#123 TRUMP

The Bowery Boys: New York City History

Tom Meyers

Society & Culture, History, Documentary, Places & Travel

4.8 • 3.6K Ratings

🗓️ 29 April 2011

⏱️ 22 minutes

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Summary

Donald Trump - financial wizard, reality star, or political distraction? The secret in figuring him out may be contained in the roots of his wealth -- a saga that stretches back to the 1880s and begins with a 16-year-old boy named Drumpf who made his living in a barber shop. From there, the story unfolds during the early days of Queens, a borough once sparsely populated and ready for development. Donald's father Fred built thousands of middle-class homes throughout Queens and Brooklyn and embroiled himself in some controversy regarding the remains of TWO Coney Island theme parks. The Donald built upon the reputation of his father to become a successful Manhattan developer and a flamboyant celebrity with seemingly bottomless levels of lucre. But of course everyone has their limit. Featuring trivia about Trump Tower, Riverside South and other Trump-labeled properties, this is the brief history of the family behind the New York's glitziest name brand. CORRECTION TO THE PODCAST: I say the GM Building when I meant the Gulf Western Building Support the show: https://www.patreon.com/boweryboys

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0:00.0	The Bowry Boys episode 123 the history of Trump. Hey, it's the Bowry Boys. Hey
0:07.2	The Bowry Boys is brought to you by eurochipo.com
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0:20.8	Hello there. Welcome to the Bowry Boys
0:22.6	This is Greg Young without Tom Myers this week
0:25.6	I'm not doing these solar shows so much anymore, but I'm only doing them for special occasions especially on topics that are
0:31.4	Shall we say relevant to breaking news events now?
0:35.0	This podcast is being released in late April
0:37.7	2011 is have to date mark this and at this moment
0:40.7	Celebrity Millionaire developer Donald Trump is one of the leading candidates for the Republic
0:45.3	Anomination to run for president of the United States and he's been saying some rather outlandish things
0:50.4	I guess you'd say and as a result in typical Trump fashion is dominating the media coverage
0:55.3	Some of you most of you are probably
0:58.3	Totally sick of him and you're probably thinking I'm not sure if I even want to sit and listen to you talk about him
1:03.4	But I'm putting politics aside here or trying my best to and give you some trivia on Donald Trump and the Trump Empire for your coffee
1:10.8	Clatches and your cocktail parties this weekend because behind that goal-plated late 80s glamour
1:16.5	That is the Trump Empire is a meat and bone story of New York City history and a family saga the beginning
1:22.8	Manhattan's lower east side of 110 years ago this also happens to be a story about the development of Queens
1:28.9	Brooklyn and Manhattan in the 20th century had Donald and his home builder father Fred Trump
1:34.2	aided and occasionally hindered the growth of various neighborhoods throughout the city would haven't Queens
1:40.4	Coney Island the Upper West side if you're interested in any of these parts of New York you want to stick around
1:46.8	Essentially, I will try my best to answer the unanswerable question
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