The Empty Office at 555 California St.
Trump, Inc.
WNYC Studios
4.6 • 5.7K Ratings
🗓️ 17 September 2020
⏱️ 27 minutes
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| 0:00.0 | Some of the people renting in these buildings don't know that their own landlord is the |
| 0:03.8 | president of the United States. |
| 0:08.5 | This is journalist Dan Alexander. |
| 0:10.5 | He just wrote a book. |
| 0:12.0 | That other book is White House Inc. which will be familiar to you. |
| 0:16.4 | It sounds a lot like the name. |
| 0:18.2 | Amazing title. |
| 0:19.2 | Amazing title. |
| 0:20.2 | How'd you come up with that? |
| 0:22.2 | If you hadn't taken Trump, you know, then I've made it use that. |
| 0:26.2 | And the subtitle is How Down Trump Turns Presidency Into A Business. |
| 0:31.7 | And Dan, you also, for years, have worked on the Forbes Billionaires list, right? |
| 0:36.3 | Yeah, I was working on the list for a long time and tracking all of these billionaires |
| 0:41.8 | fortunes. |
| 0:42.8 | And then when Trump became president, then I narrowed my focus from covering hundreds of |
| 0:48.1 | people to cover in just one billionaire. |
| 0:51.2 | And Dan's reporting has led him to a bunch of Trump properties. |
| 0:55.2 | The ones that I'm missing are like the Trump winery. |
| 0:58.1 | I haven't seen all of the golf courses, but I've definitely been to almost every commercial |
| 1:04.3 | building, if not everyone. |
| 1:11.0 | Tell me about 555, California Street, and why you were interested in that building. |
| 1:16.0 | I've been interested in that building for a long time because although it doesn't get |
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