Cohen's idea was ultimately not pursued, with the candidate instead opting for a setup with American flags that had a more presidential feel.
Cohen is serving a three-year prison sentence for crimes including tax evasion and arranging payments during the 2016 election to women who allegedly had affairs with Trump, among them adult film star Stormy Daniels. Cohen pleaded guilty to eight felonies in August and directly implicated Trump in the campaign finance law violations.
Though Trump's 2016 campaign team avoided bringing real elephants and women in bikinis, the future president's kickoff still had something of an amateur feel to it. Attorney Michael Cohen arrives at Trump Tower for meetings with President-elect Donald Trump on December 16, 2016, in New York. Cohen reportedly pushed for women in bikinis and real elephants to be part of Trump's presidential campaign launch in 2015.Trump made changes to his printed large font speech with black and red Sharpie markers up until just over a half-hour before riding a golden elevator down to the stage, according to Nunberg.
"There's a way to do this that looks serious, and riding a golden escalator in your own Manhattan skyscraper to a crowd that appeared to be composed of largely confused tourists is not that way," Steel toldBut Trump's insistence on the elevator ride down and other details against the suggestions of his advisers proved to play out well. He became, and stayed a leading Republican contender, eventually winning the nomination and the presidency.
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