Donald Trump's pink-marble fantasy, home to the world's most glamorous boutiques, wrapped in gleaming, dark-bronze glass, opened on Fifth Avenue when empty store windows and "Going Out of Business" signs abounded. For a few golden years after its opening on Feb. 14, 1983, Trump Tower audaciously screamed that New York, beset by soaring crime and crumbling streets, might once again live up to its self-proclaimed "world's greatest city" image.
It arrived under a cascade of 10,000 balloons in a delirious blaze of 1980s optimism. Donald Trump's pink-marble fantasy, home to the world's most glamorous boutiques, wrapped in gleaming, dark-bronze glass, opened on Fifth Avenue when empty store windows and "Going Out of Business" signs abounded.
In his first press conference since being elected president, Donald Trump thanked the media. He praised news outfits that didn't publish a story about a document that describes alleged Russian efforts to compromise him, even though many of those news organizations had the story for months and held on to it.