Trump: Congressional testimony on U.N. building renovation (2005)

Donald J Trump in his natural habitat!

In 2005 Donald J Trump Spoke at Congress about the United Nations Building in New York, and it's renovation. The project was completed in June of 2015. The total cost surpassed $2b. Trump wasn't ultimately part of the project. Trump had offered his services for free and spoke about the UN renovation project.

"Senator Coburn. So if the United Nations decides to go
ahead on the track that they are going now, and go out for a
$1.2 billion contract, you going to go get that business?
Mr. Trump. No, I am not going to get it. First of all, they
do not know what they want. They do not know what they have.
They have no idea what they are doing. It is a problem where
you cannot bid on a job like that. And I would not bid on it
anyway. I offered my services free. I wanted to save close to a
billion dollars, actually $1.1 billion at the time. I wanted to
save a billion dollars for the United Nations, for the world,
in a sense. I wanted to do it. I liked doing the Wollman
Skating Rink. I mean this is a bigger version of the Wollman
Skating Rink, that is all it is to me. And I said, ``I do not
want a fee, I do not want anything.'' They did not like the
idea."