Former Trump Org VP: He Didn’t Want Black People to Build His Skyscrapers
In this bonus episode of The New Abnormal, a former Trump Organization vice president shares accounts of Trump’s racism and anger.
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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 she 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 he never wanted to see?
According to Res, he said “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.
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