It's amazing how little people actually know about the man. It's even more amazing that for some people it doesn't matter what they know about the man. Why is that? What could it be? A cult of personality?
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7. Loyalty has never been his strong suit. Here’s the story of how Trump dumped his partner in the Commodore Hotel, which he transformed into the Grand Hyatt.
Trump’s first major real-estate coup in New York was the acquisitionof the Commodore Hotel, which would become the Grand Hyatt. This deal,secured with a controversial tax abatement from the city, made Trump’sreputation. His partner at the time was the well-respected Pritzkerfamily of Chicago, who owned the Hyatt chain.
Their contract was specific: Trump and Jay Pritzker agreed that if there were any sticking points they would have a ten-day period to arbitrate their differences. At one point, they had a minor disagreement.
“Jay Pritzker was leaving for a trip to Nepal, where he was to be incommunicado,” a lawyer for the Pritzker family told me. “Donald waited until Jay was in the airplane before he called him. Naturally, Jay couldn’t call him back. He was on a mountain in Nepal.
Later,Donald kept saying, ‘I tried to call you. I gave you the ten days. But you were in Nepal.’ It was outrageous. Pritzker was his partner, not his enemy! This is how he acted on his first important deal.”
Trump later even reported the incident in his book.
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