
Yesterday, the Los Angeles restaurant world—nay, the entire world—was stunned by Derober.com's report that billionaire real estate developer/reality TV personality/premium-steak magnate Donald Trump, looking to reward the attentive service of a couple of pasta dishes and eclipse the onetime largesse of comparatively stingy superproducer Jerry Bruckheimer, left a $10,000 gratuity for a lucky Buffalo Club waiter, a move that briefly established the mogul as The Greatest and Most Generous Tipper in the World. Today, Trump went into full denial mode, telling Page Six that he's wasn't even in California on the day of the alleged tipping, and that he's the victim of a vicious hoax he believes was perpetrated by the attention-craving Santa Monica eatery:
"This was done by the stupid restaurant to get publicity," he said. ". . . It's not my signature."
We're inclined to take The Donald at his word, as it should be a fairly simple matter to prove his Monday night whereabouts should this matter not die with the public denial of these spurious accusations of excessive generosity. Still, for those who'd like to come to their own conclusions on this matter and either nurture the idea that Trump is modestly deflecting unwanted praise or confirm his victimhood, we offer the above signature comparison; somewhere between the "Donald J. Trump" embossed on his business card and the one allegedly scribbled (or Photoshopped) onto that Buffalo Club receipt surely lies the truth.
[Image: Derober (receipt)/Gallery of History (business card)]
- NOT OUR DONALD [Page Six]
- Previously: Donald Trump And The $10,000 Tip [Defamer]









Comments
The devious counterfeiter, Snotald Dump, strikes agaiin.
Now that you say it, that receipt looks more like it says "Anals Trump." Which makes a lot more sense.
Old Anals! That old dog. Black sheep of the Trump family. Went into PR on behalf of stupid restaurants. Not successful at all. He was the middle child.
Let me get this straight -- he's objecting to a story that makes him seem benign and generous? Don't Hollywood people pay for that kind of "false rumor"? Admittedly, the story would have been more effective if the restaurant had been a Denny's.
Doooonnallld.....I am the ghoooooost of Christmas paaaaaassst....
His plane certainly wasn't in LA on that date:
[flightaware.com]
He's objecting because everyone who waits on him will now expect a $10k tip. And supposedly rich people don't stay rich by handing out gratuities like that.
Actually the signature reads Dinali Sirimf.
looks like Gnarls Smurf to me but what do I know?
@The Dewd: LMAO , really , people are staring, better go...
Maybe I am just not used to the classy touches exhibited by fancy LA restaurants, stuck here in the Rendezvous Barbecue territory of Memphis, but what kind of eatery has a microsoft clip art portrait of the dollar sign embellishing its receipts?
And are we sure it wasn't Donna Summer?
And nothing about "Fat Rosie O'Donnell" being somehow responsible for Donald's latest controversy because, well, because she's fat? I might bring the striking writers a box of day-olds myself.
Considering that the prize for an entire season of humiliating yourself on "The Apprentice" is a quarter of what you can get spending 40 minutes with Howie Mandel's Briefcase Beauties, I think the "fakes" have it.
How many m's are there in "Trump"? Six?
@Bufflekins: It's because he's Mm Mm Good!
No, wait, that's soup.
Darn mainstream media... and just when "The Donald" was almost cool.
I'm calling B.S. on Donald's denial. The Buffalo Club is high-end enough that they aren't going to invite a felony simply to get a few headlines.
DT's just trying to dodge pissed-off waiters that he screws at the 21 Club et al on a regular basis in NYC.
@VictorWard: Rendezvous might be a rib joint in a basement off an alley, and they might not use that classy clip art on their checks, but it's one fine establishment.
That was a nice tip. It's sad that it was rewarded by publicizing it through showing the receipt...so the tipper's signature gets spread all over the internets.
@silvarga: How is this sad? His signature is already on his frigging business card.
@Beppo: Besides, you'd have to get that hairdon't to properly forge a fake ID and who in their right mind would want that?
This is like a bad-guy pro-wrestler breaking character, now he's gotta compensate.
I'm just frightened that there is the possibility of a Trump doppelganger out there, giving hope to service employees in pretentious steakhouses...
@Whiteboyfunfark:
"...and who in their right mind would want that?"
I'm going to assume your question is rhetorical, as contemplating a response would surely induce the kind of mind-fuck I always avoid on Mondays.
@Beppo: Never mind his business cards, the dude signs his steaks. This is one guy who is not afraid of identity theft. Presumably because no-one would want to be him.
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