Trump's Deal-Making Confidence, From 1989 to Now

UNITED STATES - MAY 04: Donald Trump at news conference at the GM Building, where CBS announced that Bryant Gumbel will be the host of its new morning news program, 'This Morning.'

Trump makes many people feel a lot of things these days, but for New Yorkers there will always be one extra ingredient: nostalgia.

Dean Mullaney, editor, publisher, designer, and author of Rotten to the Core Trading Cards: The Best and Worst of New York City's Politics (Eclipse Enterprises, 1989), looked at the rise of the brash real-estate tycoon, from his humble roots in Queens to his gleaming Trump Tower on the West Side.

Plus WNYC's economic development reporter Janet Babin spoke about the deal-making that made Donald Trump so famous, and WNYC's Kurt Andersen, writer and host of Studio 360, talked about his experience writing about Trump.

Have a look at a few of the trading cards from Mullaney's set, published in 1989. Here's the Trump card, front and back (read the text!):

You may also recognize this at-the-time mayoral candidate: