Dan Scavino Jr.
July 1995 Camera with flash
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In 1995 it was much cheaper to drive Mr. Trump’s car, check out the gas prices. (Bill Ingram / The Palm Beach Post)
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BILL INGRAM | BINGRAM@PBPOST.COM | 3:16 pm EST January 11, 2018
I have covered plenty of U.S. Presidents in my 35-year career as a photojournalist. Since the days of Ronald Reagan, I’ve captured the Commander in Chief in moments from the steps of Air Force One to the local putting greens.
These intersections of my job and theirs is typically scripted: They show up in town and, handed the assignment, I seek a perch from which to take a picture.
But I was doing one of the more mundane parts of my job, hunting for a slice-of-life photo for the next day’s paper, when I crossed paths with the man who would become the nation’s 45th president.
It was a sticky Monday morning in July 1995, when I pulled out of The Palm Beach Post parking lot and headed south on Dixie Highway.
I was in a Toyota Tercel that had outlived its air-conditioning and ahead of me was a factory-fresh Lemans blue Lamborghini Diablo Roadster.
Eager to pass the slow moving sports car worth some 10 times my ride, I pulled ahead only to realize my photo hunt could be over with the man seated behind the Lamborghini’s wheel: Palm Beach part-timer Donald Trump.
What was his glamorous destination?
I followed him.
His first stop? The Mobil gas station at the corner of Forest Hill Boulevard and Dixie.
Before my eyes an international business tycoon renown for ‘The Art of the Deal’ was about to execute his next purchase: gas.
I approached him, identifying myself as a Palm Beach Post photographer, and asked permission to take his picture.
His polite reply: No problem, but I bet this will end up in the tabloids.
It appeared in the July 4, 1995 edition of The Palm Beach Post.
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Originally Published 12:01 am EDT March 23, 2017
Updated 3:16 pm EST January 11, 2018
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