Eric Trump made a wild declare about his father, Donald Trump, as he railed towards New York after final week’s landmark ruling within the fraud case towards his household.
“My father constructed the skyline of New York Metropolis, and that is the thanks he will get?” he mentioned on Fox News on Friday night, hours after a judge ordered the previous president to pay $355 million.
Eric Trump and his brother, Donald Trump Jr., have been every ordered to pay $4 million within the case, and all three are additionally going through different sanctions.
They’ve vowed to enchantment.
Donald Trump owns or manages a number of buildings on the New York Metropolis skyline. Some, resembling Trump Tower, have been constructed for him. Others have been constructed beforehand, by different homeowners, with Trump later buying some share of possession or curiosity. In nonetheless different circumstances, Trump’s firm didn’t construct and doesn’t personal the constructing, however manages the property.
Curbed has a look at his actual property portfolio in New York.
Even together with all of these properties, the buildings don’t add as much as a big portion of the skyline, nor do they embrace its most distinctive options, as the previous president’s critics have been fast to level out on X:
That is humorous for 2 causes. 1) Trump on no account “constructed the skyline of New York Metropolis” and a couple of) The suggestion that Trump performed any enterprise wherever at anytime for any causes aside from selfishness or financial self-interest. Like he deserves NYC’s gratitude? LOL https://t.co/vDDC3jg7cg
— Jonah Goldberg (@JonahDispatch) February 17, 2024
I grew up in New York Metropolis. I knew the skyline of New York Metropolis. Many individuals constructed the skyline of New York Metropolis. Donald Trump was not one in all them. https://t.co/KgxSZh2hdC
— Invoice Kristol (@BillKristol) February 17, 2024
Your father destroyed historic Artwork Deco friezes that he pledged to protect when he razed the Bonwit Teller constructing. Your cheesy asses ruined greater than you constructed. https://t.co/khduR0xjxJ
— Andrea R MD (@AndreaR9Md) February 17, 2024
Your dad did not construct the skyline. However he did brag about having the tallest constructing after 9/11…as a result of he is a soulless, pathological liar, grifty ghoul. https://t.co/m3ngNgdldO
— 🌻 Emily Brandwin 🌻 (@CIAspygirl) February 17, 2024
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