Trump the fighter is a rude loudmouth from the wrong borough of NYC who would NEVER be allowed in their country club.

That framing made me wonder if Caddyshack might have comms. Trump being played by Rodney “Jacob Cohen / Jack Roy” Dangerfield, with the movie made in 1980. What was Trump doing at the time?

Trump bought a Bowman-Biltmore Hotel as his first major purchase in 1978.

Trump and Hyatt completely remodeled the hotel from June 1978 to September 1980, spending $100 million and removing almost all of the Commodore's original decorations. The renovated hotel includes a glass facade, a three-story atrium, a restaurant cantilevered over a sidewalk, and the Commodore's original ballroom. With the deteriorating partnership between Trump and Hyatt, the Pritzker family

Because of superstition surrounding the number 13, the hotel did not have a thirteenth floor

Meanwhile, nearby:

The New York Biltmore Hotel was a luxury hotel at 335 Madison Avenue in Midtown Manhattan, New York City. The hotel was developed by the New York Central Railroad and the New York, New Haven and Hartford Railroad and operated from 1913 to 1981. It was one of several large hotels developed around Grand Central Terminal as part of Terminal City.

It’s crazy how much of NYC has been owned by the government. WTC (iirc) were, in large part, too (owned by the Port Authority).

Then here we are today with Asheville, NC, another Biltmore hub, being hit by a hurricane that materialized out of nowhere right before the election, and knocking out a major chip component manufacturing facility?

Probably a coincidence.

Just like the time Trump bought that other building at 40 Wall Street right next to the first Central Bank, that just happened to have been started on construction in May 1929, and completed on Nov 13, 1929, 15 days after the Oct 29, 1929 crash that kicked off the Great Depression.

40 WS was owned for a while by the president of the Philippines.

At the end of 1982, Loeb, Rhoades & Co. sold the leasehold to a holding company;[210] the Philippine dictator Ferdinand Marcos and his wife Imelda would be revealed as the real buyers in 1985.

By February 1986, 40 Wall Street's leasehold, and three other buildings reportedly owned by the Marcoses, were placed for sale.[217] Around that time, the Bernsteins were contemplating paying $250 million for 40 Wall Street and two of the other buildings.[218][219]

After Marcos was forced out of office, the administration of his successor Corazon Aquino froze Marcos's assets within U.S. banking channels in March 1986

WHOA.

The Saudi arms dealer Adnan Khashoggi also claimed to be involved with the building's purchase;[229] he asserted that he had owned the building for several years before the Bernsteins' alleged purchase.[226][227] Khashoggi was subsequently accused of helping the Marcoses hide their stakes in their buildings

Who are the Bernsteins, and what in the world was going on with the Philippines between WWII and 1990?

In July 1995, real estate developer Donald Trump signed a letter of intent to buy Kinson's lease and spend $100 million on renovations.

Is there a link between all of this and Short Circuit 2’s plot, somehow?

Ben and Fred hire some workers and move into a derelict warehouse which, unknown to them, is the base of operations for thieves who are tunneling into a bank vault across the street to steal a set of jewels known as the Vanderveer Collection.

One robot wanders away from his stand and ends up in the office of Sandy Banatoni, an assistant buyer for Simpsons' toy department.

‘Dasting.

Ben and Fred get Sandy to save them, using polyphonic renditions of songs that Ben learned on his date with her as clues to their location.

So a movie about hiding comms that might have hidden comms?

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