martini. what this appears to be is a wine glass, maybe a red wine glass, filled with ice, some clear-ish murky liquid, and a sad little abused olive plopped into the bottom there. this meets zero of the physical properties of a martini. but it was in fact sold as one, for $15, to a reporter who ordered the martini from the trump grill in new york city, in the trump tower, in 2016. ordering a drink at trump s restaurant was one reporter s sideways attempt to try to get a closer look at the inner workings of trump s business empire after he was elected president. this was a scene setter over the next years for reporters trying to learn what it was trump was selling and what it was people were buying. the lesson being that once you