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Trump's Deal-Making Confidence, From 1989 to Now
Trump makes many people feel a lot of things these days, but for New Yorkers there will always be one extra ingredient: nostalgia.
Dean Mullaney, editor, publisher, designer, and author of Rotten to the Core Trading Cards: The Best and Worst of New York City's Politics (Eclipse Enterprises, 1989), looked at the rise of the brash real-estate tycoon, from his humble roots in Queens to his gleaming Trump Tower on the West Side.
Plus WNYC's economic development reporter Janet Babin spoke about the deal-making that made Donald Trump so famous, and WNYC's Kurt Andersen, writer and host of Studio 360, talked about his experience writing about Trump.
Have a look at a few of the trading cards from Mullaney's set, published in 1989. Here's the Trump card, front and back (read the text!):
You may also recognize this at-the-time mayoral candidate: