Donald J Trump

When Donald Trump came to Rancho Palos Verdes six years ago with plans for a world-class golf course, he was welcomed with open arms. Then came the dispute with the city over his plan to name a street after himself. And then came the battle with neighbors over his 12-foot-tall ficus trees. Now the mogul is suing the small town, and suing big. He wants $100 million from a city with an annual budget just shy of $20 million.

Donald Trump has called Barbara Walters a liar and Rosie O'Donnell a loser. On Wednesday, they both fired back. "Well, he's at it again," said O'Donnell, referring to a letter written to her by Trump that said Walters had told him that working with O'Donnell on ABC's "The View" is like "living in hell." "That poor, pathetic man," said Walters to whoops of approval from the studio audience.

Billionaire Donald Trump gave $10,000 to Gov. Arnold Schwarzenegger to help pay off his campaign debts, a little more than a month after the governor guest-starred on Trump's TV show "The Apprentice: Los Angeles," campaign filings show. In an episode that aired March 18, Schwarzenegger hosted five of the show's contestants in his private conference room at the state Capitol. The governor denies any link between the donation and the TV appearance, but at least one watchdog group is skeptical.

Donald Trump -- as in Trump Tower, Trump Entertainment and Trump Organization -- announced Wednesday that he's purchased a bankrupt golf course in Fresno -- as in Fresno, Calif. Culminating weeks of sometimes public, on-again, off-again negotiations, "The Donald" said he'd pay $40 million for the Running Horse golf course. Its previous developers completed only two holes before they were swamped by financial problems.

Donald Trump knows the art of the deal. But he won't be making one for his three casinos here. The company that bears the flamboyant real estate mogul's name had been up for sale for several months. But Trump Entertainment Resorts Inc. announced Monday that it was unlikely to be sold, sending shares of the company plummeting. The company said its board believed that none of the "indications of interest" met its expectations.

Donald Trump canceled a $30-million agreement to buy 418 acres, including a partially completed golf course and 780 home lots, at the Running Horse Golf and Country Club in Fresno.

Donald Trump thought that some homes overlooking his Rancho Palos Verdes golf course were so unsightly that he ordered them hidden from view with a row of ficus plants. Trump may know real estate, but he doesn't know Rancho Palos Verdes law, according to city leaders. They say that the vegetation, some of which is 12 feet tall, violates a city code that protects residents' ocean views.

The chilly, wind-whipped dunes and grasslands of the Scottish coast may have been the birthplace of golf, but that hasn't been much help to Donald Trump and his plans to create what he says will be the world's best golf course here. Don't even start with the fact that the old Menie estate is said to be haunted by someone called the Green Lady.

For want of a vacuum cleaner, the guest room carpets at Trump Plaza Hotel & Casino stayed dirty. For want of a dollar, Trump Taj Mahal couldn't add a hotel tower like its competitors did. For want of a little novelty, slot players at Trump Marina took their coin cups next door to the Borgata Hotel Casino & Spa. But luck is turning for Donald Trump's casino company, which emerged from Bankruptcy Court protection last spring and is aggressively trying to regain lost ground.

Who wants to be a millionaire? Not Donald Trump. The real estate mogul and TV star said Tuesday that he was suing an author who wrote that Trump was not a billionaire and instead pegged his net worth at no more than $250 million.