As president, Trump doesn’t want “beautiful statues” to be taken down. As an entrepreneur, though...
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00:00But couldn't you have saved just those sculptures that you had broken?
00:02Well, it would have been very, very dangerous to have saved them.
00:21You were recently the object of a lot of controversy because you order destroyed
00:25some sculptures on the building that you bought
00:28that the Metropolitan Art Museum wanted.
00:30Why did you have those destroyed, first of all, and what happens to the look of a city?
00:33We purchased a site with an old department store on it,
00:36the old Bonwit Teller store on Fifth Avenue and 57th Street next to Tiffany,
00:39and we had to really take the building down.
00:41And there were many people that didn't want us to take it down.
00:43They wanted to try and preserve the building.
00:45But the building really was not worth, as an art building or an art deco building,
00:49it really was not worth very much.
00:51And we did take it down, and there was somewhat of an outcry.
00:54But I think that's generally subsided now.
00:57And they've really proven not to be very valuable art structures right now.
01:00And we've had appraisals done.