Trump Tower
About Trump Tower
Trump Tower is a 58-story, 664-foot-tall (202 m) mixed-use condominium skyscraper at 721–725 Fifth Avenue in the Midtown Manhattan neighborhood of New York City, between East 56th and 57th Streets. The building contains the headquarters for the Trump Organization, as well as the penthouse residence of its developer, the businessman and later U.S. president Donald Trump. Several members of the Trump family also live, or have lived, in the building. The tower stands on a plot where the flagship store of the department-store chain Bonwit Teller was formerly located.
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It was called Trump Tower. It was a book based on an idea for a TV show that he developed, which was meant to be Trump Tower done like the TV show Dallas or all those American soaps. It was the life of all the people that worked in Trump Tower. They got a pilot, but the pilot didn't get made. They ended up doing this book.
from 230: No Such Thing As Tinder For Sloths, 2018-08-17 at 00:14:39 · read transcript
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Then when the book came out, Trump hosted an absolutely massive party, didn't he? In Trump Tower, I think it was. There was a big red carpet, loads of celebrities came. There was a giant cake replica of Trump Tower. Then he went to his ghostwriter and he went, well, you owe me 50% for the price of this party. The ghostwriter went, I don't think so.
230: No Such Thing As Tinder For Sloths, 2018-08-17 · listen
So I was reading some snippets of it. It is. This is how erotic it is. Someone walks into a room, a guest in Trump Tower, and sees at least six women not wearing tops and says, I must be dead. I've gone to boob heaven. That was an actual line in an actual novel. Just very quickly, he's also really good for books, Donald Trump, because anytime he tweets about a book that he doesn't like, it does really well.
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Tony Schwartz was a guy who ghost wrote the art of the deal with Trump, and he gave a talk a while back, and he openly said Trump negotiated an extremely bad deal with me I got a great deal out of it he did an unheard of thing so there was an advance of half a million dollars for the art of the deal and Trump gave his ghostwriter 50% of the advance and then 50% of all the royalties so this guy has just been making millions and millions from this book this is unheard of in publishing I think someone who a negotiating professor called Deepak Malhotra said there is not a better deal out there in the world for ghost writing And then when the book came out, Trump hosted an absolutely massive party, didn't he? In Trump Tower, I think it was. There was a big red carpet, loads of celebrities came. There was a giant cake replica of Trump Tower. Then he went to his ghostwriter, and he went, well, you owe me 50% for the price of this party. The ghostwriter went, I don't think so.
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