So what I am going to type about now has nothing to do much about the political Donald Trump. I am reading a book about NYC discos and night life in general from the late '60's to the early to mid '80's. I lived in NYC in those days, was not saved, and went out a bit to the clubs and discos when I reached my late teens, early 20's.
The focus of the book was on studio 54. I get to the chapter of the opening night, and it describes that a fairly well known club goer in Manhattan in those days was a woman named Nikki Haskell. I guess either Ivanka or Donald Trump must have known her or her date, because the 4 of them were having dinner at Elaine's on April 26th, 1977, the night Studio 54 opened. She had gotten onto the invite list for the opening night, although she had no idea how.
So as they finish dinner, she says "c'mon, there's a new club opening tonight. Why don't we go?" So they went. The book implies they got there at maybe around 8:30 to 9pm.
It was open, but because they had a early dinner, they got there not long after the place opened it's doors. There were only a handful of people there at that point. though later in the evening it would be packed. The place was huge, being a old stage for CBS doing TV shows. So with only a handful of people, it looked almost deserted.
That's the story. We have a presidential candidate that can put on his resume was there the opening night of the all time worlds most famous disco. Although that is something he might want to keep off.