TBTA Serialization - Chapter 5: A Two-Day Big Apple Popover Turns Into a Five-Year Tour

Team,

Meet the Boss as I meet the Boss — Donald Trump AKA DJT — for the first time.

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Peter

Five: A Two-Day Big Apple Popover Turns Into a Five-Year Tour

Gilligan: Hiya, Professor. What are you doing?

Professor Roy Hinkley: I'm making notes for a book. It's to be a chronicle of our adventures on the island... I think it's a book people will want to buy, don't you?

Gilligan: Sure, I'll buy one. I'm dying to find out what happens to us.

Gilligan’s Island, 1964

So just before noon on September 16^th, 2016, I get into the back of a black SUV and sit behind the Boss. It will be my first face to face meeting with him – but I don’t quite see his face yet.

He’s talking on his cell phone first to Rupert Murdoch. “How we doing Rupert? How are we doing? What are you hearing?”

And then as the SUV begins bobbing and weaving on our way out to La Guardia Airport to board Trump Force One, he’s talking rapid fire to Roger Ailes: “How are the polls looking Roger? I think they are looking good. I’m feeling good.”

Then Donald John Trump ends the call and looks back at me. I’m speechless as he tries to figure out who the hell I am. Then, he puts 2+2 and The Coming China Wars together; and he hits me with a big welcome aboard smile.

Yes, welcome to the Big Apple you Laguna Beach rube. And welcome to the Big Time. And the big time it was. But in a peculiarly small way.

It was 20 people on an airplane. One hundred more in the Trump Tower War Room, working seven days a week. A few money guys upstairs raising about half of what Hillary would spend.³⁷ And all the free press the mainstream media could give this never-before-seen roadshow. That was the ethos, strategy, and organizational culture of the come-from-behind, close the deal Trump 2016 campaign; and I was about to become an integral part of it.

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