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Related: Editorials & Other Articles, Issue Forums, Alliance Forums, Region ForumsDonald says he could've renovated the UN Building way better than it was done.
(Difficult to know what year he's talking about, here...)(12:14)
I remember it so well. I said at the time that I would do it for $500 million, rebuilding everything. It would be beautiful. I used to talk about, "I'm going to give you marble floors, they're going to give you terrazzo." The best of everything. "You're going to have mahogany walls, they're going to give you plastic." But they decided to go in another direction, which was much more expensive at the time, which actually produced a far inferior product. And I realized that they did not know what they were doing when it came to construction and that their building concepts were so wrong, and the product that they were proposing to build was so bad and so costly, it was going to cost them a fortune. And I said, "And wait until you see the overruns." Well, I turned out to be right. They had massive cost overruns and spent between two and $4 billion on the building and did not even get the marble floors that I promised them.
(13:15)
You walk on terrazzo. Do you notice that? As far as I'm concerned, frankly, looking at the building and getting stuck on the escalator, they still haven't finished the job. They still haven't finished. That was years ago. The project was so corrupt that Congress actually asked me to testify before them on the tremendous waste of money because it turned out that they had no idea what it was, but they knew it was anywhere between two and $4 billion as opposed to 500 million with a guarantee, but they had no idea. And I said, "It costs much more than $5 billion." Unfortunately, many things in the United Nations are happening just like that, but on an even much bigger scale, much, much bigger.
PS: The escalator did stop just as Melania and djt stepped on it. They had to climb it.
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Donald says he could've renovated the UN Building way better than it was done. (Original Post)
allegorical oracle
Sep 23
OP
Grins
(8,902 posts)1. "I realized that they did not know what they were doing"
I believe the proper phrasing is,
they did not know what the fuck they were doing!
Botany
(75,402 posts)2. Trump is Captain Queeg and his marble floors talk is just like Bogart talking about the missing strawberries
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He is NUCKING FUTZ.
He is NUCKING FUTZ.