I realized then and there, Mr. Trum concluded, “that if you let people treat you how they want, you’ll be made a fool. I realized then and there something I would never forget: I don’t want to be made anybody’s sucker.”
.. Architecturally, what M. Trump calls the hotel’s “sleek glass frame” has already been criticized. “It is the sort of flashy hotel one would expect in Atlanta or Houston, but certainly not in New York,” wrote Paul Goldberger in the New York Times. “It is essentially an out-of-towner’s vision of city life.”
“I’ve always been interested in art.”
A visitor observed that there was no art in Mr. Trumps’s office.
The developer considered this for a moment. Then, with a smile, he pointed to an idealized illustration of Trump Tower hanging on one of the walls.
“If that isn’t art,” Mr. Trump said, “then I don’t know what is.”