A recent New York Times story by Jonathan Mahler and Matt Flegenheimer on Donald Trump’s relationship with Roy Cohn, the former aide to Joe McCarthy and high-powered New York lawyer, includes this amusing anecdote:
Just last week, actor Charlie Sheen told a similar story about Trump.
“I want to give you an early wedding gift,” Trump told Sheen at a dinner party, according to Sheen. “He says, ‘These are platinum, diamond, Harry Winston,’ and he pulls off his cufflinks, and he gives them to me.”
Sheen said an appraiser later told him that “in their finest moment, this is cheap pewter and bad zirconia. And they’re stamped Trump.”
“What does this really say about the man, you know, that he said here’s this great wedding gift, and it’s just a bag of dog s—?” Sheen asked.
That’s a good question—one that a lot of Republicans are probably asking after waking up Tuesday morning to find out that the man who promised to spend $1 billion of his own money to beat Hillary Clinton only raised $3 million in May while spending $1 million reimbursing Trump properties with campaign cash (including $423,000 on renting out Trump’s private club Mar-a-Lago).
“If @realDonaldTrump were fractionally as rich as he says he is, he would write a $200mm check to propel his campaign. He doesn’t have the cash,” billionaire Mark Cuban wrote on Twitter.
Another lingering question: Did Trump really pull his cheapskate fake jewelry stunt only twice in his life? That’s hard to believe. If you, or a celebrity you know, has received a pair of fake diamond-encrusted cufflinks from Donald J. Trump, please let us know by emailing editor[at]weeklystandard.com.
