The Number Of Floors In Trump Tower

What? Is that it for the weekend?

I did not get all the napping I wanted to do this weekend.

Let's jump in to another week in Hell.

Today's post is about Donald Trump's habit of self delusion.

It is no major revelation that Li'l Donnie lies like the rest of us breathe.  But this goes deeper than the lies he tells to other people.

This is about the lies he tell himself.   

I recently read an opinion piece written by Harlan Ullman where in he relates a story about an encounter with Donald Trump in the 1990's at a dinner in Trump Tower.   

In attendance was a woman named Sara who headed up a number of high-powered New York social clubs.   

One of those was an organization called the Pilgrims Society. Donald expressed  his intentions to join the Pilgrims Society.  Sara pleasantly asked, “Donald, how many floors does Trump Tower have?”

 

Without hesitation, Donald answered, “68!” 

Sara disputed this and said, “No, Donald, there are only 58!”  

Trump offered some kind of double talk explanation of why he says the answer was 68 floors.  

 

Sara was not impressed and said, “When you get the floors right, I would be delighted to talk about the membership.”

 

Being a total dufus who cannot read a room, Li'l Donnie thought he still had a shot and called Sara a few months later to follow up on becoming a member of the Pilgrims Society.  

Sara asked , “Donald, how many floors does Trump Tower have?” 

And that was the end of that discussion.

This story is a fascinating insight into Donald Trump's psyche.

Trump had a desperate need to be accepted by the upper echelons of society, a rarefied realm of wealth and privilege that denied Trump admittance despite his money and notoriety.

But his need for societal advancement was not enough to break of his other insecurity, his anxious need to be more than whatever he actually was.

His self delusions were so great that he could not admit Trump Tower had 58 floors even to get into the Pilgrims Society.   

I am reminded of a story where Donald Trump made an appearance on The Nanny.  Fran introduces Donald to Maxwell Sheffield but adds, "What am I doing? You millionaires already know each other!"

Donald Trump had a problem with being relegated to "millionaire" and not "billionaire". 

At the time of this appearance on The Nanny, Forbes magazine had downgraded Li'l Donnie's personal wealth and it was less than a billion dollars. 

Fran Drescher re-did the line as "What am I doing? You gazillionaires already know each other!"  

Trump was happy with that line. 

Li'l Donnie's insecurities have followed him into the White House where he still oversells himself. 

Last week he made a big deal about announcing a new trade deal with the United Kingdom and yes, it was a new trade deal but it was not that big of a deal.  

What I understand is that this big beautiful trade deal is just Britain promising to try and buy more of our shit.  

And even that got upstaged by the new Pope from Chicago.

"Da Faddah, Da Son and DA BEARSH!!"  

It might be too early to know for sure but I think I'm gonna like this new Pope Leo XIV.   

Trump made a congrulatory statement for the new Pope from the USA. 

"AMERICAN POPE!! HELL YEAH!!!"  

Not so fast. Leo has some pre-Pope observations that are not so kind towards JD Vance, Trump and the whole MAGA movement.

Recent polling shows Pope Leo XIV is hardly an isolated voice in that regard.  

Polls that Trump immediately dismisses as fake.  Trump's self delusion that he is doing great and everyone loves, of course anything to the contrary of that must be false, right?  

“Donald, how many floors does Trump Tower have?”