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>> “I had never heard him say ‘pussy’ before. I heard him say ‘fuck’ a million times,” Barbara Res told me. “The way he said it—I just grab it—I was shocked at that, and then you know, when I took the time to put it into context, I said, yeah, that’s right.”
Beginning in 1978, Res worked for Donald Trump for 18 years, as the executive vice president and senior vice president at the Trump Organization. She oversaw the construction of Trump Tower on 57th and Fifth and the rehabilitation of the Plaza Hotel on Central Park South. There’s an iconic photo of her, raven hair spread out underneath a hard hat, cardigan draped over her dust-covered jeans, on site. At rallies, Trump likes to use her—though not by name—as proof that he respects women.
One problem with that, though: “I think he’s a supreme sexist,” Res said. She won’t go as far as to call him a misogynist, however, although she freely uses another M-word: megalomaniac.
... “I thought about the times that he bragged about how women were chasing him and all these movie stars wanted him, talking about how he’s such a magnet to women,” she said.
“He once said that, when his business was failing in the early ’90s, he blamed it on the fact that his executives did a bad job while he was off, in his words, ‘fucking women two and three at a time’—he said that!”
... Res said that during the construction of Trump Tower, they were close, and he could be nice. But he also had a mean streak, and Res called him “abusive.” “He yelled at me all the time. ‘This is no fucking good, these contractors are taking advantage of you, and you think you’re so fucking smart,’ but always to me, not in front of other people. But I gave him back pretty good, and he was pretty respectful of me overall. He didn’t take me apart in front of other people which he did with several of his own employees.”
In the early days, Res said, Trump was the kind of guy who respected people who talked back, like she did. But then something changed. “I learned very quickly when I went back that you don’t talk back to him anymore,” she said. “If I had to tell him something, an idea of his was stupid or I didn’t want to do it, I would try to figure out a way to make him think that he had changed his mind, or that my idea was his idea, and I used to tell him how great he was and how great Ivana was all the time.”
Res explained that as Trump’s fame grew, his ability to withstand criticism—or even honesty—shrank. “He got too famous. He started believing his own shit,” she said. “He got way too famous and, you know, people were telling him he was great and he was buying that. He started thinking that he walked on water, he really did.”
.... “Now,” she said, “I don’t think he respects anybody. I don’t think there’s a person alive that he respects, because he thinks he’s God.” << --- from the Department of State-the-Obvious, but still....
Beginning in 1978, Res worked for Donald Trump for 18 years, as the executive vice president and senior vice president at the Trump Organization. She oversaw the construction of Trump Tower on 57th and Fifth and the rehabilitation of the Plaza Hotel on Central Park South. There’s an iconic photo of her, raven hair spread out underneath a hard hat, cardigan draped over her dust-covered jeans, on site. At rallies, Trump likes to use her—though not by name—as proof that he respects women.
One problem with that, though: “I think he’s a supreme sexist,” Res said. She won’t go as far as to call him a misogynist, however, although she freely uses another M-word: megalomaniac.
... “I thought about the times that he bragged about how women were chasing him and all these movie stars wanted him, talking about how he’s such a magnet to women,” she said.
“He once said that, when his business was failing in the early ’90s, he blamed it on the fact that his executives did a bad job while he was off, in his words, ‘fucking women two and three at a time’—he said that!”
... Res said that during the construction of Trump Tower, they were close, and he could be nice. But he also had a mean streak, and Res called him “abusive.” “He yelled at me all the time. ‘This is no fucking good, these contractors are taking advantage of you, and you think you’re so fucking smart,’ but always to me, not in front of other people. But I gave him back pretty good, and he was pretty respectful of me overall. He didn’t take me apart in front of other people which he did with several of his own employees.”
In the early days, Res said, Trump was the kind of guy who respected people who talked back, like she did. But then something changed. “I learned very quickly when I went back that you don’t talk back to him anymore,” she said. “If I had to tell him something, an idea of his was stupid or I didn’t want to do it, I would try to figure out a way to make him think that he had changed his mind, or that my idea was his idea, and I used to tell him how great he was and how great Ivana was all the time.”
Res explained that as Trump’s fame grew, his ability to withstand criticism—or even honesty—shrank. “He got too famous. He started believing his own shit,” she said. “He got way too famous and, you know, people were telling him he was great and he was buying that. He started thinking that he walked on water, he really did.”
.... “Now,” she said, “I don’t think he respects anybody. I don’t think there’s a person alive that he respects, because he thinks he’s God.” << --- from the Department of State-the-Obvious, but still....
