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Donald Trump: “The marble job was going to cost $59 million.”

Featuring: Donald Trump, Republican | President of the United States | National

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President Trump Attends the State Department Kennedy Center Honors Medal Presentation Dinner

Published | Video Starts at 10:00

You grind it down just a hundredth of an inch, you have a brand new slab of marble and you've saved a little money, to put it mildly, like millions. The marble job was going to cost $59 million. They thought we had to take all the marble off the building and replace the marble with new marble. It was going to cost 59 to. (10:00–10:04)

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Asserts that the initial cost estimate for the marble renovation was $59 million.

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