Donald Trump hits the red carpet with Miss Venezuela and Miss Universe 2013 Gabriela Isler after the 2013 Miss Universe Pageant in Moscow on Nov. 9, 2013. "They love what he’s doing. He developed a luxury housing community outside of Moscow that features a manmade beach waterfall, and housing for his residents’ hundreds of bodyguards. | GettyOn June 18, 2013, Donald Trump had some exciting news: He would soon be whisking dozens of the world’s most beautiful women to Russia.“The Miss Universe Pageant will be broadcast live from MOSCOW, RUSSIA on November 9th,” Trump tweeted that day, referring to the beauty pageant he owned at the time. Wouldn’t it be nice if we actually got along with somebody?”Critics ridiculed the idea that Trump gleaned any real understanding of Russia from hosting a beauty pageant there. But he clearly sought the Russian president’s favor.
Certainly, Former Senior Editor of Media & Culture at IBT. Donald Trump poses on the Miss Universe 2013 red carpet with Aras Agalarov (right), a billionaire Russian real estate mogul with ties to Russian President Vladimir Putin, and Agalarov’s son, Emin (left), a dance-pop singer with ambitions to international stardom and who got Trump to appear in one of his music videos. But the deeper story of how he brought the Miss Universe pageant to Moscow — a classic Trumpian tale of money, power and pulchritude — does shed fresh light on the business interests and personal contacts that have helped to shape his views about the country. And if CBS executives thought picking up the pageant telecast was a worthwhile public relations risk, they might have jumped in this summer after NBC refused to air Miss USA.The cable network Reelz picked up the broadcast rights to the 2015 Miss USA pageant after NBC and Univision dropped it, but Reelz CEO Stan E. Hubbard has said that the deal was a one-time thing.“Our agreement for the organization and the pageant was for one event,” If all else fails, maybe Trump will create his own network. Talent and marketing agency WME/IMG has acquired The Miss Universe Organization for an undisclosed amount from Donald Trump, a move that comes just … (Photo by Angela Weiss/Getty Images)It's easy to imagine that NBC let the pageant go for a reasonable price: The Miss Universe and Miss USA telecasts typically perform reasonably wellThough it will likely be easier without Trump attached, WME/IMG now carries the daunting challenge of finding a broadcaster for the pageants, which could prove particularly difficult given the recent controversy surrounding them.ABC is the home of the Miss America pageant, making the network very unlikely -- if not contractually prohibited -- from acquiring Miss Universe/USA. I’m really tired of you. Around the same time, Edward Snowden landed in Moscow, fleeing U.S. authorities after leaking some of America’s most sensitive intelligence secrets.Although Trump suggested that Snowden should be executed — “you know what we used to do to traitors, right?” he asked a Fox News host last July — the anti-gay law cast the darker shadow over the pageant. In 2013 Emin filmed the video for his single “Amor,” in which the young singer pursues Miss Universe 2012, Olivia Culpo, through darkened city streets with a flashlight. “[I]f so, will he become my new best friend?”Now that he’s headed for the Republican presidential nomination, Trump talks often about establishing warmer relations with Vladimir Putin. Donald Trump has a solution to the Miss Universe crown controversy: Share the wealth! “The global reach of The Miss Universe Organization and the content opportunities presented by the pageants make this a strong, strategic addition to our portfolio.” In 2008, his son Donald Jr. visited Moscow to explore licensing the Trump name to properties there, according to the Russian newspaper Kommersant. And if you don’t have the heart, you can’t have the great beauty.” In 1987, he visited Moscow and St. Petersburg at the invitation of the Soviet ambassador to the U.S., though he doubted the standards of Soviet construction firms and never followed through. “Moscow right now in the world is a very, very important place,” he said. U.S. MUST BE VERY SMART AND VERY STRATEGIC.”He thanked the Agalarovs specifically: “I had a great weekend with you and your family … TRUMP TOWER-MOSCOW is next.”There is no evidence that such talk led anywhere, however — perhaps because Trump soon turned his attention to his run for the White House.But the Agalarovs have not forgotten their powerful American friend. The paper also reported that, a few years earlier, Trump had considered aiding the reconstruction of the city’s Moskva and Rossiya hotels.Joining Trump’s November 2013 meeting with the Agalarovs were Alex Sapir and Rotem Rosen, a pair of New York-based Russian developers who helped to develop the Trump Soho hotel and condominium project in Manhattan.
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