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Former Trump Org VP: He Didn’t Want Black People To Build His Skyscrapers

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4.68.4K Ratings

🗓️ 6 December 2020

⏱️ 15 minutes

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Summary

Donald Trump has a long list of titles he’s accused of being: a liar, scammer, and sore loser to name a few. But racist is a title he earned long before becoming a soon-to-be one-term MAGA president. Former Trump Organization employee Barbara Res says saw it at play multiple times years ago while working as a vice president for the construction arm of the company. Res has a book coming out detailing her work with Trump before he became president, but shares sobering anecdotes with co-host Molly Jong-Fast on this bonus episode of The New Abnormal. Once, Trump reportedly saw a Black construction contractor working on one of his buildings when he turned to Res and said, “I never want to see that again.” What exactly was that? According to Res, I don't ever want to see the young Black kids sitting in my lobby where million millionaires are coming into my apartment. “I don’t want people thinking Trump Towers are being built by black people.” The remarks didn’t end there, though. Res also claims that Trump didn’t want Black kids to sit in his lobbies either, where he said, “millionaires are coming into my apartment.” Res also talks about Trump’s affinity to the mafia, or at least his wannabe mafia boss ruling style, and just how angry he can get over something as trivial as marble color and armoire doors. I thought, “he might hit me.” Will he get angry enough to barricade down in the White House? Res has an opinion on that, too. Hosted on Acast. See acast.com/privacy for more information. Learn more about your ad choices. Visit podcastchoices.com/adchoices

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0:00.0

Hello and welcome to the new abnormal special bonus episode. We're so excited to have you.

0:05.6

Today we have a very special guest with Barbara Reese, who's a long time executive in Trump's

0:10.2

real estate company. And today she's going to talk about the Donald Trump that she knew.

0:14.4

Hi, Barbara, thank you so much for joining us.

0:17.8

My question. Talk to me about what your job was at the Trump organization.

0:23.6

Okay, well, yeah, I talked about my book 18 years. I was born 20 years, more than a year

0:30.6

back. I worked for H.O. East construction. The first two of those 18 years, both in the

0:36.5

Grand Hyde Hotel with Donald Wilson, the developer and the person in charge. So I got to know

0:42.5

him now and that's where he found me and invited me to be in charge of construction at Trump

0:48.4

power. So in 1980, I went through the Trump organization as a vice president and charge of construction

0:54.4

at Trump power. And I worked on that project for about four years and it was finishing

0:59.8

up. I decided I should leave because they didn't have anything big in the pipeline.

1:05.4

And I didn't want to hang around in just, you know, dual-street tenant spaces, that's

1:09.8

what I built that old thing. So I left them with the word thoughts round and I came back

1:14.8

two years later and I worked from 8687 to 91 as executive VP in charge of all development

1:24.5

and construction. And one of the things we were doing was working with some foreign and

1:30.2

other American partners on a project in California. So when I left the, physically, the organization,

1:37.4

I mean, my end time was a consultant and I still carried a Trump card and I was on that

1:42.4

project for about six, seven years. You talk a lot about E-Roteless Book because you really

1:50.5

believe that Trump shouldn't have another term and... Okay, well, in my book, Carob Lodge,

1:56.3

I talk about a lot of different things to have not come out in the public. I know, but

2:03.4

I know that only I know. And these things that I always behaved in meetings and conversations

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