People have been telling her since Wellesley that she should be the first woman in the Oval Office. Hillary Clinton could also have run without indulging her worst instincts. He could have run as an outsider with a populist message without all the evil and mean components.” And the irony of all this is, he didn’t have to. He was so taken with the whiff of his own musk. It was more, ‘If this gets applause, I do it,’ in a Pavlovian dog kind of way. I don’t think he believes in the Muslim ban or half the things he’s saying. He started to get the biggest cheers for saying the most offensive things. “He saw the crowd’s adulation and it drove him.
“He’s so used to playing a role in different areas of his life,” said Donny Deutsch, the ad man and TV personality who appeared on “The Apprentice” a few times and was once friendly with Trump. He always was respectful and pleasant to everybody.” He was never arrogant or full of himself. He had a big personality, but he was the youngest of the group. “He was always very likable in those days.
“Donald was not a big night life person, except for Le Club,” said one former Steinbrenner staffer. They got together all over town, especially at Elaine’s and Le Club, a hub in Midtown for wealthy guys, models and actresses. They would sit in Steinbrenner’s suite at a big conference table watching Reggie Jackson slug home runs on TV. As Trump once said to his Yankee pals, “good publicity, bad publicity, as long as it’s publicity.”
And from Steinbrenner, he learned about indiscriminately grabbing the limelight. Donald modeled himself on these men, living large and talking big.įrom Cohn, he learned about winning, without regard to right and wrong. Sometimes Frank Sinatra and Cary Grant would stop by.
Trump started hanging out at Yankee Stadium with a group of towering characters - George Steinbrenner, Roy Cohn, Rupert Murdoch and Lee Iacocca.
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