CNN, check out this amazing stock market and vodka-related CNN transcript excerpt from Trump's Larry King interview in October...
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KING: We're back with Donald Trump. Let's get another question from -- we sent our crew out, as we said, out on the streets the other day. Here's another one for Donald.
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UNIDENTIFIED FEMALE: What would he invest in in the stock market now?
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TRUMP: Well, the stock market is a very tricky game and I have always said and will say it again, I love real estate. But when you have people like a Terry Lundgren at Federated who has done, as you know, a fantastic job with Macy's and Bloomingdales and everything else or Jeff Immelt at General Electric. I think their stock is probably low.
It's probably going to go up. I invest in people. I think Immelt is good. I think Terry Lundgren is great. You see some of the people at the Wall Street firms like Bear Stearns, I think that you invest, if you're going to invest in it, you have to look at the people running the company. But I like real estate better.
KING: But real estate can go down, can't it?
TRUMP: Everything can go down but with real estate you have something. It's tangible. It's not a stock certificate that's painted green and you say, oh, gee, what happened? I've just seen it too much in life. I've seen friends get wiped out. They put all their money into a stock and they get wiped out.
I like real estate.
KING: Trump Vodka?
TRUMP: Well, what's happened ...
KING: You don't drink.
TRUMP: I don't drink and I don't really -- I'm not a big proponent of people that do drink. I've seen people that drink -- I've seen people, highly respected people, people such as yourself, but I've seen highly respected people -- and I'm just saying, they were very successful like you are.
And then you see them being carried out of an office, they're totally bombed, and you totally lose respect for them. So I don't -- I'm not a proponent of drinking. But what happens is because of my success and because of the success I've had in real estate and everything else and probably also because of "The Apprentice," so many people have come to me with different things.
We have at Macy's the most successful suits, the most successful new shirt, Philip Van Heusen did shirts and ties. It's the most successful launch that they've ever had. The Donald J. Trump collection at Macy's.
And a great company came to me in that world and they wanted to do a vodka. I'm giving the money to charity. Vodka, if it wasn't legal, that's one thing. If nobody drank, that's another thing. If they don't do me they'll probably go to Martha Stewart and then they'll fail.
KING: How do you know how good it is?
TRUMP: I have been told that it's a fantastic vodka. They've sold more -- this company has sold more in terms of the cases of vodka, they've sold more than they ever had in the history of the company. It launches, by the way, in two weeks. I'll send you a bottle.
KING: What is it called?
TRUMP: It's called Trump vodka.
KING: I have friends who will drink it.
TRUMP: So do I.
