Trump’s picky at own raffle
SANTA’S NAUGHTY/NICE list is nothing compared to Donald Trump’s.
Some of Trump’s employees who worked hard all year are richly rewarded — and those who didn’t live up to The Donald’s expectations got zilch. The Donald himself (below) confirmed to Confidenti@l that last week, he threw his annual staff holiday party at Trump Tower, where he held a gift raffle filled with major goodies.
“Lucky winners go home with flat-screen TVs, $5,000 checks or iPads,” one wellplaced insider tells us. “He personally picks a name and if the person he picks doesn’t deserve that particular gift, he puts the name back in the drawing and picks a new name. Some people go home with nothing.”
Trump confirmed that he likes to “richly reward” staffers who have worked so hard for him all year long.
“They’re a great group of people and deserve to be rewarded for terrific service,” he told us Monday.
Meanwhile, on the political front, we hear Trump — who is mulling running for New York governor — had underlings organize a top-secret internal team to gather info on who votes in the various neighborhoods throughout New York, a source who spoke with one team member tells us.
“He had a team put together paperwork for him about voter preferences in various New York towns,” says our insider.
Trump says although he wasn’t directly involved with putting a team together, there are a lot of people who may be doing work in order to convince him to run on a Republican ticket.
The real estate magnate, who tells us running in 2014 really “is a possibility,” says, “I’ll make a decision sometime in January.”
The big D is set to meet with more than 30 state Republicans the second week of January as he mulls the idea of a Republican run against Gov. Cuomo. The meeting is a followup to a Dec. 4 powwow at his office with 11 GOPers urging him to run. But public service may be a long shot for the “Apprentice” star.
Based on his past attempts at publicity for his Trump brand, he may find it hard to get potential voters to take him seriously, as he often is accused of garnering attention for projects like “Celebrity Apprentice” and the Miss Universe Pageant.