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Let’s Take a Tour of Trump’s New York City.

Mike Weisser
4 min readNov 22, 2024

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Back when ‘The Sopranos’ was running on HBO, some guy in Jersey started doing a daily bus tour taking passengers around to all the locations that were used in the show — Bada Bing, Tony’s house, Satriale’s Butcher Shop — and delivered a brief spiel on how each location figured into various episodes over the years.

So, I’m thinking that I’ll lease a bus to take passengers around to locations in New York City which are connected in different ways to the life and career of Donald Trump. Because after Tony Soprano, there’s never been another made-for-TV gangster whose criminal career approaches the lack of lawfulness of the guy who will take the Oath of Office again in less than two months.

The tour will start, and the bus will be loaded in front of Trump Tower, the 58-storey tower that Trump put up on 5th Avenue between 56th and 57th Streets in 1983. Our tour guide will make a point of mentioning that when Trump used the value of his top-floor penthouse apartment to figure his net worth, he included the square footage of the roof of his penthouse apartment to double the size and the value of that space.

Then our tour bus will roll down 5th Avenue and pass one of the office buildings which served as the campus for Trump University. Here the bus passengers will be told about how Trump had to pay out $25 million to settle…

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Mike Weisser
Mike Weisser

Written by Mike Weisser

Former college professor, IT Vice-President, bone fide gun nut, https://www.teeteepress.net/

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