One industry executive estimates that step alone would bring a 30% bump in the stock.” “Given that the low stock price seems partly a function of Wall Street’s allergic response to Trump’s flamboyance-analysts call it ‘the Donald factor’-the obvious solution would be for Trump to remove himself from management. Yet even more striking than the eternal unsteadiness of his business dealings was Trump’s eternal fear of being seen as an unsteady businessman.
During one of Trump’s telephone conversations with Useem, the developer said he’d “sue the ass off of Fortune” if the magazine was to “disparage cash flow.”įour years later, writer Daniel Roth revisited this image obsession in his marvelous profile, “ The Trophy Life,” which graced the cover of Fortune’s Apedition.
