
5) A wax dummy from Madam Tussauds...

zimbio.com

 

[Boomer]

I wonder if she had to lift weights before the wedding to make sure she could handle carrying this rock around all day...

zimbio.com