B13 Peer Review

Trump and Sharpton in 2002. (Mario Tama/Getty) O n a frigid January night in 1988, 16,000 spectators packed into Atlantic City’s Convention Center to see 21-year-old Mike Tyson take on boxing legend Larry Holmes, 38. The event, marketed as “Heavyweight History,” sold out, with an even larger audience watching as Home Box Office televised the event. In a ring emblazoned with Trump Plaza branding, Tyson repeatedly knocked down Holmes, until, to great uproar, the referee stopped the fight five seconds before the end of the fourth round. But Holmes and Tyson weren’t the only spectacular pair in the arena that night. Leaving the Convention Center, amid fans vociferously enraptured with the night’s drama, was Donald Trump — and not far behind him, “in a light blue suit with his ever-present Martin Luther King Jr. peace medallion resting on his barrel chest, was Mr. [Al] Sharpton,” the  New York Times  reported. Sharpton and Trump forged an unlikely friendship over ...

Kara Young, a model, and Donald J. Trump at a film screening in Manhattan in 1998. They dated for two years. Credit Richard Corkery/New York Daily News Archive, via Getty Images By  Yamiche Alcindor  and  Maggie Haberman Aug. 17, 2017 WASHINGTON — Kara Young, a model who dated Donald J. Trump for two years before he married another model named Melania Knauss, remembers clearly bringing up her race with the real estate tycoon early in their relationship. As with so many issues, he steered the conversation to celebrity. “I didn’t hide my race from Donald Trump. He knew,” Ms. Young said in a rare interview. “He would say, ‘You’re like Derek Jeter.’ And I would say, ‘Exactly.’” “I never heard him say a disparaging comment towards any race of people,” she added. The furor that Mr. Trump has created  with his equivocation over the violence this weekend at a  white supremacist march in Charlottesville, Va. , has refocused attention on the president...

Singer  Lil' Kim  is flanked by  Donald Trump  and girlfriend Melania Knauss at a party at Cipriani's on Park Ave. for the benefit of Rockefeller University.

On Monday night,  Russell Simmons  announced that he was cutting ties with President Donald Trump, whom he once considered to be a friend. "He wrote the foreword to my first two books —  I know him  very well," Simmons told the  New York Daily News . He later added, "I was with him on his first date with Melania. We were friends for many years." "Not anymore," he said. "I'm sure he doesn't consider me a friend after some of the statements I've made." Simmons has been an outspoken critic of the president since he announced his candidacy in 2015, and Simmons admitted that the split between himself and Trump happened when he compared Trump to Kim Kardashian. "We haven't been friends since the day he announced and I said, 'I'd rather Kim Kardashian be President' so he called the office and that was the end of our friendship," he said.

P. Diddy is one election away from a direct line to the White House Puff Daddy  has a history of political involvement stemming back to his infamous “Vote or Die” campaign. He even hit the trail in support of President Obama back in 2008. Still, it’s hard to imagine someone who changes his name every two minutes (and thinks “Diddy” sounds cool) and thinks death is a reasonable response to someone freely choosing not to exercise their rights having a direct line to the White House. However, that just might be what happens if Donald J. Trump wins this election. “I always liked Donald’s style,” the man aka Sean Combs told the  New York Post , calling the Republican presidential nominee “a friend of mine.” “I do have a tie he gifted me. I wear it.” The interview came as he launched his new Sean John cologne at Macy’s 34th Street flagship store in Manhattan. Macy’s cut ties with Trump as his infamous “rapists and thieves” comments when he announced his ...

PASTOR CLAIMS KANYE IS 'BLACK MOSES SENT TO FREE BLACKS FROM DEMOCRATIC PLANTATION' – THE BUSINESS STANDARD NEWS By Rondell Pettus Since rapper Kanye West came out as a fan of President Donald Trump, he has gained a lot of new friends. But some Evangelicals are going over the top with their love of West. Conspiracy theory preacher Lance Wallnau branded West “the new Moses, who is going to lead black people off the godless Democratic plantation and back to the GOP.” He recently went on Facebook and blew away the cloud of demonic curses that were attacking Trump. Wallnau isn’t the only conspiracy theorist who shares these views, according to Right Wing Watch. Right-wing conspiracy theorist Liz Crokin also believes West is on a mission from God. LIZ ThesePeopleRSick @LizCrokin Kanye West is anointed by God just like President Trump. People who try to destroy him will be met with a curse too. The Kanye Curse! 5:11 PM - May 3, 2018 510...