![]() Gary Legum, reporter, Wonkette: I was thinking this will be something goofy and funny to cover. … There was a guy riding the escalator with a squeegee, and he was, like, squeegeeing as he was riding the escalator to, like, clean the escalator’s glass. … They were still painting the press riser blue. Joe Perticone, reporter, Independent Journal Review: I was literally the first reporter in the door. So that meant I kind of got, like, the shittiest assignments for the day. William Turton, reporter, The Daily Dot: It was my first day ever in New York City working as a reporter, and I was kind of, like, the lowest person on the totem pole in the newsroom. Tierney McAfee, reporter, People: I had never written about politics before, and so my editor just said, “Trump is supposed to make an announcement at Trump Tower today. ‘I was thinking this will be something goofy and funny to cover.’ They thought they knew who he was, and what he was doing, and how this would go. What really went into that moment, and what was it like to experience? This oral history was assembled from reporters and photographers who were there from Trump’s aides and advisers and former Trump Organization executives from a lead architect and the construction manager of Trump Tower from the co-author of The Art of the Deal and former contestants on “The Apprentice” as well as supporters and others who had seen Trump prepare and rehearse for this for decades. ![]() “The famous escalator scene,” Trump himself would say.
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