During a visit to Cincinnati on Wednesday, President Donald Trump talked about his love for the Queen City and even mentioned a local apartment complex where he spent time with his father.
“I spent three summers in the Queen City,” Trump said about the Swifton Village apartments in Bond Hill. “It was a great experience with my father when I was very young.”
A 2015 Politico article talks about Trump touting it as the site of his first big deal.
The article mentions Trump’s book, which names Cincinnati as the place where his real estate career started.
“In the 1960s, he and his father bought in the city’s Bond Hill neighborhood a 1,200-unit apartment complex called Swifton Village, fixed it up, filled it up and eventually sold it for a profit of approximately $6 million, according to Trump’s retelling in his book, The Art of the Deal,” the article says, quoting Trump’s book.
“My timing was really good,” he told Politico in 2015.
The Politico article, though, goes on to say that the deal was less than lucrative.
“Trump’s father, not Trump, purchased the property in January 1964 — the middle of Trump’s senior year in high school at the upstate New York Military Academy,” the article says. “During Trump’s time in college and after he graduated from the University of Pennsylvania’s undergraduate business school in 1968, he intermittently helped his father at the apartments doing mostly menial tasks like yardwork, Swifton workers told local reporters.”