In 1930,
an 18 year old Scottish woman, her name was Mary Anne McLeod,
she boarded the SS Transylvania.
It was bound for New York.
She came from the remote island of Lewis. It was a really rugged place shaped by hard weather and hard labor and limited opportunity.
And like millions before here, she came to America searching for something better.
Her sister had already come. And so when she arrived, she arrived with $50 in her in her pocket.
She registered as a domestic.
She was a nanny and a maid, a servant,
and she lived that life through the depths of the depression.
And she slowly built herself a life here in New York City.
Years later, she married a man named Frederick.
He was the son of the German immigrants.
They had first entered through America through Castle Garden. Remember I told you his name was Friedrich at first.
Well, they got married and they raised five children in Queens.
And eventually,
they had one of those children they named Donald.
He would be the one that would inherit eventually the family business.
But he had an appetite for risk
and a willingness to think and bet big, lose big sometimes,
but bet big and dream big,
and to pursue something even larger
than the New York skyline
itself.
But before becoming president of The United States, Donald Trump had a lot of work to do. He cut his teeth in real estate
just past this wall in New York. And one purchase in particular, he called it his Mona Lisa, if you will, and it exemplifies
his willingness to just take the bull by the horns.
The building is at the heart of a lawsuit
designed
to ruin him.
The address
is 40 Wall Street.
