Dead men may tell no tales. But Donald Trump has no problem telling tales about dead men. In the past two months, Trump has repeatedly name checked Bob Tisch who passed away in 2005. The message is always the same.

“Bob Tisch of Loews, friend of mine, great guy. Wonderful man….” Trump said at a Sept. 24 Trump Tower press conference. “Bob Tisch used to tell me that he thinks San Francisco is the greatest city in the country. He passed away quite a while ago, but... San Francisco probably was.”

The first time I heard Trump mention Tisch’s love for San Francisco, I thought, “That’s weird.” The second time, I thought, “That’s wrong.” And the third time, I thought, “I should say something.”

See, I knew Bob Tisch. I worked for Bob Tisch. Bob Tisch did not think San Francisco was “the greatest city in the country.” Bob Tisch was Mr. New York.

The former Loews Corporation President and COO Preston Robert “Bob” Tisch was born and raised in Brooklyn. He later built an empire in hotels, cigarettes, watches and insurance which boasted a market cap of over $17 billion in 2005 when Tisch died at the age of 79 in Manhattan.

For 19 years, Tisch chaired The NYC Convention & Visitors Bureau. He was a proud co-owner of the New York Giants (not the 49ers). With his brother Laurence Tisch, he endowed the Tisch School of the Arts and served as a Trustee of NYU (not SFU). He invented the power breakfast at the Loews-owned Regency Hotel on Park Avenue where he lived with his wife Joan. And it was at the Regency hotel in the early seventies that Tisch met a group of businessmen, including real estate magnate Lew Rudin, to launch the Association for a Better New........

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