Multiple Celebrities Report: Trump Gave Us Fake Diamond Cufflinks

If you want a pair of diamond cufflinks just like the ones Donald Trump hands out royally as gifts to celebrities, you’ll have to find the right store.

The 99 Cents Store.

According to a story in The New York Times revolving around Trump’s relationship with combative lawyer Roy Cohn, who worked with Senator Joe McCarthy, Trump gave Cohn a pair of fake diamond cufflinks as a reward for his work:

After one Cohn coup, Mr. Trump rewarded him with a pair of diamond-encrusted cuff links and buttons in a Bulgari box. And if Mr. Cohn did not always feel comfortable charging a friend for his services, Mr. Trump was hardly one to put up a fight.

“Roy said, ‘I’ll leave it to Donald to give me what he thinks is fair,'” Mr. Fraser recalled of one lengthy Trump tax case in particular. “But, of course, Donald didn’t give him anything.” […]

Mr. Fraser inherited all of Mr. Cohn’s possessions: the townhouse, his weekend place in Greenwich, Conn., his Rolls-Royce, his private plane and much more. But the Internal Revenue Service, collecting on Mr. Cohn’s tax debts, confiscated nearly everything.

He did get to keep the cuff links Mr. Trump had given Mr. Cohn. Years later, Mr. Fraser had them appraised; they were knockoffs, he said.

Just the other day actor Charlie Sheen was interviewed on a British talk show, and related he had been stiffed, too:

About five years ago I was at a dinner with my ex-wife Brooke and her family and this and that, and about halfway through, I saying to me, “I’m sorry that I wasn’t invited to your wedding,” this and that, “I’m sorry I can’t make your wedding.” I’m thinking, I didn’t invite you. So he says, “But I want to give you an early wedding gift as a gesture from me and Melania,” and she doesn’t say a word, she’s very sweet and very pretty but just sits there. So he says “These are platinum diamond Harry Winston” and he pulls off his cufflinks and he gives them to me.”

And so I’m like, oh, Gosh, Mr. Trump, you really shouldn’t do this.” He goes, “ No, no, it’s the least I can do, have a great marriage,” and all that. Little did he know . . .

So, smash cut to about six months later, I had some jewelry and I’m getting it appraised at the house, and she finished and was leaving, and I said, “Oh, there’s another couple of pieces that I have that I’m curious about. Would you mind appraising these?” She said, No, what are they?”

I explained the dinner and this and that and “these are from Donald Trump, Harry Winston, flawless D’s, platinum.” She took the loupe, spent about four seconds, and kind of recoiled from it — much like people do from Trump — and she says “in their finest moment, this is cheap pewter and bad zirconias.”

And they’re stamped “Trump.” And I just thought, what does this really say about the man, that he said, “Here’s a great wedding gift,” and it’s just a bag of dog shit?”

Of course, Trump’s miserliness may be due to the fact that he has less money than he claims, a theory much discussed and openly propounded by billionaire Mark Cuban:

Of course, Trump’s miserliness may be due to the fact that he has less money than he claims . . .

Given the repeated stories of Trump’s false generosity, The Weekly Standard has a cogent and amusing question:

Did Trump really pull his cheapskate fake jewelry stunt only twice in his life? That’s hard to believe. If you, or a celebrity you know, has received a pair of fake diamond-encrusted cufflinks from Donald J. Trump, please let us know by emailing editor[at]weeklystandard.com.