Donald Trump to attend Ivana’s funeral in Manhattan

New Yorkers find out about falling off the sting — or at the very least dwelling on it.

I’m having a pedicure, manicured fingernails nonetheless moist, cranky canine barking — on his option to the vet as a result of his paw hurts — and the cellphone rings.

POTUS. No. 45. Donald Trump.

Not a enterprise cellphone name. Easy. Fast. No political chat.

Two human beings who’ve lengthy shared life, loss of life, success, tragedies and been there for each other a lifetime.

DJT: “I’m right here. I’m in New York. I’m feeling OK. I had some relaxation. Slightly sleep. However I’m unhappy.”

The voice, low.

“I’m simply pondering how nicely you knew Ivana. You knew her very nicely. You knew her from the primary. From the very starting. From once I first met her. She was lovely. She was particular. I do know you and she or he favored one another from the earliest day.”

Quick pause. Then, quietly: “She was excellent. Lovely inside and outside. We started all of it, our lives collectively, with such an incredible relationship.”

What does he bear in mind as one in every of her best attributes?

“That she was completely different. That she by no means gave up. Lovely, sure, however she was additionally a tough employee. Regardless of how tough issues have been or how badly they appeared she by no means fell down. She went from communism to our lives collectively. She took nothing as a right.”

A second’s pause after which, since we had simply misplaced somebody who was so significant to us, I requested if he thought we have been about to additionally lose our nation.

Donald: “It’s horrible. We’ve by no means been at such a low level. That journey to Saudi Arabia? Now we have extra oil than they’ve. This man in Washington is setting us all again. Setting all people again.””

A second’s pause, then: “Look, let’s us simply handle to get by this terrible painful expertise. And after this . . . simply bear in mind . . . simply bear in mind what I’m telling you . . . 78 shouldn’t be previous.”

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I’m pondering New York at this time.

Curtis Sliwa: “Service provider seaman 54 years, my father was usually laid off due to a strike. The Salvation Military gave seamen $2 every day so that they wouldn’t be grabbed by cops, charged with loitering and despatched away for six months. By no means tried to transform the seamen.

“Our meals and garments got here from the Salvation Military. And we realized to bowl at their heart close to our Polish language Catholic college. They by no means tried to transform us.

“In Gary, Ind., and Manchester, NH, the Salvation Military donated area for me to coach Guardian Angels recruits — when no one else would.

“So attain into your pocket. Put your spare turn into their crimson kettle.”

This Forest Hills man owned a Honda. He purchased it second hand. The pandemic modified his world. So he determined to unload this previous automotive. So he bought it. The brand new purchaser paid the precise quantity this dude had paid to purchase the used factor six years earlier.

Solely in New York, youngsters, solely in New York.