Trump Destroyed Marble Friezes

This is the same person who in 1980 destroyed priceless art deco friezes to shave two weeks of construction time off trump tower.

Trump destroyed marble friezes.

He envisioned a tall expensive looking building that showed off real art not like the junk at the bonwit teller he told new york magazine. There s a lot of gold there is peachy marble the trump brand has also been more popular with foreign and out of state buyers looking for pied à terres than city residents. Built on the site of the bonwit teller department store which trump purchased in 1979. Trump posing as spokesman john baron one of the fake alter egoshe used to speak to the press throughout his career told the timesthat he had the friezes appraised and found they were without.

Trump announced in april that he was not going to attend the annual media mixer making him the first president to do so in nearly four decades according to abc news. He didn t give a reason but. Crews jackhammered the friezes dislodged them with crowbars and pushed the remains inside the building where they fell to the floor and shattered in a million pieces the trump organization disputed these claims through a spokesperson named john baron. Don t let these statements fool you.

When he had it demolished trump destroyed two art deco friezes that the metropolitan museum of art. No this isn t an awful story line for a sitcom or one of his businesses it is actually something that happened sort of. In april of that year trump took part in the principal for a day program an educational scheme that aimed to positively impact young students lives. To make room for his tower trump razed bonwit teller and in the process destroyed a pair of art deco friezes that curators at the metropolitan museum of art had wanted to preserve.

But trump had other plans.