Trump Warns Against Trophy Wives During West Point Graduation

Donald Trump warned graduates of the United States Military Academy at West Point to keep away from “trophy wives” on Saturday in a meandering speech.

At one level, Trump started speaking about other contacts from the actual property international. He discussed William Levitt, who was once credited with growing what we now call to mind as the fashionable suburb, and the “tremendous amount of money” he made. But, Trump bemoaned, when he bought his corporate and “he had nothing to do,” Levitt ended up getting a divorce and “found a new wife.”

“Could you say a trophy wife? I guess we can say a trophy wife. It didn’t work out too well. But it doesn’t—and that doesn’t work out too well, I must tell you. A lot of trophy wives, it doesn’t work out, but it made him happy for a little while at least,” Trump stated to the group of West Point graduates. “But he found a new wife. He sold his little boat and he got a big yacht.”

The president has been married 3 times—first to Ivana Trump in 1977, then to Marla Maples in 1993, and finally to Melania Trump in 2005.

During the graduation deal with to the gang of about 1,000 cadets, Trump took credit score for the rustic’s army may, one once more stated he was once investigated “more than the great late Alphonse Capone,” geared toward range projects and claimed that political leaders previously had been “abusing our soldiers with absurd ideological experiments here and at home,” criticized transgender athletes, and, after all, recalled the time he spoke with Levitt at a dinner party stuffed with “the biggest people in New York, the biggest people in the country.”

“I was doing well, I was, I don’t know, I was invited to the party, so I had to be doing well,” Trump recalled of the night time. “I was very, very young, but I made a name in real estate.”

Levittown, William’s introduction, for many years limited Black other people from transferring in. “The tenant agrees not to permit the premises to be used or occupied by any other persons than members of the Caucasian race,” a hire from 1948 learn. The Trump circle of relatives’s actual property industry additionally saved Black New Yorkers out of its constructions, in accordance to 2 separate 1970s court cases via the Justice Department. Trump and Levitt have extra in not unusual than their actual property jobs.