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See The NYC Skyline According To Donald Trump
A hand-drawn sketch — which features Trump Tower dominating the skyline — will be auctioned off for at least $9,000.

MIDTOWN MANHATTAN, NY — The New York City skyline is the stuff of legend. With iconic structures such as the Empire State Building, Chrysler Building and Woolworth Building the city is home to towers that were once the worlds tallest.
But if you ask President Donald Trump, the skyline might as well just be a bunch of boxes, triangles and majestic Trump Tower rising above them all.
A sketch Trump drew of New York City's skyline in 2005 is set to hit the auction block this week at a starting bid of $9,000, and it could be the greatest physical documentation of Trump's ego. In the Trumpified skyline, New York City is reduced to five generic-looking buildings centered around a building that resembles the tiered facade of Trump Tower.
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To cap it off, Trump signed the picture in golden marker.
Standing at 664-feet-high, Trump Tower on Fifth Avenue is actually the 64th tallest building in New York City, the Washington Post reported. It's not the first time Trump has fudged the facts to exaggerate the size of his ebony tower. In 1979, as Trump was preparing to build the tower, he asked a model maker to cut down the nearby General Motors building so it didn't dwarf his project, theNew York Times reported in 2016.
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Los Angeles-based auction house Nate D. Sanders Auctions will conduct the picture's sale. The sketch was originally drawn by Trump to support a charity fundraiser by shipping company Pitney Bowes, according to the auction house. Pitney Bowes was selling off artwork by celebrities such as Trump, Regis Philbin, Jennifer Garner and Ben Affleck and donating the proceeds to organizations promoting literacy.
If you're interested in purchasing Trump's artwork, you can submit a bid on the Nate D. Sanders Auctions website.
Photo courtesy Nate D. Sanders Auctions
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