him. a toddler when his father made his name as a big manhattan developer. revitalizing an old abandoned hotel. in grade school when ground was broken for trump tower. i remember playing with trucks on the floor of his office. going trick-or-treating in his office. to see dad, don jr. and eventually his siblings would need to visit him in the office. i think throughout our lives. he has always been there. usually on his terms. wasn t a typical, let s go play catch in the backyard, father son relationship. an atypical relationship, that worked. until, the early 1990s. when donald and ivana trump divorced. the world read all about it. i was 12. it was a difficult time. certainly difficult reading about it in the papers every day on the way to school. don jr. read about it because trump sr. was talking about it. he said things that no man should ever say about his wife. in private, let alone in public.