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“"Give them the old Trump bullshit," he told the architect Der Scutt before a presentation of the Trump Tower design at a press conference in 1980. "Tell them it is going to be a million square feet, sixty-eight stories."”

— Donald Trump

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"Give them the old Trump bullshit," he told the architect Der Scutt before a presentation of the Trump Tower design at a press conference in 1980. "Tell them it is going to be a million square feet, sixty-eight stories." Citation: Marie Brenner "After the Gold Rush", Vanity Fair (September 1, 1990) Listed on https://en.wikiquote.org/wiki/Donald_Trump (CC BY-SA)
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