Trumped! Story of the Real Donald Trump His Cunning Rise and Spectacular Fall

Trumped!: The Inside Story of the Real Donald Trump-His Cunning Rise and Spectacular Fall 06912145. AUTHOR: John R. O'Donnell, Former President, Trump Plaza Hotel & Casino with James Rutherford. JACKET DESIGN: Robert Anthony, Inc. SYNOPSIS: Most of what we know about Donald Trump's businesses and about his celebrated deal-making comes from Trump himself. Now, for the first time, a high-level Trump executive takes us behind the scenes to reveal how Donald Trump really operated and why his once-thriving empire has fallen on hard times. Jack O'Donnell worked for Donald Trump for three years, eventually becoming president of Trump Plaza Hotel & Casino in Atlantic City, New Jersey. It was in Atlantic City that Trump scored some of his biggest successes but also suffered his worst failure, the Taj Mahal debacle. Again and again, O'Donnell shows us how Trump's deal-making suffered because he valued publicity over sound finance. He explains how Trump's personal life affected his decisions and why Trump really exiled Ivana from Atlantic City to run the Plaza Hotel in New York City. O'Donnell gives us a blow-by-blow account of the astonishing events in the week before the opening of the Taj Mahal Casino, when O'Donnell was called in to try to salvage a desperate situation. He sadly recalls the events surrounding the helicopter crash in October 1989 that took the lives of three of Trump's top executives-all close friends of O'Donnell's--and weakened Trump's multimillion-dollar casino