I’ve often said that Donald Trump is a person of the high class — but he lacks class. We are increasingly getting a picture of someone who epitomizes vulgarity, hustle and who is truth challenged. And this report from the New York Post confirms it:
Donald Trump has been doling out diamond cuff links to unsuspecting pals as presents — but they’re actually fabulous fakes, sources say.
At least three recipients later learned that the glittery gifts were valuable only as mementos from Trump.
Anyone who has worked for a newspaper knows that the golden rule is one source isn’t enough. Three are confirmation.
Actor Charlie Sheen recently called out The Donald for the ruse, saying Trump once gave him his own cuff links as a wedding present and boasted that they came from one of the city’s leading jewelers.
“He says . . . ‘I want to give you an early wedding gift as a gesture from me and Melania’ — and she doesn’t say a word, she’s very sweet and very pretty but just kinda sits there,” Sheen told the BBC, referring to a time he ran into Trump and his wife in a restaurant about five years ago.
“He says, ‘These are platinum diamond Harry Winston,’ and he pulls off his cuff links, and he gives them to me.”
But still Donald Trump had to go to a lot effort to get those cuff links into his hands.
Think of all the boxes of Cracker Jack he had to eat.
Joe Gandelman is a former fulltime journalist who freelanced in India, Spain, Bangladesh and Cypress writing for publications such as the Christian Science Monitor and Newsweek. He also did radio reports from Madrid for NPR’s All Things Considered. He has worked on two U.S. newspapers and quit the news biz in 1990 to go into entertainment. He also has written for The Week and several online publications, did a column for Cagle Cartoons Syndicate and has appeared on CNN.