Tilman Fertitta, a Texan-Sicilian businessman for the US Embassy in Italy | EUROtoday

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As an envoy in Italy Donald Trump has not chosen a profession diplomat, however a billionaire businessman who likes to be within the highlight – in sport as in tv actuality exhibits – and who in lots of respects resembles the identical American president.

Tilman J. Fertitta “He is a man who takes care of the Sodo and knows how to get what he wants”, repeated Trump to the visitor mates of his Mar-A-Lago property in Florida, instantly proposing him for the American embassy in Rome. In the Senate of Washington – After the designation – Fertitta defined that the three principal points to be addressed with the Italian authorities will concern US oil purchases, Italy’s relations with China and army spending in NATO. “I can’t wait to do more business and bring the commercial gap from 45 billion dollars to much less,” he stated with regards to the industrial deficit, in {dollars}, of the United States with Italy: an obsession, that of the import-export deficit that led the Trump administration to set off the conflict of the duties towards the world.

Texan of Galveston, 68, descendant of a Sicilian household, of Cefalù, emigrated to the United States on the finish of the nineteenth century, two weddings and 4 kids, fertitta just isn’t a primary hour Trumpian, however has financed the republican marketing campaign with conviction and has conquered the tycoon with “a mixture of frankness, cunning and complacency”, in response to some sources.

Trump was struck by the story of Self Made Man who introduced fertitta to success ranging from the Galveston household restaurant, and with out finishing his research: for Forbes Fertitta it’s as we speak “the richest restaurateur”, with an estimated heritage in 10.7 billion {dollars}. It has lots of of eating places and the luxurious resort chain, Landry’s. It has not too long ago develop into the primary shareholder in accommodations and casinos of Wynn Resorts. But he’s additionally the proprietor of the Houston Rockets NBA basketball staff, and he was the star of the TV program Billion Dollar Buyer.

“I am grateful to President Trump for the trust he gave me,” he stated in Rome thanking President Sergio Mattarella, and promising “even stronger links between the United States and Italy”.