February 1999,I was in a freezing New York, just across the street from Donald Trump's tall-rise homestead, and reporting for the London-based Antiques Trade Gazette on a celebrity charity wristwatch auction being beamed live via a then largely unfamiliar thing called 'the Internet'.
Unfortunately,en route to the event I left my new Pentax SLR camera on the rear seat of a yellow cab (mobile phones were still relatively new-fangled devices back then and none had cameras installed).
Had I not lost my camera, I'd have been in the weird position of snapping at close quarters the narcissistic, and bullying,misogynistic, homophobic, or racist,Islamophobic, Putin-idolising, or bellicose,hip-shooting, tricologically-challenged, and tax-dodging,President-Elect and future Commander-in-Chief of the USA: "the most powerful job in the world".
[br]Trump bought Ronald Reagan's unprepossessing Colibri wristwatch that night for $7000. I wonder whether he still owns it?
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