It’s difficult to imagine what a second life for this one might be like. It’s arguably not even his the holder of the freshly refinanced mortgage is Axos, a California bank, but to everyone else, it’s Donald Trump’s building. It will then join the Pan Am building, the RCA Building at Rockefeller Plaza, and the Triborough and Queensboro bridges on the list of structures whose old names linger long after a new sign goes up.
If that happens, any new owner will almost surely remove the ten gold letters atop the entrance and call it something else. And now he may lose it, as a lawsuit by Attorney General Letitia James attempts to cancel some of the Trump Organization’s business licenses. It’s the one that made him, the one he chose for his home and his office and his TV show and his campaign headquarters, the one where he descended the escalator in 2015 and subsequently brought a good part of the world down with him. Trump Tower, though - that one’s different. Anything expensive with his name on it does.
His other buildings, of course, matter to Donald Trump.
