
Paul Tashner
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Paul Tashner
@PTashner
Adventurer, MBA & Anthropologist. Grandpa. 22 yrs int'l business & travel, x-USSR, Africa, Europe. Built @Jeep biznis in Kazakhstan. @UVa @Wahoo 1980!











🚨Today whether I want it to or not… the truth about Donald Trump is coming out. And nobody… not the media not his critics… not the people who have spent years trying to bury this story… can stop it from reaching you today. Because what Trump did in 1986… before he was a politician… before he was President… before any of it… is something the entire city of New York still remembers. And it is time the rest of America remembered it too. 😭 1986. New York City. Central Park. The Wollman Ice Rink. A place where families were supposed to bring their children. Where couples were supposed to skate hand in hand. Where the city was supposed to give its people something beautiful. Supposed to. Because for 6 straight years… the city government tried to fix that rink. 6 years. $13 million of taxpayer money. And every single time… they failed. The children of New York waited. And waited. And waited. While politicians made promises. While bureaucrats held meetings. While millions of dollars disappeared into a project that never seemed to get finished. And the families of New York… just kept waiting. Then one day… Donald Trump walked into the Mayor’s office. Not as a politician. Not as a President. Just as a man who was tired of watching his city fail its own people. And he said four words that every politician in that room probably laughed at. “Give me the contract.” The Mayor said yes. Probably because nobody else was stepping forward. Probably because six years of failure had made everyone desperate. Probably because what did they have to lose. And what happened next… is the story that should have been on every front page in America. Trump pulled $2.5 million out of his own pocket. His own money. Not government money. Not a grant. Not a loan. His. And he went to work. No excuses. No delays. No committees deciding what color the ice should be. Just work. Relentless. Focused. Determined work. Four months later… the Wollman Ice Rink opened. Not six years. Not after another $13 million. Four months. And he came in $750,000 UNDER budget. The children of New York who had been waiting for six years… finally got to skate. Families who had given up hope… showed up that winter and felt something they hadn’t felt in a long time. That someone actually cared enough to finish what they promised. That someone put their own money where their mouth was. That someone chose this city… over comfort… over convenience… over keeping $2.5 million safely in his own bank account. And here is what breaks me completely every single time I think about this… Trump never had to do any of it. He was a businessman. A private citizen. Nobody elected him. Nobody asked him to fix it. He just… couldn’t watch his city fail its people one more day. And walked in. And fixed it. With his own hands. His own money. His own four months. That rink is still standing today. Right there in Central Park. The same place it has been since 1986. And every single person who has ever laced up their skates and stepped onto that ice… has skated on Donald Trump’s sacrifice. Most of them never knew it. Most of them still don’t. But now you do. And now you understand why… whether people want to admit it or not… the truth about this man keeps finding its way back to the surface. 😭🙏🇺🇸 Drop a ❤️ right now if this story hit you somewhere deep. Type “THIS IS THE REAL TRUMP” in the comments. Tag someone who needs to know that long before the White House… long before the rallies… long before any of it… Donald Trump was already showing up for America. With his own money. In his own city. For children who just wanted to skate. #Trump #personalgrowth #motivation #lifestyle






























