Wynn on tape

The Wall Street Journal provided audio recordings of Steve Wynn addressing employees:

“We live in a soundbite world. We live in a world where a partial truth or something that sounds sensational is on everybody’s lips every day in a 24-hour news cycle, whatever sells, whatever gets the cable audience up a little higher. …

“In corporations, it’s every man for himself. In a family, people look after each other. And they take care of each other and they take care of the people they serve.

“What’s magic about this family is you. Oh, my name’s on the sign all right. But it’s been you. We managed to create this. And the result of that family culture is spectacular. And nothing in the short-term moment can change that, and I don’t want any one of you to feel that that could happen. …

“This is the time when everybody’s talking about gender disadvantage, gender advantage, and there’s a whole popular thing today that maybe women are not being treated right or women haven’t been given the same opportunity as men. And, of course, they should be.…

“And there’s never been a gender discrimination problem here. And that’s the thing you can be proud of because the company history stands for that.”

Wynn also talked about meeting with President Donald Trump shortly before he was inaugurated in January 2017. The Washington Post had published a video and article about an appearance Trump made on “Access Hollywood” during the campaign.

“I got a call from the president-elect. This is two nights before he’s president officially. We stopped at the Trump Hotel, where he was having a midnight or late supper. We went up to the restaurant on the second floor, and he was sitting there with his back against the wall. …

“I looked at him and said, ‘It’s unbelievable; you pulled this off.

You risked everything.’ He said, ‘If I knew it was going to be this tough, I wouldn’t have done it.’ He said,

‘It was so scary. When those tapes came up, I almost died.’

“I know the feeling.”