NOTES PROLOGUE: “PRESIDENTIAL” 1 “can’t out-top Abraham Lincoln”: Trump interview with Robert Costa and Bob Woodward, Washington Post, April 1, 2016. 3 “I’m the Lone Ranger”: Ibid. 4 “your guard up”: Filmed interview with Errol Morris, 2002, https://www.youtube .com/watch?v=upC8pX3RY0A. 4 “making the country better”: Trump interview with Marc Fisher and Michael Kra- nish, April 21, 2016. 5 they should be allowed: “Donald Trump: ‘Be Careful!,’ ” Chicago Sun-Times, March 23, 2015. 5 noisy jets roaring: “Decade-Old Plan to Extend Palm Beach Airport Runway Revived,” Associated Press, March 23, 2015. 5 reversed course: Brian Swanson, Scottish Express, March 22, 2015, 31. 5 “celebrity video cameo”: “Radio City: Excitement Continues to Build around New York Spring Spectacular,” Globe Newswire, March 23, 2015. 5 “marketing genius”: Hardball, MSNBC, March 23, 2015. 5 “fictional presidential campaigns”: Jeffrey Toobin on The Situation Room, CNN, March 23, 2015. 5 “growing swarm”: Philip Rucker and Robert Costa, “With Cruz In, Race for GOP Right Heats Up,” Washington Post, March 23, 2015. 5 “entire year’s salary”: Up with Steve Kornacki, MSNBC, March 21, 2015. 5 oddsmakers were betting: “Odds of Ted Cruz Winning White House Sit at 33–1,” Chicago Sun-Times, March 23, 2015. 6 “tired of glib talk”: Joe McQuaid, “Publisher’s Notebook,” New Hampshire Union Leader, March 23, 2015, 1A. 6 “just a tease”: Trump, on The Kelly File, Fox News Channel, March 23, 2015. 10 “germs on your hands”: Trump interview with Fisher and Kranish. 12 “The part that”: Paul Manafort, quoted in “Trump Is Playing a Part and Can Transform for Victory,” Washington Post, April 21, 2016. 13 “he might be dating her”: Karen Attiah interview with Marc Fisher, March 29, 2016. Trump made the comment about dating Ivanka if she were not his daugh- ter on the ABC talk show The View on March 6, 2006. 7P_Kranish_TrumpRevealed_33573.indd 355 7/26/16 11:51 AM 356 Notes 13 boycott the event: Rosalind S. Helderman, “Rabbis Organize Boycott of Trump’s Speech to Pro-Israel Group,” Washington Post, March 17, 2016. 13 “like you folks”: Ibid. 13 “beautiful Jewish baby”: Jenna Johnson, “A New Donald Trump Emerges at AIPAC, Flanked by Teleprompters,” Washington Post, March 21, 2016. 14 an unscripted “Yeah”: David Weigel, “AIPAC’s Apology for Trump Speech Is Unprecedented,” Washington Post, March 22, 2016. 15 “That window is”: The Old Post Office was built in 1899. CHAPTER 1: GOLD RUSH: THE NEW LAND 17 gold-plated sinks: “Want Your Own Boeing 727? Donald Trump Is Selling His . ​ Cheap!,” Flying With Fish, November 10, 2009; Hibah Yousuf, “Donald Trump to Personal Jet: ‘You’re Fired!’ ” CNNMoney, November 10, 2009; and Auslan Cramb, “Donald Trump Flies to Western Isles to Visit Mother’s Home,” Tele- graph, June 8, 2008. Note: The 727 Trump used in 2008 is different from the 757 used on the campaign in 2016. 18 “I feel very comfortable”: Severin Carrell, “ ‘I Feel Scottish,’ Says Donald Trump on Flying Visit to Mother’s Cottage,” Guardian, June 9, 2008. 18 “I have a lot of money”: “ ‘I’ll Be Back,’ Says Trump,” Stornoway Gazette, June 12, 2008. 18 luxury hotel: Ibid. 18 golf resort: “Trump Golf Inquiry in Full Swing,” BBC News, June 10, 2008. 19 “creel of seaweed”: “MacLeod,” Tong & Aird Tong Historical Society. 19 Donald Smith: Kenneth Maclennan, Tong: The Story of a Lewis Village (Tong, UK: Tong Historical Society and the Stornoway Gazette, 1984). 19 143,000 pounds: Roger Hutchinson, The Soap Man: Lewis, Harris and Lord Lever- hulme (Edinburgh: Birlinn, 2003). 19 retail shops: “Mac Fisheries History,” Mac Fisheries Shops, http://www.macfish eries.co.uk/page2.htm. 20 174 men: Malcolm Macdonald, “Iolaire Disaster.” Stornoway Historical Society. 20 Leverhulme died: “Lord Leverhulme Dead. Founder of Port Sunlight. Great Cap- tain of Industry,” Argus, May 8, 1925. 20 HOLD FAST: Tony Reid, “The Family History of Mary Anne MacLeod, the Mother of Donald J. Trump,” Ancestry.com. 20 boarded the SS Transylvania: February 17 and May 2, 1930, manifests of the Transylvania, “New York, Passenger Lists, 1820–1957,” Ancestry.com. 20 552 feet: Premal, Admiralty Ships/Subs Lost 1939 to 1946, 515. 21 Klanbake: Jim Dwyer, “G.O.P. Path Recalls Democrats’ Convention Disaster in 1924,” New York Times, March 15, 2016. 21 preferred stock: S. A. Mathewson, “Now ‘National Origins’ Fix Quotas for Aliens,” New York Times, June 30, 1929. 21 lightning knocked out: “Sudden Storms Follow Summer Heat Here; Lightning Kills Man, Puts Out Liberty’s Torch,” New York Times, May 2, 1930. 7P_Kranish_TrumpRevealed_33573.indd 356 7/26/16 11:51 AM Notes 357 21 Hoover pinned: special to New York Times, “Worst of Depression Over, Hoover Says,” New York Times, May 2, 1930. 22 two or three bedrooms: Visit to the house by Frances Sellers, Washington Post, with Roland Paul, director of the Institut fuer pfaelzische Geschichte und Volks- kunde. 22 created a Weinstrasse: http://www.deutsche-weinstrasse.de/. 22 history of emigration: Interview in March 2016 with Roland Paul, director of the Institut fuer pfaelzische Geschichte und Volkskunde. 22 Trumpff: Freund Archive of online genealogical research, compiled by Christian Freund, great-grandson of Elizabetha Trump Freund, retrieved from the Web by Kallstadt mayor Thomas Jarowek on June 27, 2010; and Gwenda Blair, The Trumps (New York: Simon & Schuster, 2000), 26. 23 Tromp-h: Interview of Simone Wendel, director of Kings of Kallstadt, by Frances Sellers, Washington Post, March 2016. 23 Immigration records: Freund Archive, “Passenger List,” SS Eider, October 15, 1885. 23 illegal emigrant: Interview with Paul. 23 main entry point: Library of Congress, “Rise of Industrial America, 1876–1900.” 24 thin face: Friedrich Trump application for passport, May 26, 1904. 24 Poodle Dog: An account of Trump’s travels West can be found in Blair, Trumps, 41–93. 24 “the Arctic”: Yukon Sun, April 17, 1900, https://news.google.com/newspapers?nid =3fE2CSJIrl8C&dat=19000417&printsec=frontpage&hl=en. 25 On June 6: Freund Archive. 26 60 Wall Street: Blair, Trumps, 110. 26 “vicious spies”: “War Hysteria and the Persecution of German Americans,” AuthenticHistory.com; and “Wilson Declares Berlin Is Seeking Deceitful Peace,” New York Times, June 15, 1917. 27 and soon died: Blair, Trumps, 116. The account of Friedrich Trump’s death was given by Fred Trump in a 1991 interview to biographer Blair. 27 The population of Queens: US Census figures, http://www.census.gov/population /www/documentation/twps0076/NYtab.pdf. 28 the Klan remained prominent: “Four in Klan Riot Held for Hearing on Police Charge,” New York Daily Star, June 1, 1927; “Warren Criticizes ‘Class’ Parades,” New York Times, June 1, 1927; “Two Fascisti Die in Bronx, Klansman Riot in Queens, in Memorial Day Clashes,” New York Times, May 31, 1927; and “Warren Ordered Police to Block Parade by Klan,” Brooklyn Daily Eagle, May 31, 1927. Years later, Donald Trump would assert his father was never arrested. The news- paper accounts show that while his father was arrested, the charge was quickly dismissed and thus had no merit. 28 Jamaica Estates: “Jamaica Estates Is Active,” New York Times, March 22, 1931. 29 seventy-eight homes: Richard J. Roth, “Trump the Builder Plays Mothers as Ace Cards,” Brooklyn Daily Eagle, May 14, 1950. 29 he planned to marry: Blair, Trumps, 148. 30 “quicker and larger”: “Trump Expects War Scare Will Aid Homes Sales,” Brooklyn Daily Eagle, April 23, 1939. 7P_Kranish_TrumpRevealed_33573.indd 357 7/26/16 11:51 AM 358 Notes 30 “toy balloon fish”: “Show Boat Tells Bathers about Trump Flatbush Homes,” Brooklyn Daily Eagle, July 16, 1939. CHAPTER 2: STINK BOMBS, SWITCHBLADES, AND A THREE-PIECE SUIT 31 blur of humanity: Interview with Peter Brant, April 2016. 32 top five hundred corporations: Ric Burns documentary New York: The Center of the World. 32 “Trump’s dumps on stumps”: Interview with Frank Briggs, April 2016. 32 $60 a month: Blair, Trumps, 168. 33 ten-speed Italian racer: Interview with Steven Nachtigall, April 2016. 33 deal was off: Interviews with Chava Ben-Amos and her son, Omri Ben-Amos, April 2016. 33 “going to tell my dad”: “Donald Trump’s Old Queens Neighborhood Contrasts with the Diverse Area around It,” New York Times, September 22, 2015. 33 throwing rocks: Interview with Dennis Burnham, April 2016. 33 “just kept walking”: Interview with Briggs. 33 becoming a pilot: Donald Trump with Tony Schwartz, Trump: The Art of the Deal (New York: Ballantine Books, 1987), 70. 33 entitled “A l o n e” : 1954 Kew-Forest yearbook, 72. 34 quiet, sensitive: Blair, Trumps, 231. 34 “end of Robert’s blocks”: Trump and Schwartz, Art of the Deal (1987), 72. 34 “We threw spitballs”: Interview with Paul Onish, April 2016. 34 a clunk on Donald’s head: Interview with Sharon Mazzarella, April 2016. 34 “headstrong and determined”: Interview with Ann Trees, April 2016. 34 “terrifying at that age”: Interview with Nachtigall. 34 “wasn’t malicious”: Trump and Schwartz, Art of the Deal (1987), 72. 34 “very forceful way”: Ibid., 71–72. 35 recall neither the incident nor Trump’s ever mentioning it: Interviews with Peter Brant, Mark Golding, and Irik Sevin, April 2016. 35 “very rambunctious”: Trump interview with Fisher and Kranish. 35 “He was a pain”: “Public Lives: Musical M.C. for Silk Stocking District,” New York Times, February 23, 2000. 35 “a little shit”: Interview with Peter Walker, Charles Walker’s son, April 2016. 35 pulling his knees up: Interview with Brant. 35 “last man standing”: Interview with Chrisman Scherf, April 2016. 35 an almost Zen-like ditty: 1958 Kew-Forest yearbook, 93. 35 wave at President Eisenhower: Interview with Brant. 36 “hit the ball through people”: Interview with Nicholas Kass, April 2016.