Physical brutality and verbal abuse were tolerated, even encouraged. Hazing was a part of freshman life, with upperclassmen pummeling new cadets with broom handles or forcing them to stand fully dress...
Sherman Cohen, a tough negotiator in the Manhattan properties market, expressed interest and Ifshin set up a meeting in Trump’s office. Before taking a seat at Trump’s conference table, Cohen lit up a...
In the years after Trump graduated, Wharton became synonymous with financial success. Many of its graduates grew rich, and Penn’s endowment soared. Alumni gave generously, their names emblazoned all o...
Trump explained how the government had just filed suit, saying we discriminated against blacks in some of our housing developments. Trump said he didn’t discriminate, and he didn’t want the government...
He had lost patience with his father’s strategy of catering to lower- and middle-income residents of Brooklyn and Queens, and what was required to manage them. When he found tenants throwing trash out...
People were always asking him who the real Donald Trump was—was the bombastic, boastful billionaire he played in the media merely a character designed to enhance his business? They didn’t get it, he i...
Separately, Trump said, I’m the least racist person that you’ve ever interviewed.)
After his transfer, Trump was put in charge of a special drill team for New York City’s Columbus Day parade. In white gloves and dressed in full uniform, Trump led the procession south along Fifth Ave...
Trump continued, I’d rather fight than fold, because as soon as you fold once, you get the reputation of being a folder.
Sometimes Trump eschewed the company letterhead and just annotated a copy of the offending piece of journalism and sent it to the author. When Times columnist Gail Collins called Trump a financially e...
Many rich men don’t allow their wives to come to their office. Many women don’t know what their husbands do.
Trump had asserted to the Times that he was worth more than $200 million, even though a year earlier, Penn Central negotiators had estimated the Trump family holdings at about $25 million, all of it u...
Freddy left the business and went to work as a pilot with Trans World Airlines. At age twenty-three, he married a stewardess, and the couple had two children, Fred and Mary. Freddy seemed far happier...
Trump had this urge to be a really big name, so he cultivated celebrity. But his lifestyle was surprisingly unglamorous. He’s quite disciplined in some ways. Doesn’t smoke, doesn’t drink, lives above...
Dobias taught his players the line famously attributed to legendary Green Bay Packers head coach Vince Lombardi: I taught them that winning wasn’t everything, it was the only thing, Dobias said. Donal...
Despite his doubts, Fred came through, pledging his own equity toward his son’s success—an early sign that although the father himself had no interest in taking on Manhattan, he would stand by his son...
Despite his affluence, Donald’s tastes were often plebeian. In the waning months of the Eisenhower administration, in a culture defined by conformity, Donald used the record player in his dorm room mo...
The work was done by hundreds of undocumented Polish immigrants known as the Polish brigade. The men toiled through spring and summer of 1980 with sledgehammers and blowtorches, but without hard hats,...
NORMA FOERDERER, TRUMP’S LONGTIME aide, rushed into the boss’s office on the twenty-sixth floor of Trump Tower. The helicopter that carried the three executives had gone down. Agonizing minutes went b...
The teacher, Charles Walker, who died in 2015, never told anyone in his family about a student’s striking him. Yet Walker’s contempt for Donald was clear. He was a pain, Walker once said. There are ce...
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