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...idea for the development, says Munk, came to him while on holiday. For the past 20 years his family has chartered a yacht on the Mediterranean. In that time, he couldn't help noticing how the old marinas at Monaco, St. Tropez, Antibes and elsewhere had no easy way to expand even as more and more huge yachts came off the production lines. As a result, berth rental prices shot up. At Antibes, for example, they've risen nearly 30% in five years...
...when the government of what was then Serbia and Montenegro approached him in 2004 with an idea to privatize an old Austro-Hungarian-era arsenal not far from Kotor, Munk met Djukanovic and says he "fell in love" with him. Djukanovic lent him a government helicopter to look at the site: "It was mind-blowing," Munk recalls. "I saw these frigates and warships and submarines and thought that here a superyacht would feel right at home...
There has also been some criticism that you've helped fuel that idea that the election is about you - for example, with the huge rallies...
...grew up a child of the world, and as you've said, you have "brothers, sisters, nieces, nephews, uncles and cousins, of every race and every hue, scattered across three continents." How does it affect your view of America's place in the world, the idea of American exceptionalism...
...anything, it has reinforced my belief in American exceptionalism. One of the things that happens when you live overseas is you realize how special America is - our values, our ideals, our Constitution, our rule of law, the idea of equality and opportunity. Those are things that we often take for granted, and it's only when you get out of the country that you see the majority of the world doesn't enjoy those same privileges...