Donald Trump and The Elephant Hunt

This is my story of Donald Tump and the Elephant Hunt.  Sounds kind of like a Disney movie dosen’t it?   Let me tell you some of the details of my trip to New York.  It was quite a day.  I was invited to go to New York for a lunch meeting with Donald Trump for something called an” Elephant Hunt”.   Mr. Trump has always been a strong advocate of network marketing and so now that he has his own network marketing company he decided to bring in some of the people who have had success in network marketing and Internet marketing.   The plan is to have several of these Elephant Hunts in the future, but this was the first.  Each meeting will have a limited number of “elephants” to keep it more intimate.  I was honored to be included in the first meeting.

I actually had to think for a while about whether or not I would go.  But I decide I could not turn down the opportunity to have lunch with 30 or so successful people.    And I definitely made the right decision.  It was a great trip. 

It started to look like the snow would keep me away but the flights where only slightly delayed from Louisville.  As we arrived at the airport there where snow plows all over the runways.  I left pretty close to “on time” from Louisville.  The rest of the day was plagued with delays and I finally arrived at my hotel in New York at 2am.  (Oh great ….now I’ll have black circles under my eyes:) 

The next morning I met with Rick Walsh and Sunil Wadhwa who are the top two producers in The Trump Network.   Great Guys!!!  We rode together to the hotel where the presentation would begin.  I did not see anyone I knew.  That was sort of weird.  The meeting was very informative.  We heard from the founders, Mr. Trump’s personal assistant and his attorney. 

Then it was time to go over to the Trump Grill in the lower level of the Trump Tower, at the bottom of the Golden Waterfall.  There was a private room reserved for our group.  I sat at a table with several very interesting people.  Authors and Networkers. 

The person that I found myself drawn to was Cameron Johnson.  He sold his first business at the age of nine and made his first million dollars before graduating from high school.   All of this was very impressive but the thing that struck me was what a nice person he is.   The word that comes to mind is “genuine”.  

When Mr. Trump arrived at our meeting the crowd went wild.   As luck would have it he stood right beside me as he addressed the group.  Literally shoulder to shoulder.   Many people will say “big deal…he’s just a person like you or me…nothing special about him”.    And while that is true the difference that I see in people like Donald Trump and Cameron Johnson is that they took their dreams seriously.  They did not just make a list of goals ….they put forth the effort to make it happen.   I like that!  I think that is special. 

Cameron told me a story of how when he was eight years old he wrote a note to Donald Trump on notebook paper about how his family was coming to New York to stay at the Plaza and how he really wanted to see the room at the Plaza Hotel where “Home Alone 2” was filmed.   He mailed it without telling his parents.  When they arrived at the hotel the reservationist said “you must be Cameron…we’ve been expecting you”.  Mr. Trump had arranged for Cameron and his family to stay in the Penthouse Suite where the movie had been filmed.  Mr. Trump was out of town but took the time to call an eight year old boy that he did not know, to see if they were settled into their room.  He also arranged for a special trip to FAO Schwartz. 

Donald Trump.   Some people love him and some can’t stand him.  No one can deny that he has done amazing things and kept on pushing higher even when things looked bad.    But the most impressive thing I have heard about Donald Trump is the story above that Cameron told me.  He was not too busy to listen to the dream of an eight year old boy and make it happen.    That is someone who not only took  his own dreams seriously, but, also the dreams of others.   That is a special person.

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