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1992 letter to NY Mag from "Carolin Gallego"...or perhaps this was written by Trump. You decide. (Original Post) Miles Archer Oct 2017 OP
Gag me. Cracklin Charlie Oct 2017 #1
Another more honest letter in that same edition: Tommy_Carcetti Oct 2017 #2
Bore or Boor? maddiemom Oct 2017 #8
Bore AND Boor! meow2u3 Oct 2017 #10
...and Grifter. Don't forget grifter! n/t susanna Oct 2017 #34
Sickening. cwydro Oct 2017 #3
Yep that's him alright malaise Oct 2017 #4
If anyone is skeptical, this was posted on the NY Mag website two days ago. It's real. Skinner Oct 2017 #5
Real faked Carolin, that is.... BlancheSplanchnik Oct 2017 #14
"I love the best women, OK? Totally! Unbelievable!" Initech Oct 2017 #6
Read anything he has written or said, TNNurse Oct 2017 #7
Another lame attempt to polish his own turd. maveric Oct 2017 #9
Whether there is a Carolin Gallego who wrote it or not Virtual Burlesque Oct 2017 #11
No, she really exists! She has been found! Orangeutan Oct 2017 #26
I did a search on the name Siwsan Oct 2017 #27
Hell, I can HEAR him saying it!! 7962 Oct 2017 #12
I Found another letter! Lokilooney Oct 2017 #13
😆👌🏾. BlancheSplanchnik Oct 2017 #15
HAHAHA! Like we don't know Trump when we read him. The most beautiful women! Honeycombe8 Oct 2017 #16
Oops: PCIntern Oct 2017 #17
Was there an actual Carolin Gallego? keithbvadu2 Oct 2017 #18
Some sleuths need to get on this. Verifying that he ever had a real secretary Grammy23 Oct 2017 #20
I am betting Trumps real Secretary was a very large man jmowreader Oct 2017 #25
I bet Carolin Gallego got her info from John Barron n/t TexasBushwhacker Oct 2017 #19
OK this definitely goes into the movie. grantcart Oct 2017 #21
Barf! NurseJackie Oct 2017 #22
That is exactly the way he talks Dopers_Greed Oct 2017 #23
It's all him. That's his writing style. That's his ego. louis-t Oct 2017 #24
I hope Carolin made enough to retire on, from that sig Maynar Oct 2017 #28
Either Ms. Gallego . . . peggysue2 Oct 2017 #29
Obvious. And wow. Iggo Oct 2017 #30
Oh you mean like Cruella de vil .. oh wait, I mean Amarosa ! YOHABLO Oct 2017 #31
Hahahahaha. What are we 14 again. History differs completely onit2day Oct 2017 #32
Thanks for an unexpected laugh, Miles. Hortensis Oct 2017 #33
The last sentence....... Beacool Oct 2017 #35
He hasn't matured at all since 1992. n/t Judi Lynn Oct 2017 #36

Tommy_Carcetti

(43,157 posts)
2. Another more honest letter in that same edition:
Thu Oct 26, 2017, 10:07 AM
Oct 2017
https://books.google.com/books?id=o-QCAAAAMBAJ&pg=PA11&lpg=PA11&dq=julie+baumgold+article+trump+fighting+back&source=bl&ots=jX-XnT7TFS&sig=CSthcvP_dPlkVQYI75z3-oJLZbM&hl=en&sa=X&ved=0ahUKEwjywOLpuY7XAhUESSYKHXGCDKQQ6AEIPzAE#v=onepage&q=julie%20baumgold%20article%20trump%20fighting%20back&f=false

"Donald Trump may well be 'the greatest,' 'the toughest', etc. as he says. But he should also add yet another superlative to his self-definition: He is also, without doubt, the biggest bore in the United States today.

Anne Jordan Crouse
Mansfield Center, Conn."

Skinner

(63,645 posts)
5. If anyone is skeptical, this was posted on the NY Mag website two days ago. It's real.
Thu Oct 26, 2017, 11:24 AM
Oct 2017
http://nymag.com/daily/intelligencer/2017/10/read-letters-to-new-york-from-spike-lee-and-donald-trump.html

“Based on the fact that I work for Donald Trump as his secretary — and therefore know him well — I think he treats women with great respect, contrary to what Julie Baumgold implied in her article … I do not believe any man in America gets more calls from women wanting to see him, meet him, or go out with him. The most beautiful women, the most successful women — all women love Donald Trump.” —Carolin Gallego, December 7, 1992

BlancheSplanchnik

(20,219 posts)
14. Real faked Carolin, that is....
Thu Oct 26, 2017, 07:10 PM
Oct 2017

Authentic shitgibbon self-adulation. He sounds exactly the same, 25 years later.

TNNurse

(6,926 posts)
7. Read anything he has written or said,
Thu Oct 26, 2017, 12:26 PM
Oct 2017

that is his "sentence" structure. Those are his adjectives. Pathetic attempt.

Virtual Burlesque

(132 posts)
11. Whether there is a Carolin Gallego who wrote it or not
Thu Oct 26, 2017, 02:18 PM
Oct 2017

Donald Trump dictated it.

That is definitely Donald Trump, speaking style. YUCK!

Siwsan

(26,255 posts)
27. I did a search on the name
Fri Oct 27, 2017, 03:12 PM
Oct 2017

I found one person with that spelling, and the last name Gallego - a woman currently in her mid 40's. So it's doubtful that she wrote that little ditty.

The name 'Carolin' doesn't garner a lot of hits.

The name Carolyn Gallego is a little more common, but somehow I don't think she would mess up the spelling of her own name.

It is more likely that trump* misspelled 'Carolyn' when he made up that particular alter ego. Or, he suffers from Dissociative Identity Disorder.

 

7962

(11,841 posts)
12. Hell, I can HEAR him saying it!!
Thu Oct 26, 2017, 04:48 PM
Oct 2017

Come on, Donald, you HAVE to know that nobody would be fooled by this shit

Lokilooney

(322 posts)
13. I Found another letter!
Thu Oct 26, 2017, 06:14 PM
Oct 2017

SPEAKING AS SOMEONE who has worked with Donald Trump in the past no one has more respect for women than him, OK, that I can tell you. Allot of women, allot have great respect for him many, many women. He also has the classiest most luxurious real hair of anyone I know. It's probably why so many beautiful classy women want to date him, I don't think any woman in the world would not want to see him Ok. I sure wanted to bigly' but that would have been unprofessional and I can tell you no one is more professional than Donald Trump believe me.

PS: He has the most normal sized hands of anyone, no size problem there or anywhere else or so I heard.

Janelle Carroll
February 9, 1994

Honeycombe8

(37,648 posts)
16. HAHAHA! Like we don't know Trump when we read him. The most beautiful women!
Thu Oct 26, 2017, 07:48 PM
Oct 2017

The most successful women! I wonder what precipitated that letter.

keithbvadu2

(36,722 posts)
18. Was there an actual Carolin Gallego?
Thu Oct 26, 2017, 09:58 PM
Oct 2017

Did he use the name of a real person in his employ or just a fake name?

Grammy23

(5,810 posts)
20. Some sleuths need to get on this. Verifying that he ever had a real secretary
Thu Oct 26, 2017, 11:15 PM
Oct 2017

by this name ought to be easy enough. He needs to be humiliated for this, but on second thought he is incapable of humiliation. His emotions range from A. to B. Annoyed to ballistic. That’s it.

But seriously, as the stories about John Miller and John Barron were found out. This alleged secretary oughta be a piece of cake to find.

jmowreader

(50,543 posts)
25. I am betting Trumps real Secretary was a very large man
Fri Oct 27, 2017, 02:53 PM
Oct 2017

One able to escort large Italian gentlemen whose vocabulary seems limited to the phrase “where’s the fuckin’ money, schmuck?” out of Trump’s office.

Dopers_Greed

(2,640 posts)
23. That is exactly the way he talks
Fri Oct 27, 2017, 09:40 AM
Oct 2017

Right down to that stupid way he always refers to himself in third person.

peggysue2

(10,826 posts)
29. Either Ms. Gallego . . .
Fri Oct 27, 2017, 04:21 PM
Oct 2017

Channeled Donald T. Trump for this letter, had a gun to her head while she was writing it or the Trumpster dictated the note and Ms Gallego signed off because better to be working than standing in the unemployment line.

Of course, the other possibility is this chirpy note of praise was written by one of Trumpy's alter-egos then affixed with a pseudonym.

How literary!

This is classic Trump-speak. The Orange Sun King's 'style' is unmistakable, his glorious, telling way with words decades in the making.

The man is demented.

Hortensis

(58,785 posts)
33. Thanks for an unexpected laugh, Miles.
Tue Oct 31, 2017, 02:48 AM
Oct 2017

He certainly has a...distinctive style. Personally, I thought Doonsbury captured a surfeit over 30 years, but here we are.

What will a national cultural backlash against trump immersion be like, I wonder? Something good if it's an opposite reaction.

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