Trump Entertains Crowd During Furniture Launch

March 27, 2007  by in UnCategorized   

By Home Furnishings Business in on March 2007 Donald Trump sparked lots of laughs from a crowd of more than 350 buyers, reporters and others who gathered at Lexington Home Brands Tuesday for the launch of Trump Home.

In brief remarks and a question-and-answer session, he touched on his long-running feuds with Rosie O’Donnell and Martha Stewart. At one point, he said of O’Donnell. “We build a very high-quality bed, but they’re not strong enough for her.” He later asserted that he was unimpressed with furniture from Stewart’s collections she showed him “when we were on speaking terms.”

Trump said he’d seen many individual pieces from the collection, but Tuesday marked the first time he’d seen the entire collection in a showroom setting. He was so impressed, he said the collections will be used in a planned expansion of a new Las Vegas hotel project and in model apartments of a building he’s renovating that will include one apartment priced at $43 million. He said the furniture may also have a role in future seasons of his hit TV show, “The Apprentice.”

Following his remarks, Trump mingled easily with reporters and buyers—posing for a succession of photos with buying teams and asking detailed questions of buyers about their plans for Trump Home rollouts. He said New York-based Macy’s, which sells a line of licensed Trump apparel, has committed to Trump Home, and other retailers at the event also expressed confidence the line will generate strong sales.