Donald Trump was 18 years old and a guest at the opening ceremony of the Verrazano-Narrows Bridge 50 years ago this year, he told the New York Times. He stood with his beloved father and Statenistan real estate figure, Fred Trump, who owned property on Grymes Hill and New Dorp. Young Donald apprenticed to his Dad and told me some of his jobs were painting apartments, cleaning Venetian blinds, and emptying the coin boxes in basement laundry machines in those years...The future tycoon watched that day as politician after politician stood and took credit for the amazing new suspension bridge linking Statenistan to Brooklyn -- the brilliant Swiss engineer behind the bridge, Othmar Ammann, (pictured here), was barely acknowledged. Donald J. Trump turned to his father and said if he ever built anything himself, his name was going to be all over it. And that explains that.
Posted on: Wed, 02 Jul 2014 16:48:53 +0000
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