Donald Trump  Holding All The Cards The Tower! The Team! The Money! The Future!
Donald J. Trump  is uneasy.  He  does not have a reservation for breakfast in the Plaza's tony Edwardian room. But  he 'll get  his  table  because  as  Donald Trump  will unabashedly tell you   he  is one of the people who "have it."
 He  is the brassy 38-year-old developer who  with  his  wife Ivana  has built the hottest properties in New York  offering the most expensive apartments to the world's "wealthiest."  He  is the master of grand plans  now hoping to build the "greatest hotel in the world" along with the world's "tallest" building in New York City  and perhaps one day fulfil  his  fantasy of becoming the U.S. negotiator on nuclear arms limitation talks with the Soviets.
And as owner of the United States Football League's New Jersey Generals   Trump  rattled the old-boy sports network last month by helping to engineer a $1.3 billion antitrust suit by the USFL against the National Football League  which alleges that the NFL has used monopolistic practices and conspired to control the "business of major league football."
To his detractors   Trump  is classic nouveau riche  a media cultivator with an oversized ego.
And so   Donald Trump  knows  he  can always get  his  table with the following simple statement:
"I'm  Donald Trump ."
"I know one man in particular " says  Trump   in swift Queens cadences  the kind that are usually lost after four years at Cornwall-on-the-Hudson and Wharton School of Business. " He 's one of the most successful men in New York  and  he  couldn't get a table at a restaurant.  He 's worth maybe four or five hundred million dollars  and  he 's standing at Le Cirque or one of them and  he  couldn't get a table.
"So I see  him  standing there and  he 's a little embarrassed and  he  says  'Don  could you help me get a table?' So I got  him  a table. So  he  calls the next day and I said  'No one knows you  you're very successful ' And  he  says  'No  no no  I like to keep a low profile.'
"That's great. But in the meantime  he  can't get a table in a restaurant.
" The man  calls me back a week later.  He  wants to know the name of my public relations firm " says  Trump   who has no public relations firm. "And I said to him  'Either you have it or you don't.' "
You could call  his  a story of riches to riches  the tale of the development of a personality that refuses to accept any of life's gifts to the privileged with equanimity.
"If it is not the impossible   Donald  is simply not interested " one of  his  vice presidents has said.
He recently brought a $500 million libel suit against the Chicago Tribune and the paper's architecture critic  Paul Gapp  charging that the critic "virtually torpedoed"  Trump 's latest real estate idea  a plan for the world's "tallest" building.
In the low-key world of New York real estate  where getting publicity can be almost as damaging as being stuck with an empty building   Trump  cultivates  it .  He  is often described as a "hustler " a fast-talking  fast-walking operator who always has an idea and a way to get  it  into the newspapers.
This morning   Trump  has a new idea.  He  wants to talk about the threat of nuclear war.  He  wants to talk about how the United States should negotiate with the Soviets.
 He  wants to be the negotiator.
Donald J. Trump  is uneasy.  He  does not have a reservation for breakfast in the Plaza's tony Edwardian room. But  he 'll get  his  table  because  as  Donald Trump  will unabashedly tell you   he  is one of the people who "have it."
 He  is the brassy 38-year-old developer who  with  his  wife Ivana  has built the hottest properties in New York  offering the most expensive apartments to the world's "wealthiest."  He  is the master of grand plans  now hoping to build the "greatest hotel in the world" along with the world's "tallest" building in New York City  and perhaps one day fulfil  his  fantasy of becoming the U.S. negotiator on nuclear arms limitation talks with the Soviets.
And as owner of the United States Football League's New Jersey Generals   Trump  rattled the old-boy sports network last month by helping to engineer a $1.3 billion antitrust suit by the USFL against the National Football League  which alleges that the NFL has used monopolistic practices and conspired to control the "business of major league football."
To his detractors   Trump  is classic nouveau riche  a media cultivator with an oversized ego.
And so    [TGT] knows   [TGT]   can always get   [TGT]   table with the following simple statement:
"I'm   [TGT]  ."
"I know one man in particular " says  Trump   in swift Queens cadences  the kind that are usually lost after four years at Cornwall-on-the-Hudson and Wharton School of Business. "  [TGT]  's one of the most successful men in New York  and   [TGT]   couldn't get a table at a restaurant.   [TGT]  's worth maybe four or five hundred million dollars  and   [TGT]  's standing at Le Cirque or one of them and   [TGT]   couldn't get a table.
"So I see   [TGT]   standing there and   [TGT]  's a little embarrassed and   [TGT]   says  'Don  could you help me get a table?' So I got   [TGT]   a table. So   [TGT]   calls the next day and I said  'No one knows you  you're very successful ' And   [TGT]   says  'No  no no  I like to keep a low profile.'
"That's great. But in the meantime   [TGT]   can't get a table in a restaurant.
"  [TGT] calls me back a week later.   [TGT]   wants to know the name of my public relations firm " says  Trump   who has no public relations firm. "And I said to him  'Either you have it or you don't.' "
You could call  his  a story of riches to riches  the tale of the development of a personality that refuses to accept any of life's gifts to the privileged with equanimity.
"If it is not the impossible   Donald  is simply not interested " one of  his  vice presidents has said.
He recently brought a $500 million libel suit against the Chicago Tribune and the paper's architecture critic  Paul Gapp  charging that the critic "virtually torpedoed"  Trump 's latest real estate idea  a plan for the world's "tallest" building.
In the low-key world of New York real estate  where getting publicity can be almost as damaging as being stuck with an empty building   Trump  cultivates  it .  He  is often described as a "hustler " a fast-talking  fast-walking operator who always has an idea and a way to get  it  into the newspapers.
This morning   Trump  has a new idea.  He  wants to talk about the threat of nuclear war.  He  wants to talk about how the United States should negotiate with the Soviets.
 He  wants to be the negotiator.