Trump says he'll renovate the U.N. quicker, cheaper By Charisse Jones, USA TODAY Fri Jul 29, 7:20 AM ET Donald Trump, the flamboyant real estate developer who has put his stamp on everything from a Central Park skating rink to some of the priciest high-rises in Manhattan, now is offering to leave his mark on no less than the United Nations. Trump, host of The Apprentice, a reality TV show, says he is willing to oversee the renovation of the U.N.'s worn headquarters, saving the international body billions of dollars and allowing it to focus its resources on fighting famine and AIDS instead.
And he'll do it for free.
"I'm offering to bring it in way under budget ... and much quicker," Trump said. "I don't want any fees. I'd like to do it for humanity..."
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Trump said that U.N. officials' lack of expertise could make the price tag balloon to $3 billion. He said it should cost no more than $700 million.
U.N. Secretary-General Kofi Annan acknowledged earlier this week that Trump told him several years ago that he could do the renovation more cheaply and quickly than anyone else.
If Trump can do it for half the price, "I'm sure he will get the contract," Annan said, according to the secretary-general's spokeswoman. "So I would encourage him to bid."
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"It's the way I look. He can't resist. I love when people say you're fat like you don't know," O'Donnell joked Monday on ABC's "The View." "... It's always the first comment of someone who disagrees with you if you happen to be on the plus side."
Trump has been hurling insults at O'Donnell since she criticized his news conference with Miss USA Tara Conner last month. Trump announced that Conner would be allowed to keep her title, which had been in jeopardy because of underage drinking.
"Boy, did I hit a nerve with that guy," O'Donnell said Monday, calling Trump a "comb-over bunny" for his relentless attacks on her, which include saying that Barbara Walters, creator of "The View," had told him she didn't want the 44-year-old comedian on the show.
Walters said Monday that Trump's remarks were "totally untrue" and expressed a wish that "we could rise above it."
"It's not we, it's him," said O'Donnell. "He's doing every show in America. He's on QVC talking ..."
"The guy, he's obsessed with me, obviously," she said.
Trump, in a statement to The Associated Press, CNN and other news organizations, said O'Donnell had gotten it wrong.
"I used the word 'slob,' I used the word 'degenerate' and I used the words 'not very smart.' The word 'fat' played a very small role, if any, in my description of her,' " he said.
On Monday's show, O'Donnell said she went shopping recently and "all of these plus-size women" with "tears in their eyes" approached her with words of support.
"He wounded millions of women by saying that I was fat, you know?"
Trump is the owner of the Miss Universe Organization, which includes Miss USA and Miss Teen USA.
The new season of his NBC reality show, "The Apprentice," premiered Sunday night.
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So stock brokers look down on filthy rich Donald Trump? ('cuz no one mentioned 'real estate people' as a class or grouped all of those togehter)
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I guess in terms of connecting with more viewers, I'm not surprised that Rosie would respond to the "fat" part of his comments, but you'd think the part where he calls a lesbian a "degenerate" would get more of the ire.
― nabisco (nabisco), Tuesday, 9 January 2007 22:30 (nineteen years ago)
Anyway, he did have a good argument with all this (that the girl deserves a second chance and Rosie was being a total bitch about it) until it was drowned out by the juvenile sniping.
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The unlikely alliance between Donald Trump and Sen. Jeff Sessions started because of the United Nations.
It was 2005, and Trump was busy criticizing the U.N.'s plan to launch a $1.2 billion renovation of its Manhattan headquarters. To the real estate mogul, who had constructed Trump World Tower across the street, the price for the remodel was unreasonably high. "The United Nations is a mess," Trump told the New York Sun, deriding just the kind of multilateral institution he now routinely pans in his presidential bid. "And they're spending hundreds of millions of dollars unnecessarily on this project."
After Sessions learned of Trump's views, the Alabama Republican and then-Sen. Tom Coburn (R-Okla.) invited him to come to Washington to talk about building renovation and air his criticism of the U.N. project at a Senate subcommittee hearing.
The result was the best congressional testimony Sessions says he had ever heard. Even now, as Trump's sole Senate endorser and the heart of his presence in Washington, Sessions loves telling the story. That's partly because he likes to do his Trump impression.
"Y'all are gettin' taken to the cleaners!" Sessions said while mimicking Trump in a recent interview, his accent drifting somewhere between Queens and the Alabama Gulf Coast. "There is no way it should cost that much! ... If you give it to me, I'll save you a billion dollars!"
https://www.washingtonpost.com/news/powerpost/wp/2016/04/19/how-the-united-nations-brought-donald-trump-and-jeff-sessions-together/?utm_term=.bfc85da1c5d0
― reggie (qualmsley), Monday, 3 September 2018 22:30 (seven years ago)
the best congressional testimony Sessions says he had ever heard.
shit. no wonder Trump lies like a rug all day every day. as long as he says what people want to hear, they lap it up like dogs pouncing on vomit.
― A is for (Aimless), Monday, 3 September 2018 22:40 (seven years ago)