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While the former president still claims to have won an election he lost, his real estate company is on his website on a large scale.
Vit’s on the Trump organization’s website, and you’ll find gleaming New York skyscrapers, rolling Virginia vines, and a glittering Vegas pool. In addition to all the glamor, there are hard facts – facts and figures about the president’s affairs. However, much of the data is not true.
View the statistics on Wall Street 40. The website calls the skyscraper a ’72-storey address’. It is actually a 63-storey building, according to a document filed with the Securities and Exchange Commission. According to the website, it has 1.3 million square meters of office space. According to the document, it really has 1.1 million.
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Same building, two descriptions. The president’s website (above) boasts that 40 Wall Street is larger than an SEC filing (below) says it is.
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The website says the president’s hotel in Las Vegas, a golden tower just in front of the strip, is 64 stories high. If the floors do not jump from the eighth level to the 16thde shallow. But since a drawing submitted to local officials shows that they do just that, the building actually has more than 57 floors.
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At Trump’s building in Las Vegas, it takes strange math to get to 64 floors. Above ground level there is an office, five storey car park, a swimming pool and then – suddenly – the ’16th level’, according to an architectural drawing (below).
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According to the website, Trump Tower stands “68 floors above Fifth Avenue.” But there are less than 65 floors in the building, according to an analysis of documents filed with the SEC and New York City. According to the website, the ‘first 26 floors consist of luxury offices’, although the SEC filing notes only 13 floors of office space.
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Many buildings skip the 13th floor. But, as evidenced by an SEC filing (below), Trump Tower skips the sixth to 13th floors and jumps straight from the fifth level to the 14th.
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The inflated figures do not only appear on the Trump Organization’s website. Choose an important news organization, and there’s a good chance it’s strengthening Trump’s claims. A short search has examples of the New York Times, the Washington Post, Fox News, the Wall Street Magazine, CBS News and, yes, Forbes. Newspapers train reporters to obtain information from direct sources, which can make it easy to overlook false allegations, especially trivial matters. After all, who would lie about the size of their buildings?
Donald Trump, of course. In fact, he has been using such tactics for years. Veteran Trump columnist Timothy O’Brien called him because he blew up the number of floors in Trump Tower years ago. That did not deter Trump. ‘True hyperbole’ is how the former president describes these kinds of things. “I play according to people’s fantasies,” he wrote in his bestseller in 1987, Trump: The art of the agreement. ‘People may not always think for themselves, but they can still get excited about those who do. Therefore, a small hyperbola never hurts. People want to believe that something is the biggest and the biggest and the most spectacular. ”
However, it goes beyond the typical hyperbole. Trump World Tower, for example, does not have 90 stories. Trump just decided to call the 70sde floor 90de, in a document submitted to local officials, argues that the ceilings were high enough to justify his wrong score.
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The website describes Trump World Tower as a “90-story” building while awarding his “70-story glass curtain wall facade” on another page. It’s easy to get confused, as Trump calls the 70th floor the 90th.
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His website says another building in Manhattan, Trump International Hotel & Tower, is 52 floors. But it’s ’52nd floor ”really seems to be the 45th. Even the Trump organization is struggling to keep up with all the conflicting information. One section of the website says that Trump National Doral has 700 rooms. In another it says 643.
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The condo statement for Trump International Hotel & Tower (below) describes how Trump refers to the 16th floor of the building as the 23rd, which inflates the total number of floors.
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Trump Organization’s representatives did not respond to requests for comment.
Certain statements are more defensible than others. Trump’s biography, for example, describes him as a ‘dealmaker without peer’, which anyone could argue about, although the latest Forbes 400 listed 13 New York real estate wages richer than Trump. According to the website, 40 Wall Street is ‘directly across’ the New York Stock Exchange, although it’s actually a bit in the block. The website boasts that Trump’s Westchester County Golf Club is ‘only 30 minutes from New York City’, which can be true if you start in the nearest neighborhood of New York, Bronx, and encounter very little traffic heading north. Or if you take a helicopter.
In addition to all the buildings, Trump’s website contains a page about his planes. It contains a photograph of a black helicopter, complete with a tail number: N76-DT. The page nowhere mentions that Trump recently sold the asset. Given Trump’s tendency to give false information – first as a businessman, then as president, now again as a businessman – it seems unlikely that all the misconceptions will be rectified soon.
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The holding company that kept the helicopter right on the Trump website recently completed a $ 900,000 sale, according to a document the Trump organization submitted to U.S. officials (below).
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