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{{Quotation|Mr. Trump also said he would leave Friday for Moscow to pursue an invitation to build a hotel across from the Kremlin. […] Of the Moscow project, Mr. Trump said he did not know how large the hotel would be. He plans to be in Moscow for six days as a guest of the Government to examine the site and look into details. He said it would be his first trip to the Soviet Union. The New York developer said the Soviet Government wanted a hotel "with the feel of Trump Tower." (''New York Times'', July 3, 1987)}} | {{Quotation|Mr. Trump also said he would leave Friday for Moscow to pursue an invitation to build a hotel across from the Kremlin. […] Of the Moscow project, Mr. Trump said he did not know how large the hotel would be. He plans to be in Moscow for six days as a guest of the Government to examine the site and look into details. He said it would be his first trip to the Soviet Union. The New York developer said the Soviet Government wanted a hotel "with the feel of Trump Tower." (''New York Times'', July 3, 1987)}} | ||
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+ | {{Quotation|That quick meet yesterday at a State Department luncheon in Gorbachev's honor was just one of the almost surreal encounters in the Soviet leader's all-out attempt to reach beyond official Washington to the country at large. [...] The guests included industrialists H. Ross Perot and Donald Trump, ABC journalist Barbara Walters, artist Andrew Wyeth (who sat next to Raisa Gorbachev), Secretary of Defense Frank Carlucci, Sens. Pete V. Domenici (R-N.M.) and Albert Gore (D-Tenn.), Rep. Lee Hamilton (D-Ind.), Dobrynin and House Majority Leader Tom Foley (D-Wash.). (''Washington Post'', December 10, 1987) }} | ||
== 1999: Trump Denounced Boris Yeltsin == | == 1999: Trump Denounced Boris Yeltsin == |
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1985: Trump Volunteers to Negotiate Arms Treaty with USSR
Trump Wanted to Negotiate Nuclear Alliance with USSR
“ Trump has said he would like to be the U.S. negotiator in arms talks with the Soviets. "Some people have an ability to negotiate," he says. "It's an art you're basically born with. Either you have it or you don't.
"I feel for the first time in many years we're in a position to negotiate a really good treaty. I've been involved in studying the issue for years. I feel very knowledgable about the issues." And the issue, he says, is not so much the United States vs. the Soviet Union as it is both superpowers against a Third World country which gains nuclear capability. "I've never actually recommended myself as a negotiator," Trump says, "but I think what we need is someone who really knows the issues and knows how to negotiate." (Associated Press, February 24, 1985) ”Credited Roy Cohn for Idea
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