Trump Schools West Point Graduates On ‘Trophy Wives’ In Commencement Speech as Part of Life ‘Tips’

Part of President Donald Trump’s life “tips” to West Point graduates on Saturday was a nugget of wisdom about “trophy wives.”

Trump delivered the commencement address at the United States Military Academy in New York on Saturday to what he described as the first West Point graduates in the “golden age” of the United States. During his talk, the president offered what he described as the most important lessons he’s learned over his lifetime. Among those “tips” were: “have to do what you love,” “the harder you work the luckier you’ll get,” and “don’t lose your momentum.”

On the “momentum” topic, Trump told a tale about real estate developer William Levitt that he’s referenced before. The president views Levitt as a prime example of “lost momentum” and part of him losing that momentum was ditching his company and running off with a “trophy wife.”

“He became very rich, became a very rich man. And then he decided to sell. He was offered a lot of money by a big conglomerate, Gulf and Western, big conglomerate. They didn’t do real estate. They didn’t know anything about it, but they saw the money he was making,” Trump said about Levitt.

After taking a “tremendous” amount of money, he continued, Levitt got a divorce and remarried.

“He ended up getting a divorce, found a new wife — could you say a trophy wife? I guess we can say a trophy wife — it didn’t work out too well. But that doesn’t work out too well, I must tell you, a lot of trophy wives, it doesn’t it work. But it made him happy for a little while, at least. But he found a new wife,” Trump said.

According to the president, Levitt ended up bankrupt after buying his company back 15 years later — after he’d lost his momentum.

“He said, I’ll never forget, he said, ‘I’ve lost my momentum, I just didn’t have it. I used to have it, but I lost my moment,'” Trump said.

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