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 destroyed marble friezes.
Don t let these statements fool you.
When he had it demolished trump destroyed two art deco friezes that the metropolitan museum of art.
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.
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.
So under his direction the friezes were jackhammered the metalwork disappeared and the building was ravaged then sighed to the ground.
No this isn t an awful story line for a sitcom or one of his businesses it is actually something that happened sort of.
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.
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.
Presumptive republican presidential nominee donald trump has been sued at least 60 times by individuals and businesses who accuse him of failing to pay for work done at his various properties.
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.
But trump had other plans.
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.