"You gotta pay your bills," said the former president notorious for not paying his own bills.
  • Son_of_dad@lemmy.world
    84·
    1 year ago

    Reminder that Trump was happy about those attacks that day because they made his property value go up

    • Flying Squid@lemmy.world
      67·
      1 year ago

      He said that on the day.

      A few hours after the towers collapsed, he decided to call into a radio station and brag. No one asked him, he just did it. And he said:

      “Well, it was an amazing phone call,” Mr Trump told WWOR. “I mean, 40 Wall Street actually was the second-tallest building in downtown Manhattan. And it was actually – before the World Trade Center – was the tallest. And then when they built the World Trade Center, it became known as the second-tallest, and now it’s the tallest.”

      https://www.independent.co.uk/news/world/americas/9-11-trump-tallest-building-manhattan-b2164420.html

      And, like most things Trump says, it wasn’t even true. It was never the second-tallest building in downtown Manhattan.

      So, on 9/11, while first responders were digging through the rubble and pulling out corpses, Trump called up the biggest radio station in New York to lie about how tall his building was.

      • DaBPunkt@lemmy.world
        1·
        1 year ago

        It was never the second-tallest building in downtown Manhattan.

        Are you sure about that? It was once the tallest building in the world, then the second tallest (after the Chrysler Building), and (Wikipedia says so) after the 70 Pine Street was build the 2nd tallest in “Lower Manhattan”.

        • Flying Squid@lemmy.world
          7·
          1 year ago

          As the article I linked to said-

          As multiple fact checks later pointed out, this was not true. The Wall Street building had not been the tallest building in lower Manhattan in the 1970s, when the Twin Towers were constructed, nor was it the tallest in the area after 2001.