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The decades-long friendship of two men who never changed.
By Matt Flegenheimer
Report from Hollywood, Florida.
For more than three decades, boxing promoter Don King and Donald J. Trump share an enduring friendship and obvious similarities: an unmistakable hairstyle and a self-centered courage that has something of a superpower to it, a trail of embattled creditors, and an unshakable confidence that more is more. .
“Put some fuel in the tank,” King, 92, said at a South Florida bistro-casino, presiding over an afternoon session. meeting. Breakfast consisting of New York tenderloin, 3 easy eggs, bacon, sausage, pancakes, oatmeal, cranberry juice, coffee (“black like me”), with agave syrup and African hot sauce he brought from home.
His waiter asked him if anything was missing. “Yes,” Mr. King, “we’re going to want more butter. “
Like any figure in M. Trump’s grandiose and unbridled public life, King modeled what Trump considered a black man’s good fortune in America. For the former president, King is already a best friend and an example: half a generation older and an avatar of the unrepentant excesses and street bravado in King’s heyday. Trump in the 1980s in New York.
If the celebrated promoter might seem like he was transported on planes from another era (when the boxing industry was king, when Mr. King was the boxing industry, when the accounts were settled outside the ring and the legal formula) this was the moment when much of Trump’s global vision turns out to have frozen into a global vision.
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