On a cool afternoon in Mid-August, ten days before New Orleans drowned, Donald Trump glad-handed a group of developers paying him to put his name on their planned $300 million, 70-story hotel-condo on Poy-dras Street in downtown. "Really nice guys," Trump says. "They wanted me to be a partner. We made a deal." On Friday, Aug. 26 the Times-Picayune trumpeted Trump's deal on the front page, saying he "would bring glitz to the city's real estate market" and convert a parking lot into the city's first new skyscraper in 25 years. Buried on page six of the sports section, a single sentence in the "Anglers Almanac" warned fishermen: "Tropical Storm Katrina may come into play."
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