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[quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous]So I suppose this answers my question if Trump bothered to save the antique American furnishings and art from the West Wing.

“In 1979, Trump received approval from the city to purchase the Bonwit Teller building, an Art Deco mainstay on Fifth Avenue in Manhattan, which would eventually be demolished for a 68-story, mixed-use property now known as Trump Tower, Forbes reported.
Trump recalled that the Metropolitan Museum of Art asked him to donate several friezes from the 1929 building before it was razed, in his 1987 book, “The Art of the Deal.”

The real estate developer agreed that he would save two, 15-foot Art Deco sculptures of nearly nude goddesses, as well as a 15- foot by 25-foot, nickel-plated grille, from the condemned building’s facade.

“I said that if the friezes could be saved, I’d be happy to donate them to the museum,” Trump wrote.

However, a year later, the “sculptures were smashed by jackhammers” and the grillwork went missing, Preservation News, a publication of the National Trust for Historic Preservation, reported in 1980.”

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Exactly what I expect from an incurious, uncouth, tacky  a-hole. [/quote]

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