At the Desk of: The Trumps The Trump Organization’s main office used to fit nicely on the 26th floor of Trump Tower in Midtown until three of Donald Sr.’s children came on board. Now, Trump père is upstairs while Donald, Jr., 30, Ivanka, 27, and Eric, 26, sit in adjacent glass-walled offices. The spaces, which have sweeping Fifth Avenue views, are command central for an international development effort, with more than 15 projects either being built or planned. But the team isn’t ignoring their hometown, where they’re selling the 45-story Trump Soho, whose 400 hotel-condos are 60 percent sold after 15 months. BY C.J. HUGHES AND JILL GARDINER
Photograph of Don Jr. as a kid with wrestling star Hulk Hogan. “When you were a kid in the ’80s, Hulk Hogan was the biggest guy in the world,” he said.
“Dads Against Daughters Dating” hat from a friend, in honor of his 18-month-old daughter, Kai. He and wife Vanessa have another baby due next month.
Photo of Don Jr. hunting at Pawling Mountain Club in Duchess County, N.Y., last year with Prudential Douglas Elliman chairman Howard Lorber, real estate bigwig Jeffery Lichtenberg, real estate attorney Jay Neveloff and Don’s brother, Eric.
Golf clubs. Don Jr. won his brother’s charity golf tournament recently. “I’m actually not a good player, but I find out what scoring system they are using,” and pick a good team, he joked.
A Donald Trump bobblehead doll.
A Dunhill attaché case, a gift from Vanessa when they started dating in 2003.
He uses the camera for “baby drooling pictures” and for shots of projects and potential development sites.
Passport filled with stamps from trips for business and pleasure, including Argentina, Kazakhstan, Prague, South Africa and Zimbabwe. He said he’s been to 18 countries on business since May.
Hotel Investment Outlook, a trade magazine, put the Trump family on its cover to profile their current Chicago project, a 92-story hotel-condo property that’s 70 percent sold.
Deal toys for financing on Trump projects in Chicago, Las Vegas and other company development sites.
Regular reading includes the Wall Street Journal, the New York Times, the New York Post (he jokes he reads Page Six for updates on his family) and, of course, The Real Deal.
A model of the spheretopped Baiterek Tower in Kazakhstan is a gift from the Central Asian country’s president.
These pink golf clubs are decorative, although Ivanka does hit the links a few times a year. “I try to rationalize that it’s market research,” she said.
The 2008 Arabian Property Award honors Trump’s Dubai project, developed in conjunction with local developer Nakheel.
There’s always at least one white orchid on the desk, a reminder of her 2005 vacation to Patagonia, where they grow. These oversized scissors, used to cut the ribbon on the new Trump hotel in Las Vegas, are identical to a pair that Donald Trump, Sr. accidentally left in the bottom of a suitcase, prompting a minor incident in an airport.
A battle-ax-shaped bass guitar signed by Kiss star Gene Simmons, who was a contestant on last year’s Celebrity Apprentice. Eric, who doesn’t play bass, will soon auction it.
A photo of a skydiving trip in Southern California after a recent season of Celebrity Apprentice, the NBC show created by the Donald. Ivanka has guest-starred on the show since 2006.
This helmet is from the family’s new Las Vegas hotel-condo, which opened in May. Its 1,282 rooms are sold out.
Eric, who fly-fishes a couple times a month, poses on a trip with a friend. Favorite holes for trout: the Catskills and northwestern Connecticut.
This construction helmet honors Trump Ocean Club in Panama City, Panama, an under-construction 2.6-millionsquare-foot, 60-story tower that will be the tallest in Central and South America.
Boxing gloves are signed by Lennox Lewis, the heavyweight boxer who appeared on the 2008 season of Celebrity Apprentice.
Michael Phelps, winner of eight gold medals in last summer’s Olympics, autographed this photo as a gift to Eric, a fan. Two awards from St. Jude Children’s Research Hospital to Eric’s two-year-old charity, which has raised $750,000 to help kids with life-threatening illnesses. “We have everything in the world, so we should be giving something back,” he said.
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After college, Ivanka worked at Forest City Ratner Companies. She keeps her old business card from the job — where she worked on a new shopping mall in Yonkers
This baseball, autographed by the members of the 1961 Yankees (including Mickey Mantle and Yogi Berra), was a gift from his father when Eric was 6.
