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  • 2016-03-18 (xsd:date)
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  • Keith Richards Pulled a Knife on Donald Trump (en)
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  • In February 2015, concert promoter Michael Cohl relayed a story from 1989 involving a Rolling Stones concert, guitarist Keith Richards, a knife, and business magnate Donald Trump during a keynote address Cohl delivered at Pollstar Live!: Cohl told the audience that when he set out to find a venue for a worldwide pay-per-view concert that would serve as the finale to the Rolling Stones' Steel Wheels Tour in 1989, the only person who would agree to pay the expensive upfront site fee for the event was Donald Trump. Cohl claimed that band agreed to play at Atlantic City's Convention Center but that that they didn't want to be associated with the real estate mogul: When news outlets such as the Los Angeles Times, Mediate, and Uproxx reported on Cohl's keynote speech in March 2016, their articles focused on the claim that Rolling Stones guitarist Keith Richards had pulled out a knife at the event because he had learned Donald Trump was in the building. Some web sites distorted Cohl's version of events by publish it under misleading headlines such as Keith Richards Once Pulled a Knife on Donald Trump. Cohl's version of events, however, clearly states that the Rolling Stones guitarist was not in the same room as Donald Trump; that Richards pulled out a knife and threatened to fire Trump (who was elsewhere at the time) to compel him to leave the auditorium: While the story about Keith Richards, a Rolling Stones concert, a knife, and Donald Trump did come from a source that who was present at the Atlantic City Steel Wheels concert, contemporaneous accounts did report that Trump was in fact billed as a presenter of the pay-per-view shows. And while some reviewers criticized the concerts for being more about marketing than music, we found no record of anyone's reporting a confrontation between the band and Trump during the planning of the event (or in its immediate aftermath) — an especially puzzling absence given Trump's penchant for publicly deriding those whom he believes have dealt poorly with him. Also, although Donald Trump has been a public figure for decades, he was not nearly as well known nor as divisive a personality back in 1989. While contemporary readers may sympathize with Keith Richards' alleged actions if they had taken place today, why Richards or the Rolling Stones would have borne such animosity towards Donald Trump back in 1989 isn't clear. Finally, it should be noted that we were unable to unearth any version of this story between the time it allegedly occurred in December 1989 and when Cohl described it during his keynote address in February 2015 (the latter date being, coincidentally, around the time Trump began flirting with the idea of running for president in 2016). Regardless, the claim that Keith Richards pulled a knife on Donald Trump is certainly false, as it doesn't even appear in Cohl's possibly questionable version of events. (en)
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