For those of you not familiar with the Wollman Skating Rink in New York City, let me introduce you to how Donald Trump got his introduction to fixing broken, inefficient, ineffectual governance.
When then-Mayor Ed Koch closed the iconic rink in 1980, it was a broken-down mess, a shell of the famous sheet of ice that featured in numerous movies, including “Love Story.”
“The city promised to reopen it by 1985. But Koch’s incompetent commissioners and contractors let the job run $12 million over its original $4.7 million budget, and by 1986, the finish line was nowhere in sight,” the New York Post’s Steve Cuozzo wrote just days after Trump’s 2017 inauguration as president.
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In June 1986, Trump said he’d have Wollman opened by Christmas
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