According to Morris, Steve climbed the building because he wanted to have a “personal meeting” with the Republican presidential nominee, but he had no intentions of hurting the controversial businessman. He also lives there.
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A stuntman tried to scale Trump’s crib in Manhattan using suction cups, but after a long live-streamed climb, he was hauled in by the NYPD on the 21st floor. He tells him that his is an independent researcher who “seeking a private audience with you to discuss an important matter”. The reason I climbed your tower is to get your attention. “If I had sought this via conventional means, I would be much less likely to have success because you are a busy man with many responsibilities”.
Trump Organization executive vice president Michael Cohen told the New York Post in a statement: “This man performed a ridiculous and unsafe stunt”.
Around 6.35pm EDT (11.35pm BST), police were finally able to pull the man head first into the building after knocking out a window pane on the 21st floor. While climbing, the man could be seen smiling and continuing to clean the glass and apply his suction cups as he made his slow climb up the tower. “I guarantee that it’s in your interest to honor this request”, he says. Believe me my goal was not significant I would not risk my life pursuing it.
At a press conference on Wednesday evening, NYPD officials said that the climber is undergoing psychiatric evaluation at Bellevue Hospital.
Trump built Trump Tower on 721 Fifth Avenue in 1983, as the what was then the tallest glass building in Manhattan and one of the most recognizable skyscrapers in the world.
The New York Police Department said on Twitter that the department’s special operations division and emergency crews had responded at Trump Tower’s address to the man climbing the building. I’m 100 percent certain the NYPD had better things to do.
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Several witnesses confirmed that the man started to climb the tower on the fifth floor, an area open to the public. But in a statement to press, Trump Organization official Michael Cohen called the climb “a ridiculous and risky stunt”.
