• AngryCommieKender@lemmy.world
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    2 days ago

    You missed another thing he loves doing. He smashed an historical building in the early '70s in NYC during the starting of his “real estate” career. He smashed an historical building while other people were offering to pay to have the historical artifacts properly recovered. His excuse at the time? “It would have been too expensive.” Meanwhile he knew it would have been free to him, it just would have taken 6-8 months later for him to break ground.

    He’s continued desecrating any historical site he can get his hands on, to this day.

    He gets off on destroying historical monuments.

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      14 hours ago

      Not even that long. According to “John Baron”, it was 2 weeks.

      Trump surprised New York’s art community on June 5, 1980 when a demolition crew jackhammered the sculptures off of the building. In addition, the intricate grillwork was removed. The destruction drew a public outcry. The Met received no advance notice.

      Trump initially avoided any comment about the Bonwit Teller artwork. But John Baron, a spokesperson with the Trump Organization, contacted the New York Daily News to discuss the situation. Baron informed the Daily News that “the merit of the stones was not great enough to justify the effort to save them.” Baron stated that the removal process could have set back Trump Tower’s construction timeline by two weeks. Baron also told the New York Times that he had no idea what happened to the ornate grillwork.

      https://www.forbes.com/sites/michaellisicky/2020/10/03/how-donald-trump-took-down-bonwit-teller-a-fifth-avenue-landmark/

    • otp@sh.itjust.works
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      1 day ago

      He smashed an historical building

      This immediately made me read your comment in a strong French accent

      (At least in my dialect, word-initial h’s are pronounced as a consonant. That means it would be “a historical” instead of “an”)