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rain, and the malfunctions. In fact, they sang happy birthday to
Melania while they were waiting for me to show up. When I
finally arrived, someone gave the heads-up that “Mr. Trump has
entered the building”—shades of the days of Elvis. I had a good
laugh, and we all had a day to be remembered. The point is, even
big goofs can (and often do) work out for the best.

A WARDROBE MALFUNCTION

Another time I was scheduled to speak in Las Vegas in front of
approximately 10,000 people, and I flew in from California with
about half an hour to spare before going on. Since I had been
traveling, I asked a young woman who was the backstage coordi-
nator to have my jacket pressed. So she took my jacket, and I
waited in the green room chatting with visitors and with Keith,
my bodyguard. When it was time to go on, I started looking for
my jacket. It was nowhere to be found. I had 10,000 people wait-
ing for me and no jacket.
The young woman appeared and told us she’d sent my jacket
out to a nearby hotel to get pressed, and it wasn’t back yet. We
were astonished—with a half hour to go before stage time, no
one sends a jacket out to be pressed. We thought she’d have it
steamed or pressed on the premises, but she was obviously new at
this job. I wasn’t happy about it, but what could I do? I borrowed
Keith’s jacket, even though Keith is a bit larger than I am. It had
to suffice. I was a few minutes late getting to the stage, but the
crowd didn’t seem to mind too much. I told them about what had
happened backstage, and apologized for a jacket that neither fit
nor matched my suit. They didn’t seem to mind that either. The
speech went well despite the backstage commotion, and they
seemed to enjoy the spontaneity that was created by someone’s

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