For three decades, Donald Trump has wanted to build the tallest tower in Europe. He's wished to create a massive, imposing building that would be an icon of the Trump empire — the Trump World Tower Moscow.

But he's kept coming up short, failing his first attempt, in 1987, his second attempt, in 1996, his third attempt, in 2005, and his fourth attempt, in 2013, according to BuzzFeed News.

His children have reportedly tried, too. BuzzFeed News reported that Donald Trump Jr. and Ivanka Trump took a tour of the Kremlin in 2006, and the now-president’s daughter allegedly spun around in Russian President Vladimir Putin’s chair, according to Felix Sater, who reportedly helped negotiate deals for Trump and helped arrange the visit.

“Are you crazy?” one of the guards asked at the time, according to Sater's recollection to BuzzFeed News, after Ivanka asked if she could sit in the chair.

“I said, ‘What is she going to do, steal a pen?’” Sater told BuzzFeed News. “He let us in. She sat behind the desk, spun in the chair twice, and that was that.”

But even spinning around in Putin’s chair didn’t result in a Trump World Tower Moscow. That deal failed too. Yahoo News reported on May 16 that, with Sater’s help, Trump’s lawyer, Michael Cohen, picked up the project again in 2015. Based on text messages and emails between Sater and Cohen that Yahoo News obtained, they reportedly continued attempting to negotiate a Trump World Tower Moscow well into the 2016 presidential election, up until Trump secured the GOP presidential nomination.

The New York Times first reported in August 2017 that emails prove Sater and Cohen were working with Putin on the project — all while Trump was running for president of the United States.

“I will get Putin on this program and we will get Donald elected,” Sater wrote in one email.

Cohen and his attorneys did not return comment to Yahoo News, but Sater described it to the news outlet as a business transaction.

“I was trying to build the tallest tower in Europe. For me, it was a business transaction,” Sater told the site. “I have fully cooperated with every investigation and every committee. I have provided absolutely everything — voluntarily and not under subpoena — that was asked of me and will continue to willingly cooperate. All my communications show I was tenaciously trying to get a super tall tower built and nothing else.”

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