A great warrior.
1986 On February 4th, Hill, a farmer who lived in Polk County in eastern Georgia for three generations, took a considerable life insurance policy and ended his life with a 0.22-inch rifle in his bedroom. The reason is simple. Due to the long-term agricultural failure, the Hill family is facing about $300,000 in bank debt. If he can't pay off his debts on time, he will lose the farm that his ancestors have run for three generations, and it is a shame for farmers who have run farms for generations to lose their land. In order to enable his family to continue living in this land, he chose to commit suicide.
However, in the life insurance clause, suicide cannot be compensated, and Hill obviously didn't understand the clause. His widow, Mrs Hill, a 66-year-old middle school teacher, almost collapsed under the pressure of the insurance company's refusal to pay compensation, her husband's death and the bank's door-to-door payment. This tragic experience became national news immediately after being reported by local TV stations and journalists.
Among the hundreds of millions of sighing viewers, one was Trump, who was already famous at that time, when he was forty years old.
Trump took the initiative to find Mrs. Hill and asked her directly on the phone what she could do for orphans and widows.
Mrs. Hill said that now that the bank is going to kill us, we will lose the farm that our ancestors have managed for three generations. I don't know what to do.
Trump put down the phone and immediately called the bank. The bank staff who answered the phone had no idea who was on the other end.
When Trump talked about that Mr. Hill's farm had to repay the loan for Mrs. Hill, the bank clerk said impatiently: "Mr. Hill owes money, and it is natural for us to collect money. It's none of your business. "
This completely angered Trump. He said, "Listen, son, if you continue to harass Mr. Hill's family, I will let my lawyer sue your bank for murdering Mr. Hill, and make you pay an astronomical price!"
The bank immediately woke up from a dream and promised not to harass Mrs. Hill and Hill's children again and pay back the money. As long as there is no such big noise, the money is really nothing.
These contents are all introduced in Trump's book The Art of Negotiation.
Thirty years later, when Trump was canvassing in South Carolina, a woman in her fifties came over with tears in her eyes, holding a photo of Trump and her late mother. She said: "Mr. Trump, I am the child of the Hill couple you saved. In South Carolina, we can do anything for you, because your promise to the American people was fulfilled to our family 30 years ago, and you saved us. "
At that time, there was a short silence at the venue, and many people were in tears.
In the Republican presidential primary held a week later, Trump led the second place by 20 percentage points and won all 50 electoral votes in South Carolina. South Carolina is an extremely conservative agricultural state in South China, and evangelical voters account for the vast majority.
Scold women for women.
In the presidential debate held on August 6, 20 15, Megan, the gold medal female anchor of Fox News Channel, directly asked Trump a sharp question. Mr. Trump, you once called women fat pigs and disgusting animals. Can you explain your position on women? "This question is full of malice, which makes unknown audiences, especially female voters, immediately have a negative impression on Trump.
Things should start with the Miss America beauty contest hosted by Trump.
In 2006, Connor, a candidate for Miss America from Kentucky, won the 2006 Miss America championship.
However, after the game, Connor began to lose self-discipline, and some even broke the news that the miss America actually took drugs and recently started taking ice. Later, Connor's blood test proved her accusation of taking methamphetamine.
As the president of the Miss America beauty contest, Trump is naturally under great pressure, and many people demand to deprive Connor of the title of Miss America. After careful consideration, Trump decided to keep Connor's title. In exchange, Connor has to go to a drug rehabilitation center to get clean.
In Trump's official statement, it was said that such a difficult decision was made because everyone was responsible for their actions and everyone should have a chance to turn over a new leaf.
Connor thanked Trump for his decision and immediately entered the drug rehabilitation center to start detoxification.
But O 'Donnell, the female news commentator of ABC, is in an unstable mood. In the program, she began to lambaste Trump's decision, not only to lambaste Trump's decision on Connor's rehabilitation, but also to defile the beauty contest of Miss America, and made a big fuss about Trump's divorce, saying that Trump, who is greedy, sloppy and low in moral level, will sympathize with this addict and so on.
Trump immediately refuted. You look like a fat pig and a complete loser. How dare you scold me? The war of abuse between them continued intermittently until 20 14, and finally ended with O 'Donnell's resignation from ABC for the second time. Trump's reputation as a woman was left behind.
Facts have proved that Trump's decision completely changed Connor's life trajectory. After successful detoxification, she was employed by a non-profit organization that advocated staying away from drugs. Now, she runs around the streets of the United States, sharing her experiences with many addicts and calling on everyone to stay away from drugs. Since then, this miss America has never touched drugs again. Many female voters who have learned this fact have become die-hard fans of Trump.
Lifesaving private jet
1988 In desperation, Harold Stern and his wife Judy dialed the telephone number of Trump Company and made a request that Trump use his private jet to take their three-year-old son from Los Angeles to new york for treatment.
Within a second, Trump readily promised the desperate couple to arrange planes and hospitals immediately. Thanks to Trump's kindness, the life of a three-year-old child was saved.
Their son suffers from a strange respiratory disease, and he has to rely on a huge oxygen tank to maintain his life. In the United States, only new york can cure this stubborn disease. As L.A. is more than 3,000 miles away from new york and must fly to new york in time, all airlines refused to provide services for this three-year-old child.
When the reporter interviewed Trump afterwards, he easily said that he just wanted to do the right thing. It was right to save a three-year-old child, so I did it.
Take care of the central park skating rink in three months.
From 1980, the New York City Government spent six and a half years to repair the ice rink, and spent13 million dollars to turn an ice rink that could have been used into a concrete swimming pool, with no cooling effect at all. This municipal project has become a disgrace to new york at that time.
After waiting for five years, Trump took the initiative to find the project leader and then new york Mayor Koch to ask about the progress of the project. The mayor is pessimistic, saying that it is facing great difficulties. An engineering consulting company based in Miami, Florida contracted the refrigeration project of new york Central Park skating rink, using expensive copper pipes and freon for refrigeration. The problem is that freon is a gas, and the skating rink needs a pipeline with a total length of 6 miles. As long as the pipeline leaks a little, the project will fail. In addition, because copper pipes can fetch a good price on the black market, the project contractor is forced to hire a large number of police and security guards to ensure that copper pipes are not stolen.
Trump certainly has no engineering background and will not do design. But he knows that it is a bad idea to find a company in Florida to design ice rink refrigeration, which is just like hiring an engineering company headquartered in Sanya, Hainan to do the overall design of ice sculpture in Northeast Ice Sculpture Art Festival.
He promised the city government that if he undertook the project, he would finish it and wash away the shame for the New York city government. The city government just put down this hot potato, so it subcontracted the project to Trump's company.
The first thing Trump did when he got the contract was to call an acquaintance of the Montreal ice hockey team and hire the ice hockey team's ice rink maintenance engineer to come to new york to guide the work. It is wrong for technicians to suggest that copper pipes and freon should be used immediately after they arrive at the scene. Cheap rubber pipes and salt water should be used.
Three months after Trump took over and changed the construction plan, a fully functional ice rink comparable to the home of a professional ice hockey team was opened to the public. More importantly, Trump only spent $2.5 million, far below the budget of $5 million, and the construction period was only three months, the first of which was to dismantle the concrete pedestal built before.
This public project won Trump wide acclaim from the public, and since then, someone has pushed him to run for the presidency. Finally, 30 years later, Trump was close to the Republican presidential nomination.
Tips for buying wineries
Please tell me about Trump's 0/300 acre Trump Wine Estate in Virginia/Kloc.
The acquisition of Kruger family winery can be said to be a portrayal of Trump's cunning business behavior.
During the period of 1990-2000, the manor spent 100-200 million dollars on renovation and reconstruction, and its interior furnishings were gorgeous. However, because Kruger's business began to decline and was overwhelmed by bank debts, the bank finally made a decision to forcibly confiscate the winery building. Please note that the bank confiscated only the winery building, excluding about 200 acres of land around the winery. The bank sold the winery at a price of16 million dollars.
Trump's keen business sense immediately began to act.
The first step is to persuade the Kruger family to sell 200 acres of land around the winery to Trump for $500,000.
In the second step, after buying the land, Trump set up a very striking sign on the land, "Private property, no crossing". In this way, the winery was wrapped in land. If you want to enter the winery, you have to drive for a long time from a narrow path. Trump's "No Crossing" sign is on the roadside, and Trump prohibits the maintenance of this land. As a result, weeds are overgrown.
In the end, many buyers were discouraged when they saw such a scene. When the banks were tossed to the brink of collapse, they were forced to sit down with Trump to discuss the price. Finally, the original price of16 million winery was acquired at a very low price of $3.6 million.
Now this winery has handed over the production rights of high-end wines to Trump's son Eric Trump, which is specially produced for Trump Group. Trump naturally relishes this business, and every time he holds an election campaign, he will mention it more or less.
American politicians have always been taboo about showing off their wealth. They expect voters not to like Trump.
However, under the realistic conditions of American manufacturing transfer and industrial hollowing out, Trump's cunning business skills have a strong resonance among a wide range of low-income blue-collar and angry voters.
There is a strange phenomenon in the election campaign. The more Trump flaunts his wealth, the more voters like him.
I think the Trump phenomenon can be explained by The Journey to the West's wisdom.
If the American voters are Tang Priest, the traditional American politicians are Friar Sand. They are incompetent and must avoid showing off their wealth. If they have divorced, they should be more careful because everyone agrees that politicians should be moral models.
Trump is the Monkey King, defiant and capable. There have been three marriages and infidelity before and after, but voters have never regarded him as a politician.
Imagine, if Friar Sand and the Monkey King tell dirty jokes at the same time, who will be punished more severely by Master? It may be "Wukong, you are so naughty" to the Monkey King, but it will not be so tolerant to Friar Sand.