I mean, we have Central Park in New York. I would certainly say the second alternative would be acceptable, doing a great park- just something magnificent. TRUMP: Well, I think the third alternative is not acceptable. And the third alternative, and only third, would be this Freedom Tower? If you can't have that, leave the site for a memorial plot. MATTHEWS: So an order of what you desire - and you're the number-one developed in New York - is you'd like to see a World Trade Center rebuilt with an extra floor. I think whatever you build on that site, Chris, is going to be very tough to rent for obvious reasons. I like that much better than what I'm seeing architecturally.
I know Rudy Giuliani at one point wanted that, or substantially wanted that. So the case could be made to build a great monumental park and call it "Monumental Park," and that's what it would be. TRUMP: Well, look, the market conditions are going to be tough for anything you build on that site. MATTHEWS: Well, if that's the case, maybe you are for that third option of just leaving that amputation site down there, which makes a clear statement to the world, "We were hit hard and heard it. So I'm very happy to have my building at 40 Wall Street. Whether you build the World Trade Center, or the Freedom Tower, or anything on that site, I think personally it's going to be a very hard rent. And a lot of people aren't going to want to go in. I mean, Larry Silverstein is having a hard time getting tenants for a building that's a block away, and it's sitting there empty almost complete. To be honest with you, I think it's economically a very, very tough deal because whether you build a World Trade Center or build Freedom Tower, a lot of people aren't going to go in. Do you think people won't go up in those towers or take the elevator to the 100th floor of a new World Trade Center knowing there are still terrorists in the world? In fact, there will be more terrorists by the time we have the building done. MATTHEWS: Well, the guys who really suffered, and the women, were the ones who had to jump off a hundred-floor building to their death rather than fry to death. The right statement to make is to rebuild the World Trade Center. Look, we're going to suffer with these buildings for hundreds of years in New York City. The governor is a friend of mine-I really like the governor-but for some reason, somebody is just misleading him down this path where we're going. They do polls they do studies they do everything. TRUMP: Well, I just think it's a terrible design.
You believe none of these efforts are going to make the building what you want it to be? And you know, if you look at it, what is it really? It's a 60-story building with a skeleton on top of it because you've got 40 or 50 stories with nothing in between. I mean, the worst of all, it's a skeletal building. (Lower Manhattan Development Corporation via Getty Images) Getty Images North America
New York State Governor George Pataki said that the proposed 1,776-foot tall Freedom Tower must be redesigned to address security concerns raised by the New York City Police Department. NEW YORK: (FILE PHOTO) In this undated handout image provided by the Lower Manhattan Development Corporation, a rendering of the Freedom Tower and World Trade Center memorial known as \"Reflecting Absence\" is shown from the southeast looking north. It was designed by an egghead architect who really doesn't have a lot of experience of designing something like this. Is that a better monument than the Freedom Towers, just not having anything? Or would you rather have the World Trade Towers back?ĭONALD TRUMP: I'd rather have nothing than what they're building, Chris. The bottom of the island looks amputated.
Speaking into now the counter, every time I fly over Manhattan I see basically an amputated Battery area. CHRIS MATTHEWS, 'HARDBALL' HOST: Donald Trump, thank you for joining us in amidst of this controversy over the World Trade Towers.
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