Summary

Chapter 3 is titled “Personal Values.” Trump was the motivational speaker in Colorado in 2005. He said he was paid a lot for his time but he spoke without even creating a rough outline of things to cover. He rambled about the inefficiency of an airport and made personal attacks on a formal employee, whom Trump said was disloyal to him. His advice was to get revenge and to be paranoid in business dealings. Some attendees later said his advice was counter-productive.

Trump had taken his own advice about revenge. He had fired that disloyal employee when she refused to ask a favor on Trump's behalf to a friend in a position of power. When people asked Trump for a reference on the woman later, he was brutal in his negativity. That attitude also carried over to actress Rosie O'Donnell, who had called Trump “a...