“I’m surprised he has the nerve to be here amongst New Yorkers. He should go back to the Middle West.”
Others were tickled. “It’s humorous: The notion of him as an equal citizen is as comical as our campaign finance system,” expressed 67 year-old Arlene Geiger, an economics teacher at John Jay College.
Dr. Sam Rizk, who, ironically, lives in a Trump building, shook his hand and had this to say: “He’s not pretentious in any way,” Dr. Rizk said. “And he does bring up some points we as Americans should look into.”
At lunch time, having only a few bought newspapers and conversation centering around politics, sports and Tom Brady’s golf game, business and his preparing to boycott Oreo cookies should the rumors be true that Nabisco was outsourcing their Chicago plant out of the country, Trump was bombarded with people wanting to take pictures and sign autographs as a few hecklers criticized him for his proposal to deport illegal immigrants.
The court house officers told Trump that this was record-the biggest media spectacles they’d never seen.
Trump reveled in that stating: I love records!” he said.
At 3: 45, the courthouse clerk Irene Laracuenta told the jurors it was their lucky day as (usually) jurors must report for tow days even if there are no cases being assigned but because this was August, one call to jury duty would suffice. They all were dismissed and reporting back—in six years or so.
As Trump exited the building, it was back to business. His limo driver sat there prepared to ride the presidential hopeful back out and into his regularly scheduled presidential campaign shenanigans.
What did Donald Trump list as his occupation?
Real estate.
“I refuse to say politician,” he said.
