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None of the information on this page is expected to be of interest for anything beyond noting publicly reported facts about Donald Trump's attendance at public functions.

Sporting Events

Baseball Games

• March 26, 1988: Donald Trump was a guest in George Steinbrenner's box at a spring training exhibition game between the Yankees and the Expos held at the West Palm Beach Municipal Stadium. "“This year, Rhoden is healthy, and if the rotation holds up, he should have the Opening Day starting assignment April 5 at Yankee Stadium against the Minnesota Twins. […] Saturday at West Palm Beach Municipal Stadium, Rhoden was perfect through four innings and had a one-hitter after six. But then came the Expos' four-run seventh. […] George Steinbrenner's boxseat guest was developer Donald Trump.” (Miami Herald, March 27, 1988)
  • Steinbrenner and Trump were reportedly more engaged in conversation with one another than observation of the game. "Rhoden retired the first 12 batters he faced Saturday, but the Expos scored four times in the seventh inning to come back from a 2-0 deficit. […] The Yanks' only runs came on a two-run single by Ward in the sixth. Steinbrenner watched the game from seats next to the Yankee dugout, but he spent most of the day conversing with his guest, Donald Trump." (New York Times, March 27, 1988)

Private Clubs and Restaurants

• 1980: Donald Trump was a famous member of Le Club, an elitist New York institution that charged an annual membership fee of $1,000. “It doesn't matter what they say. Not every member of Le Club is rich, rich, rich. So says Larry Fisher, the senior partner of Fisher Brothers, the real estate moguls. […] The truth is that Le Club is one of the city's most successful and enduring private membership clubs, that anyone who can't pronounce it correctly (Club as it is usually pronounced) is certainly not a member, and that although there are a lot of nice people in it, there are not a heck of a lot of good, nice, solid citizens from Staten Island and Queens rubbing elbows with them. […] Some are only powerful or famous or royalty from here and there. Some are named Jacqueline Onassis (who held Caroline and John's birthday party there in 1978), George Steinbrenner, John De Lorean, Al Pacino, Fran Tarkenton, Vitas Gerulaitis, Roone Arledge, Donald Trump, Jerry Cummins, Dmitri Guerrini-Maraldi, Felix Mirando, Prince Anton Windisch-Graetz and Princess Ala Auersperg. […] The oasis is 2,500 square feet of subdued lighting, candles, a fireplace and a 17th-century Belgian tapestry and hunting trophies and musical instruments on walls of terra-cotta pink, and rubbing elbows with one's own kind now costs $965 more than the original $35 initiation fee.” (New York Times, November 26, 1980)
• 1989: Donald Trump attended the opening of a restaurant owned by Jackie Mason. "Jackie Mason's new restaurant, Jackie Mason's, opened in the heart of the theater district Monday night to rave reviews. The world was there -- Rudolph Giuliani, Gov. Thomas Kean of New Jersey, New York Attorney General Robert Abrams, Donald Trump, Malcolm Forbes and his motorcycle, lawyers Alan Grubman and Raoul Lionel Felder, all in their power suits." (Miami Herald, April 21, 1989)

Media Parties

• 2005: Donald Trump was listed as one of many celebrities that attended a party in Hollywood’s Club LAX that was hosted by the celebrity gossip magazine “Us Weekly.” “Christina Aguilera wouldn't pull over. Nevermind that a crowd of scene makers and boldfaced names including Donald Trump, Hilary Duff and Jeremy Piven had already crammed into Hollywood's club LAX as guests of Us Weekly's ‘Young Hollywood Hot 20’ party. And nevermind that Ken Baker, the magazine's West Coast executive editor, who was overseeing VIP arrivals on that evening, makes it his business to fill Us Weekly's pages with salacious details and candid pictures of many of these celebrities' guarded lives. Aguilera's main worry at that moment was of being upstaged. Her limo circled the block for nearly half an hour as her publicist furiously text-messaged Baker in an attempt to seize the limelight -- in other words, to time Aguilera's arrival after Paris Hilton's. ‘You don't go to journalism school to become a traffic cop for famous people,’ Baker said, just as Hilton roared into view in her Ferrari Spider, prompting a paparazzi stampede one evening last month. ‘The glitzy events and celeb wrangling is about 1% of my job.’” (Los Angeles Times, October 12, 2005)