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Ex-Trump workers describe egocentric micromanager: 'Donald loves Donald'
"From Mueller to Stormy to ‘emoluments,’ Trump’s business is under siege "
In light of developments in 'the best' Trump's world since about this time in 2016 it felt useful to bring this article back.
Interviews with former employees point to detail-obsessed boss with little regard for diversity or low-level staff: ‘His identity is wrapped around being a winner’
Oliver Laughland in New York
@oliverlaughland
Mon 14 Mar 2016 15.01 EDT
Last modified on Fri 9 Feb 2018 14.15 EST
This article is over 2 years old
Randal Pinkett with Donald Trump: ‘If you challenge him, you begin to take Donald
out of his comfort zone.’ Photograph: Bennett Raglin/WireImage
Randal Pinkett’s first day in the Trump Organization was one he would never forget. Summoned to the offices in Trump Tower, the billionaire’s garish midtown skyscraper, Pinkett entered the room as Trump thumbed through a stack of the day’s newspapers and magazines.
It was 2005, and having just won season four of The Apprentice, the only African American to do so in the show’s history, Pinkett expected Trump’s attention. But as the two spoke about his hard-won contract with the company, it was clear Trump really only cared about one thing: himself.
[...]
A consensus emerged of a businessman obsessed with minute detail, prone to micromanagement, who takes little interest in the diversity of his executives or the welfare of lower-level employees. Some said Trump lacks the temperament to deal with setbacks and becomes instantly impatient with those who do not support or agree with him, while remaining resolutely loyal to those who do. Others described their former boss as a workaholic with few true friends, a man sometimes awkward in company outside the workplace.
Provided with a list of detailed claims made by interviewees in this article, Trump told the Guardian in a statement that they were “allegations by disgruntled and disloyal former employees” that were “totally false”.
[Since 2016 how many other things has the president described as "totally false" when they were not at the time, and still are not today?]
[...]
[More evidence of Trump's fealty to micromanaging those things which are mostly about himself and his income.]
Another of Trump’s inner circle from this period, former executive vice president for real estate Louise Sunshine, argued it was this obsession with detail in construction that has driven one of Trump’s most controversial policy positions in 2016: the pledge to build a large wall across the US border with Mexico.
“I think building a wall is something he can really relate to. He’s built so many that I think he can really visualize it. I don’t think he thinks of it as a barrier; I think he thinks of it as some sort of construction,” Sunshine, a registered Democrat, said. She added that “since day one”, Trump’s first lesson to her had been “bad publicity is better than no publicity at all”.
The micromanagement has seemingly continued throughout his life. Justin Goldberg, a former project director who managed the renovation of a property on Wall Street in 1995, recalled how Trump would personally call the painting company to negotiate a deal downwards after it had already been signed, and would point to the smallest details throughout the renovation.
Aaron Sigmond, the former editorial director of the widely lampooned and now defunct Trump Magazine, recalled how Trump would personally select the front cover of every edition of the quarterly publication. Sigmond unabashedly referred to the magazine as “wealth porn” and was keen to point out that the first decision he made when he got the job in 2005 was to run a photo of Trump or a member of his family on every front page.
Trump would also return a magazine mock-up with scribbled suggestions on most pages – no longer in robin’s egg blue, but black sharpie marker.
[And yet many say he wouldn't have known at all about the Russian connections and communication with his team before and after 2016?]
[...]
[Roger Stone is in Mueller's sights now. How reliable are Stone's views about Trump himself? Stone..]
...rejects the observation that Trump micromanages: “I think that he is someone who will gather the finest minds, he will extract as much information as he can, he will ask hard questions and he’ll make decisions. It’s kind of the Eisenhower model. He doesn’t need to know the name of every sub-sect of Islamic rebels in the African continent.
[No extra links here required to support the fact that Trump has seldom gathered the finest minds about him. And on racism?]
Pinkett spent a year inside the organization tasked with overseeing a $100m renovation to Trump-branded casinos and hotels in Atlantic City. The job itself ran relatively smoothly, but one thing about the company always struck him: “I don’t think I ever sat in a room with another person of color,” he said.
Sprague, too, struggled to remember the names of any senior minority managers in the company during her tenure.
“We certainly had a wonderful man who ... was Indian,” she said. “We had secretaries who were black, [too].”
[...]
[On Trump's having a number of women as top managers]
Res, who was Trump’s executive vice-president for construction until 1991, acknowledged that he treated men and women equally in the boardroom. But she added: “I’ve come to the conclusion that he probably liked having women around him because he felt better than them in some way or another. Maybe innately he felt better – they were maybe less of a competition.”
[...]
[Back to Stone and his claim that Trump is not an elitist. Just a wealthy ordinary guy.]
“He’s a billionaire without being elite,” said Stone, recalling the 1988 Republican convention in New Orleans, where he claimed that he and Trump had decided against a black tie dinner with George H W Bush and chosen instead to seek out the best burgers in town. “See if you can commandeer a limo, and let’s go there instead,” Trump told Stone.
Others dismissed this characterisation as spin. Louise Sunshine recalled Trump’s move away from his father’s empire in Brooklyn and into Manhattan in the mid-70s. The two would drive around the lower end of the city in a limousine, picking out properties they wanted to acquire. Even then, Trump would discuss his dream of purchasing the Mar-a-lago beach resort in Florida. He eventually bought it in 1985, and turned it into a private members’ club with a $100,000 joining fee.
[...]
[An ordinary guy who cares sincerely those near the bottom rung of the wage range.]
Alma Zamarin, the only current Trump employee to talk to the Guardian, had the most forthright view of this characterisation. The 55-year-old earns $9.75 an hour with no benefits or health insurance, as a part time server in the Trump Hotel in Las Vegas. She has worked there for five years, hoping for a staff contract that has yet to materialise, and struggles to pay bills and feed her retired husband and two children. Her union estimates that Trump pays his hotel workers in Las Vegas, on average, $3.33 less per hour than the average wages on the Las Vegas strip.
“He doesn’t care about me,” Zamarin said. “I think he just cares about his business, how much money he’s making.”
https://www.theguardian.com/us-news/2016/mar/14/donald-trump-former-employee-interviews-ego-diversity
That article was linked in 2016 here ..
Donald Trump’s ‘Apprentices’ Had to Agree to Go Nude
https://investorshub.advfn.com/boards/read_msg.aspx?message_id=124806109
To link - Micromanagers like to know detail. Trump learns details of things he is most interested in, and he is most interested in himself.
https://investorshub.advfn.com/boards/read_msg.aspx?message_id=139694698
"From Mueller to Stormy to ‘emoluments,’ Trump’s business is under siege "
In light of developments in 'the best' Trump's world since about this time in 2016 it felt useful to bring this article back.
Interviews with former employees point to detail-obsessed boss with little regard for diversity or low-level staff: ‘His identity is wrapped around being a winner’
Oliver Laughland in New York
@oliverlaughland
Mon 14 Mar 2016 15.01 EDT
Last modified on Fri 9 Feb 2018 14.15 EST
This article is over 2 years old
Randal Pinkett with Donald Trump: ‘If you challenge him, you begin to take Donald
out of his comfort zone.’ Photograph: Bennett Raglin/WireImage
Randal Pinkett’s first day in the Trump Organization was one he would never forget. Summoned to the offices in Trump Tower, the billionaire’s garish midtown skyscraper, Pinkett entered the room as Trump thumbed through a stack of the day’s newspapers and magazines.
It was 2005, and having just won season four of The Apprentice, the only African American to do so in the show’s history, Pinkett expected Trump’s attention. But as the two spoke about his hard-won contract with the company, it was clear Trump really only cared about one thing: himself.
[...]
A consensus emerged of a businessman obsessed with minute detail, prone to micromanagement, who takes little interest in the diversity of his executives or the welfare of lower-level employees. Some said Trump lacks the temperament to deal with setbacks and becomes instantly impatient with those who do not support or agree with him, while remaining resolutely loyal to those who do. Others described their former boss as a workaholic with few true friends, a man sometimes awkward in company outside the workplace.
Provided with a list of detailed claims made by interviewees in this article, Trump told the Guardian in a statement that they were “allegations by disgruntled and disloyal former employees” that were “totally false”.
[Since 2016 how many other things has the president described as "totally false" when they were not at the time, and still are not today?]
[...]
[More evidence of Trump's fealty to micromanaging those things which are mostly about himself and his income.]
Another of Trump’s inner circle from this period, former executive vice president for real estate Louise Sunshine, argued it was this obsession with detail in construction that has driven one of Trump’s most controversial policy positions in 2016: the pledge to build a large wall across the US border with Mexico.
“I think building a wall is something he can really relate to. He’s built so many that I think he can really visualize it. I don’t think he thinks of it as a barrier; I think he thinks of it as some sort of construction,” Sunshine, a registered Democrat, said. She added that “since day one”, Trump’s first lesson to her had been “bad publicity is better than no publicity at all”.
The micromanagement has seemingly continued throughout his life. Justin Goldberg, a former project director who managed the renovation of a property on Wall Street in 1995, recalled how Trump would personally call the painting company to negotiate a deal downwards after it had already been signed, and would point to the smallest details throughout the renovation.
Aaron Sigmond, the former editorial director of the widely lampooned and now defunct Trump Magazine, recalled how Trump would personally select the front cover of every edition of the quarterly publication. Sigmond unabashedly referred to the magazine as “wealth porn” and was keen to point out that the first decision he made when he got the job in 2005 was to run a photo of Trump or a member of his family on every front page.
Trump would also return a magazine mock-up with scribbled suggestions on most pages – no longer in robin’s egg blue, but black sharpie marker.
[And yet many say he wouldn't have known at all about the Russian connections and communication with his team before and after 2016?]
[...]
[Roger Stone is in Mueller's sights now. How reliable are Stone's views about Trump himself? Stone..]
...rejects the observation that Trump micromanages: “I think that he is someone who will gather the finest minds, he will extract as much information as he can, he will ask hard questions and he’ll make decisions. It’s kind of the Eisenhower model. He doesn’t need to know the name of every sub-sect of Islamic rebels in the African continent.
[No extra links here required to support the fact that Trump has seldom gathered the finest minds about him. And on racism?]
Pinkett spent a year inside the organization tasked with overseeing a $100m renovation to Trump-branded casinos and hotels in Atlantic City. The job itself ran relatively smoothly, but one thing about the company always struck him: “I don’t think I ever sat in a room with another person of color,” he said.
Sprague, too, struggled to remember the names of any senior minority managers in the company during her tenure.
“We certainly had a wonderful man who ... was Indian,” she said. “We had secretaries who were black, [too].”
[...]
[On Trump's having a number of women as top managers]
Res, who was Trump’s executive vice-president for construction until 1991, acknowledged that he treated men and women equally in the boardroom. But she added: “I’ve come to the conclusion that he probably liked having women around him because he felt better than them in some way or another. Maybe innately he felt better – they were maybe less of a competition.”
[...]
[Back to Stone and his claim that Trump is not an elitist. Just a wealthy ordinary guy.]
“He’s a billionaire without being elite,” said Stone, recalling the 1988 Republican convention in New Orleans, where he claimed that he and Trump had decided against a black tie dinner with George H W Bush and chosen instead to seek out the best burgers in town. “See if you can commandeer a limo, and let’s go there instead,” Trump told Stone.
Others dismissed this characterisation as spin. Louise Sunshine recalled Trump’s move away from his father’s empire in Brooklyn and into Manhattan in the mid-70s. The two would drive around the lower end of the city in a limousine, picking out properties they wanted to acquire. Even then, Trump would discuss his dream of purchasing the Mar-a-lago beach resort in Florida. He eventually bought it in 1985, and turned it into a private members’ club with a $100,000 joining fee.
[...]
[An ordinary guy who cares sincerely those near the bottom rung of the wage range.]
Alma Zamarin, the only current Trump employee to talk to the Guardian, had the most forthright view of this characterisation. The 55-year-old earns $9.75 an hour with no benefits or health insurance, as a part time server in the Trump Hotel in Las Vegas. She has worked there for five years, hoping for a staff contract that has yet to materialise, and struggles to pay bills and feed her retired husband and two children. Her union estimates that Trump pays his hotel workers in Las Vegas, on average, $3.33 less per hour than the average wages on the Las Vegas strip.
“He doesn’t care about me,” Zamarin said. “I think he just cares about his business, how much money he’s making.”
https://www.theguardian.com/us-news/2016/mar/14/donald-trump-former-employee-interviews-ego-diversity
That article was linked in 2016 here ..
Donald Trump’s ‘Apprentices’ Had to Agree to Go Nude
https://investorshub.advfn.com/boards/read_msg.aspx?message_id=124806109
To link - Micromanagers like to know detail. Trump learns details of things he is most interested in, and he is most interested in himself.
https://investorshub.advfn.com/boards/read_msg.aspx?message_id=139694698
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