Thank you, Mr. President
Not everyone’s going to like this column. Not everyone’s going to like me. Right now I’m down to the dog and my hairdresser. And if I don’t feed my cranky Yorkie even he’s iffy.
So I apologize for those I irritate. But: My opinion is we need a collective prayer of thanks for Donald.
I know him longer than most people are alive. We met lifetimes ago. A nothing special New York political dinner millennia before Melania or Ivana. He straight out of Wharton. Me a nobody wife. Having told this before, I reprise it now for young ones who maybe don’t know it.
I knew him when, an NBC reporter, I interviewed him at his Atlantic City hotel. I knew him when, assistant to the Miss Universe president, I booked the celebrity judges. I knew him when I attended his Ivana wedding, Marla wedding, when he married Melania. I’ve flown with him on his plane to California. He’s been there when things were bad for me. He brought his team over to ensure my apartment’s safety. He took care of my husband’s ashes.
Things went bad for him and it was tuna fish sandwich lunch at my home. When Mayor Dinkins and I flew first class to Chicago, he sat cramped well behind us bunched into a second-rate seat alone — but never ever showed it! When things went good for him he hugged me when we were both at Melania’s private inaugural table.