Und das war für Trump das wichtigste an 09/11:
On September 11, 2001, just hours after terrorists brought down the World Trade Center, Donald Trump seemed to brag that one of his buildings was now the tallest in downtown Manhattan.
„I mean, 40 Wall Street actually was the second-tallest building in downtown Manhattan, and it was actually before the World Trade Center the tallest, and then when they built the World Trade Center it became known as the second-tallest, and now it’s the tallest,“ he said.
The interview came under scrutiny during Trump’s 2016 presidential campaign.
Trump’s claim that his building was then the tallest in downtown Manhattan wasn’t accurate — the nearby 70 Pine Street building is 25 feet taller than Trump’s 40 Wall Street, though Trump’s building has four more stories.
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On September 11, 2001, just hours after terrorists brought down the World Trade Center, Donald Trump seemed to brag that one of his buildings was now the tallest in downtown Manhattan.
Trump, then a real-estate developer who had only flirted with a political career, was speaking to a local TV station, WWOR, on the day of the attacks when he was asked about a skyscraper he owned near the fallen Twin Towers.
„Donald, you have one of the landmark buildings down in the Financial District, 40 Wall Street,“ said Alan Marcus, a WWOR analyst. „Did you have any damage, or did you — what’s happened down there?“
Trump’s response seemed to focus less on the deadly attack than on the fact that the World Trade Center was no longer the tallest building in the area.
„Well, it was an amazing phone call,“ Trump said. „I mean, 40 Wall Street actually was the second tallest building in downtown Manhattan, and it was actually before the World Trade Center the tallest, and then when they built the World Trade Center it became known as the second tallest, and now it’s the tallest.“
He continued: „And I just spoke to my people, and they said it’s the most unbelievable sight, it’s probably seven or eight blocks away from the World Trade Center, and yet Wall Street is littered with two feet of stone and brick and mortar and steel.“
The interview came under scrutiny during Trump’s 2016 presidential campaign. Critics argued that Trump’s references to his building’s relative height were out of place and insensitive so shortly after the attack. As Snopes put it, some viewed the comments as „the hallmark of an egoist with no compunctions about using tragedy as an opportunity for self-promotion.“
However, Snopes said that „in the context of the full interview, Trump’s remarks could perhaps be considered defensible,“ adding that the question he was answering pertained to his building in particular.
Meanwhile, Marcus, who is also Trump’s friend and former publicist, told Politico last year that the response was simply „Donald being Donald.“
„He is the brand manager of Trump, and he is going to tout that brand, and he does it reflexively,“ Marcus said. „Even on that day.“
To boot, Trump’s claim that his building was then the tallest in downtown Manhattan wasn’t accurate — the nearby 70 Pine Street building is 25 feet taller than Trump’s 40 Wall Street, though Trump’s building has four more stories.
Listen to Trump’s comments:
https://www.businessinsider.de/internat ... ?r=US&IR=TNur um das nochmal zu würdigen: Gerade wurden die USA von einem furchtbaren Terror-Akt getroffen, der Tausende von Menschen ihr Lebern gekostet hat, und was ist für ihn das Wichtigste? Dass durch den Einsturz der Twin Towers sein Trump Tower jetzt das höchste Gebäude in Downtown Manhattan ist. Der Mann ist besessen davon, den größten, längsten zu haben. Aber gut, er hat ja kleine Hände und kurze Finger. Was ihn auch sehr ärgert, wenn darauf hingewiesen wird.
Nearly 30 years ago, Graydon Carter, the editor of Vanity Fair magazine, described Trump in Spy magazine as a “short-fingered vulgarian.”
In an editor’s letter in "Vanity Fair" last November, Carter said that he wrote the Sky magazine comment in 1988 "just to drive him a little bit crazy."
And according to Carter, it still does.
"Like so many bullies, Trump has skin of gossamer," Carter wrote in November.
"To this day, I receive the occasional envelope from Trump. There is always a photo of him—generally a tear sheet from a magazine. On all of them he has circled his hand in gold Sharpie in a valiant effort to highlight the length of his fingers," Carter wrote. "I almost feel sorry for the poor fellow because, to me, the fingers still look abnormally stubby."
"The most recent offering arrived earlier this year, before his decision to go after the Republican presidential nomination," Carter continued. "Like the other packages, this one included a circled hand and the words, also written in gold Sharpie: 'See, not so short!' I sent the picture back by return mail with a note attached, saying, 'Actually, quite short.'"
And Carter's theory that Trump is ultra-sensitive to this particular insult appears to be right.
If you thought Rubio's joke on the campaign trail last week would go un-answered by Trump -- you were wrong.
Trump has brought up his hands up at least twice in the past 24 hours.
At a rally outside Detroit this morning, Trump said he would not sit back and be “presidential…when ‘little Marco’" talked about "the size of my hands."
Trump held his hands up and said, "Those hands can hit a golf ball 285 yards."
And at the Republican debate in Detroit last night, Trump said, "And I have to say this, I have to say this. [Rubio] hit my hands."
"Nobody has ever hit my hands. I have never heard of this," Trump continued, neglecting to reveal his repeated mailings to Carter.
"Look at those hands," Trump said on the debate stage, holding up his hands to the audience. "Are they small hands? And he referred to my hands -- if they are small, something else must be small."
"I guarantee you there is no problem," Trump affirmed. "I guarantee you."
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„Selbst das wildeste Tier kennt doch des Mitleids Regung“ – „Ich kenne keins und bin deshalb kein Tier“ (Richard III).