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Can Donald Trump (search) come to the rescue of the United Nations and do the job for free?
At Senate hearings this month on the proposed $1.2 billion U.N. renovation plan, Trump blasted the proposal, saying U.N. officials are willing to pay twice as much as they need to on renovating the 50-year-old landmark headquarters on Manhattan’s East Side.
Trump, the real estate developer and star of the reality show “The Apprentice,” told FOX News that he’s offering his services to the United Nations (search) for free. He said he believes in the world body and thinks diplomats and the nations they represent are getting ripped off.
“I want to do it for nothing because the U.N. is that important,” Trump told FOX News. “Work needs to be started immediately.”
The New York billionaire builder wants to head up the U.N. renovation project that he says he can finish for half of what the United Nations has budgeted. Trump is very familiar with the area around the United Nations ” he built a luxury condominium skyscraper, the tallest such building in New York, overlooking the U.N. headquarters.
The U.N. complex that borders the East River is falling apart. With asbestos all over the place, leaks, and decrepit heating and air conditioning, the facility doesn’t even meet New York City (search) building codes.
The United Nations wants to build a new temporary headquarters nearby, move everybody out and then move them back in when the job is completed, but Trump said that’s a total waste of money.
Trump told the Senate Homeland Security Committee that U.N. officials don’t know what they are doing, they are naive, their plan’s a disaster, and that the United Nations is being taken to the cleaners.
How much would it cost the renovate the UN bbuilding? and how much would it cost to tear it down and move the whole damn UN to moscow or bejing?:lol:
I’ll do it for free too…all it takes is a lighter…
Kick the UN out of the US and lease the building to the makers of Viagra!
Ted
It could be torn town, re-built to a tax paying owner and money could be generated on the deal.
Trump was being charitable to the UN. This is one big PORK BARREL for the UN. This is Oil For Food all over again for the UN hangers on.
How much does a laser guided 1000 lb bomb cost? How much for the Air Force to drop it on the UN? How much and who would have to pick up the fares to the new UN HQ in Zimbabwe or Bangladesh?
Answer those questions, and you’ll have the cost to renovate the UN.
goodness gracious – since we have to be all things to all nations all the time; might i suggest a slightly used light blue porta-potty! as a new replacement. could easily be transported to frog land for a minimal amount.
The U.N., Is a political joke and has been for 60 years, but its been a joke on us all and a money maker for the third world nuts.
lets turn it into a mass homeless shelter i mean why should these liberal antiamerican thugs be allowed to stay in such a place while hundreds in NYC go homeless and sleep in boxes