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...Trump has been telling anyone who would listen that his tower is much more than a building; it "has become the biggest attraction in New York City." He wants Gorbachev to see the "whole concept of Trump Tower," which features standard Trump touches like imported breccia perniche marble, a cascading waterfall, bronze plaques with the letter T emblazoned on every surface where the name Trump is not, and celebrity residents paying some of the highest prices in Manhattan. After walking through the atrium lobby, decorated with an oversize poster of Trump's book, Gorbachev is scheduled to get a tour...
...Trump took his version of perestroika to Moscow last year with the possibility in mind of putting his marble-and-onyx stamp on Red Square. Glasnost or no, he found the city fathers tougher than Mayor Ed Koch, who calls the real estate mogul "piggy, piggy, piggy" but lets him rule huge swaths of the city anyway. "The system there is so different," Trump said. "I didn't find the incentive to build as far as my time and money were concerned...
...Will Trump use his audience with Gorbachev to revive the deal? Trump, who does not discourage talk of his presidential ambitions and who buys newspaper ads laying out his plans for world nuclear disarmament, has more on his mind these days than slapping his name on another pile of bricks and mortar, even if the pile of bricks is in Mother Russia. He wants to talk one superpower to another. "I'm not looking to do anything but let him know that these two great countries can and should get along together...
...always Ronald Reagan's wish to take Gorbachev on a helicopter tour and show off the American dream by counting swimming pools in the backyards of factory workers. Gorbachev will have to settle for the Trump version of that dream. "I'm a representative of the American people," says Trump. "I want to let him know the American people are pretty good people...
Gorbachev has long since demonstrated a potent blend of statesmanship and showmanship. He is a natural at working the crowds and attracting attention, as his schedule this week demonstrates. In the capital of capitalism, the world's top Communist will tour Trump Tower, the Metropolitan Museum of Art and perhaps the New York Stock Exchange. As the Secret Service and New York City police department prepared for Gorbachev's arrival, they were terrified that he would leap from his limousine on Wall Street, on Broadway or along Fifth Avenue to press the flesh, just as he did outside a power...