very just incredibly frugal. he d see a nail on the ground and pick it up because that was a cent, that was value, save that for later. fred instilled lessons that stuck with his son for the rest of his life. the first thing fred taught donald was life is a competition, and that it s almost a competition to the death. so there s only winning and losing. there s nothing else in life. fred was also controversial, sued along with donald by the justice department for race discrimination against potential black tenants. he settled without an admission of guilt. while fred was running his business, donald s mother, mary, stayed at home. she s that perfect combination of love but toughness. she would tell a joke and just have everybody in the room
and he would pick up the phone every single time. and he would put me on speakerphone. it didn t matter who was there. it was colleagues, it was titans of industry, it was heads of countries. morning. donald trump s work was his life, and the natural message to his children was to love what you do and work hard at it. echoing the advice he got from his father fred. it s probably the most consistent piece of advice he gave me my whole life. he said you ll never succeed, never be able to compete at the highest level if you don t deeply love what it is that you do. what trump loved to do was build. i d be trailing along as a little kid and i would be holding his hand as we were walking through construction
architect alan lapidus worked with fred trump and later with donald. the commodore which at one point had been the gem of new york, right next to and connected to grand central station. now it was boarded up. homeless people were sleeping over there. newspapers were blowing down the street. fred called me and said i have a son at this point who s interested in doing things in manhattan. i d like you to talk to him. george ross was fred trump s lawyer. donald walked in, he was 27 years old and then he gave me the idea he had about transforming the commodore hotel. my reaction was he was way off base. it was impossible to do. and that he was out of touch with the reality of the situation, what was going on in new york at the time. trump wasn t fazed. while the big developers were getting out of the city, donald trump wanted in. he went to get the financing, and the banks looked around and they said, wait a minute, we got
in 2005 trump married his third wife, a model almost 25 years his junior, melania. he adores her and they have an incredible relationship. he trusts her and she tells him what he thinks. she is first class. melania has chosen to largely stay off of the campaign trail. i m not on the campaign because we have baron at home and i m raising him. he needs a parent at home. i m teaching him morals and values and preparing him for his life to be an adult. and trump, is he doing anything differently this time around? with all of the children i ve always been i think a very good father. it was very important to me. a lot of people say my children have done a good job and they better keep doing a good job. but i think now maybe i
place making speeches. eric and ivanka. come on, they want you to walk over, honey. come on. along with ivanka s husband, jarod kushner have become trump s top campaign lieutenants, unusually prominent roles for family members. congratulations, dad. we love you? for much of this year they ve been their father s most effective surrogates. it is such an honor to be here for a man i love so so so so much. good evening. i m donald trump jr. donald trump is the person to make america great again. tiffany, trump s 22-year-old daughter a marla maples also took center stage. thank you all so much. and 10-year-old baron trump made a cameo. even if it was past his bedtime.