The many lives of Trump Tower - BBC News

Contributing sentiments towards policy:

83% : Trump marvelled at the crowd: "Wow.
73% : A year before it opened, Trump appeared in Forbes Magazine's first-ever rich list by claiming a net worth of $100m. Trump Tower was at the heart of his case to get on that list.
73% : Trump would boast in Architectural Digest about having "the finest apartments in the top building in the best location in the hottest city in the world".
61% : Trump's exaggerations were used to promote his tower - and the building was vital to promoting Trump.
59% : Trump saved the best unit for himself - the 11,000 sq ft penthouse which takes up three floors.
55% : "He spoke in the third person; I think it's his first time he began to speak of himself from the third person - which he still does," Greenberg said. Trump also spread a rumour that Prince Charles and Princess Diana were buying an apartment, telling the New York Post the inquiry came from a "very aristocratic" guy with an English accent.
51% : Goldberger noted how the building's "zigs and zags" were a welcome break from the "simple boxes" that lined the streets, and how its pink Breccia Pernice marble gave off a glow of "happy, if self-satisfied, affluence". Looking back, Goldberger thinks he may have gone easy on Trump in part because he seemed like a breath of fresh air when the Big Apple was battling to revitalise itself.
48% : The building's appeal has waxed and waned, but the former US president's last name in bold letters on the gold facade is a constant reminder of the tower's central role in defining Trump as a brand.
47% : It's a similar story to how Trump won the presidency.
44% : He took the city to court - and won - to get millions of dollars in tax breaks.
43% : But Trump, the son of a wealthy Bronx real estate developer, was on the rise.
42% : After attending a dinner at the nearby penthouse of Saudi billionaire Adnan Khashoggi, Trump reportedly decided to redecorate.
40% : Trump has denied any wrongdoing, and is expected to be in court when the trial resumes on 11 January for closing arguments.
39% : Trump kept using it during his presidency, once hosting Japan's Prime Minister Shinzo Abe there for diplomatic talks.
38% : Diaz, the former The Apprentice contestant who was once inside Trump Tower's "inner sanctum", says imagining a world where Trump was not in control was "inconceivable".
37% : When Greenberg met Trump to determine if he should be included, the future president tried to fudge the numbers.
36% : But Trump and his tower would not be forgotten.
34% : He may not have secured a prince and princess for his castle, but it didn't stop Trump from creating an aura of exclusivity.
34% : "During The Apprentice, I don't think there was a piece of property that was more valuable to Donald Trump than Trump Tower," he said.
25% : But a long-time friend and fellow real estate developer who testified in the trial, Steve Witkoff, insists Trump doesn't let anything get him down and he'll keep fighting.
19% : In reality, Trump was worth only $5m. Former Forbes researcher and writer Jonathan Greenberg told BBC News he only discovered this deception of wealth much later.
15% : Other times, Greenberg said Trump called him, pretending to be "John Barron", a Trump Organization executive, to feed him false information.

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