John Miller really admired Donald Trump – and I
mean, really admired Donald Trump.
You could hear it in his voice.
In 1991, when People Magazine reporter, Sue
Carswell placed a phone call to Donald Trump to get a scoop on an upcoming
story, she lucked out when John Miller returned her call. John Miller said he
was “sort of handling PR.” For a sort of handler of PR, he had an awful lot of
information to share about Donald Trump’s very public personal life.
If you listen to the tape recording of the phone
call or read the transcript, you will see that John Miller did not sound
smooth, prepared or professional. For a publicist, he was surprisingly
inarticulate and rambling.
But he did have very clear intentions.
He wanted to set the record straight on the
breathtaking love life of his employer, Donald Trump.
The People Magazine story should tell readers that
in divorcing his wife, Ivana, Donald Trump had been very generous, even though he
didn’t have to be so generous. She and her lawyer were clearly trying to get
around the terms of his prenuptial agreement. And the judge was helping them.
But Donald prevailed. Donald Trump always prevailed.
It was also important for readers to know that
Ivana wanted to get back together with him, even though she had recently said the
exact opposite in an interview with Barbara Walters. That falsehood needed to
be set straight.
And now he had broken up with Marla Maples, but that
didn’t have anything to do with her. It was just that it was “too soon after
his divorce” for him to “be making a commitment.” But he was going to be very
good to Marla. And everyone should know that the ring he bought her was definitely
“never an engagement ring,” even though it was being falsely reported that way
in the press.
Even back in those days, the press was often unfair
to Donald Trump, but in this case, that was okay because Donald Trump was
“immune” to bad press. In fact it was better than okay because if he had gotten
a lot of good press, Ivana and her lawyer would have known that Donald had
weathered his financial set-backs and was now “doing well financially and in
every other way,” and it would have cost him more to settle his divorce,
because Ivana would have held out for a better deal.
So, the press played right into his hands, and it
all worked in Donald Trump’s favor.
And to set the record straight on his supposed
engagement to Marla, the next time he goes into a jewelry store to buy a gift
for a woman, he will not make the mistake of buying a ring, because of how that
can be misinterpreted, presumably by lawyers, judges, and future girl friends as
being a marriage commitment.
He was capable of learning from his mistakes.
And about his budding relationship with model,
Carla Bruni, “she is very beautiful,” “they are great friends,” and her father
is “one of the richest men in Europe.”
But we should not expect to see an exclusive
relationship develop with Carla because, as publicist, John Miller explained to
Sue Carswell:
“…I
think he’s got a whole open field really. A lot of people really. A lot of
people that you write about…really are, I mean they call. They just call.
Actresses, people that you write about just call to see if they can go out with
him and things.”
Oh, and Madonna wanted to date him, but he really
wasn’t interested. We should know that. We should! Stop rolling your eyes!
And one more piece of bad reporting, depriving the
public of an important truth, was a story that Donald wanted to go out with
Madonna, when in reality, Donald Trump wasn’t interested in Madonna. Got it?
To truly understand the mind of Donald Trump (and
who doesn’t?), you have to appreciate its complexity. And this historically
important interview about the man and his women, gives us a glimpse of that
complexity – especially this, according to John Miller:
“[Carla] is a very successful model, etc.,
etc. But again, he didn’t leave Marla for her. He just wants [indiscernible],
he does things for himself. He leaves for himself, he does things for himself.
He, when he makes the decision, that will be a
very lucky woman. But he’s not going to
do that until he makes the decision. You know, when he makes the decision. He’s
very capable of total commitment when he makes the decision. But he felt it’s
too soon. Off the record, he probably felt Marla wasn’t the right one, or
whatever, but he just felt it was too soon.”
If you do
not know how this interview turned out, it might have hit you by now that the
rather scattered delivery of John Miller is strangely similar to the very
scattered delivery of Donald Trump.
And the reason for this similarity is that John
Miller actually was Donald Trump pretending to be the completely fictitious
John Miller, speaking on behalf of Donald Trump.
When presidential candidate, Donald Trump was
confronted with the tape of this fascinating, but disturbing, phone interview
from his past, he of course set the record straight:
“…it
doesn’t sound like my voice at all. I have many, many people that are trying to
imitate my voice and then you can imagine that, and this sounds like one of
those scams, one of the many scams – doesn’t sound like me.”
So, are you going to believe him or your lying
ears?
I blew past my two minutes. Sorry, I just had to.
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