He set himself up to mine the miners. ibid. historian of Frederick Trump
He [Frederick Trump] must have led some wild life. ibid. Donald
Fred – he was the oldest son, and as the oldest son he had to step into this role and take care of things. ibid. Nina Burleigh, historian
Fred: The Henry Ford of homebuilding. ibid.
Donald Trump was taught that life is a competition. ibid. historian
I have a very unique ability to handle pressure. In my opinion that’s a genetic. ibid. Donald
He [Donald] was disliked by many of his teachers. ibid. historian
I was a very rebellious person. ibid. Donald
Against his will Donald Trump is sent to military school by his father. ibid. historian
Trump village really becomes the last significant project that he [Fred] built. ibid. urban historian
Coney Landmark Is Sold To Trump: Apartments May Rise in Steeplechase Park. ibid. newspaper article
He [Donald’s brother] became a very serious alcoholic and it was rough for him. ibid. Donald
I like to learn more from other people’s mistakes. ibid.
For Donald Trump, Manhattan is like Oz. ibid. Tim O’Brien
Before he [Donald Trump] can make his move in Manhattan a problem arrived on the doorstep of his father: the Justice Department filed a lawsuit against the Trump Organisation alleging that they had discriminated against Black and Latino families wanting to live in the buildings his father had built. ibid. Charles Bagli
Part operator, party savvy businessman. ibid. historian
On September 20 1981 Fred Trump junior dies of complications from alcoholism. He is 43 years old. ibid.
Fred Trump is amazed his little boy had graduated to a premier address in Manhattan. The Trump Dynasty II: High Roller, commentator
The world is made up of winners and losers. And losers deserve no respect. ibid. historian
He [Donald] thought she [Ivana] was very smart. ibid. woman
He was generating and grooming this image of himself as a successful millionaire. ibid.
He would call up and plant fake stories. ibid. female reporter
The Empire and Ego of Donald Trump. ibid. newspaper article
Whatever she [Ivana] did was never enough. ibid. Barbara Res, former Trump executive
By 1990 Donald is in trouble on every front. ibid. dude
Up to Assets in Debt. ibid. newspaper article
In what could be his final roll of the dice The Donald met late into the night with creditors who wanted to get their money back. The Trump Dynasty III, television news
Does anyone really want to smell like Donald Trump? ibid. dude re Trump goods
In 2005 Deutsche Bank loans Donald Trump $640 million to finance construction of the Chicago Hotel project. In 2008 Trump defaults on his loan payment. ibid. caption
In January 2019 US Congressional committees begin investigating the Trump organisation’s relationship with Deutsche Bank. ibid.
Trump and the Trump organisation do a lot of business with a lot of questionable figures around the world. ibid. dude
Central Park 5: ‘A lynch mob mentality. And guess who the leader of the lynch mob was.’ ibid. Reverend Dr Calvin Butts, Abyssinian Baptist church
It was the night of Barack Obama’s revenge. ibid. dude
Trump continues his partnership with the Mammadov family through the 2016 campaign. He does not abandon the Baku project until after the election. ibid. captions
I don’t like to analyse myself because I might not like what I see. ibid. Trump
How will history judge Donald Trump? Perhaps one leader from our own past could offer a clue: ‘He was a man who became egotistical and ruthless and frankly a tyrant.’ Henry VIII & Trump: History Repeating? Professor Suzannah Lipscombe, Channel 5 2020
It may sound far-fetched, but set the lives of Henry VIII and Donald Trump side by side, and the King’s story sheds surprising new light on the Donalds. ibid.
‘The thing that unites both Henry and Donald Trump is power, and what power does to a man.’ ibid. historian
Ever since he took office, those trying to make sense of Trump have seen echoes of a regal style of rule. ibid.
Both were second sons who lost elder brothers, both inherited and spent vast fortunes, both were Germaphobes, and both married mistresses and regretted it … When his brother Arthur died, it fell to Henry to follow in the footsteps of their domineering father. ibid.
‘It was the divorce of the century. A Manhattan fairytale had turned to dust.’ ibid.
Steve Bannon had masterminded Trump’s election campaign. But even he wasn’t indispensable. When he was cast out of the inner circle, he compared his fate to that of Thomas Cromwell in Henry’s court. ibid.
Fires are burning in cities across America, with storefronts smashed amid clashes between cops and protesters against police violence. It comes days after the coronavirus death toll in our country passed the grim milestone of 100,000, after a month in which 40 million people went on to the unemployment – exceeding the depths of the Great Depression.
With the country in crisis after a month from hell, President Trump’s public schedule for this last day of May is blank. But when he’s not MIA, the President’s comments have only deepened our division, with tweets like ‘when the looting starts, the shooting starts’, coming one day after he retweeted an account saying ‘the only good Democrat is a dead Democrat.’
President Trump has sowed the seeds of conflict and now we are all reaping the whirlwind of chaos. His inability to empathize with others, his instinct to play white identity politics, his essential disinterest in uniting the nation, have brought us to this breaking point. CNN online article 31 May 2020
CNN: As I wrote this, the US Capitol building was being stormed by right-wing protesters trying to stop the peaceful transfer of power.
This was an attempted coup, encouraged by the President of the United States, in an attempt to derail today’s congressional certification of the electoral vote that will lead to Joe Biden’s inauguration in two weeks.
Donald Trump’s legacy is American carnage. Our country is far more divided and violent and deluded than before he entered office. His misrule has led to this moment, but it is not his responsibility alone. Trump’s fear-fueled lies and extremism and conspiracy theories have been indulged for too long by partisans. His rhetoric has directly led to death threats against election officials who have done their job honestly and independently. Now we are all reaping what they’ve sown, as the President watches it all burn from within the White House. But then, there are some men who want to ruin if they cannot rule.
Make no mistake: this is sedition. And it’s coming at the hands of self-styled super-patriots who have been amped up by the President’s lies about non-existent mass voter fraud to excuse losing a free and fair election by a large margin.
They are not conservatives – they are radicals. Because patriots don’t break the windows of the US Capitol building and storm inside when they lose an election. No hostile foreign power has done more damage to what President-elect Joe Biden called ‘the citidal of our democracy’ since an invading British army burned down the Capitol in the war of 1812. But certainly, the enemies of democracy have taken great comfort from their actions today.
We are still in the fog of war. But some things are clear. The politicians and hyper-partisans who have coddled this President’s autocratic impulses have enabled this assault to our democracy. The Republican members of Congress – like Senators Ted Cruz and Josh Hawley – who have tried to benefit politically from contesting the election results without any concrete evidence of fraud are culpable in this violence because they have stoked its fears. So is Trump’s attorney, Rudy Giuliani, who demanded ‘trial by combat’ to resolve the election dispute at a ‘Save America’ rally this morning, after his legal team lost some 60 cases in court because of an absence of evidence. CNN online article 7 January 2021, ‘Donald Trump’s American carnage ends with a coup attempt’
This gross-looking Jabba the Hutt drunk. And you think, Oh my God. The Brink, Steve Bannon, 2019
As chairman of the far-right website Breitbart News, Bannon was a controversial late addition to the Trump campaign. Bannon’s main policy victory as White House Chief Strategist was the Muslim travel ban. ibid. captions