A recording obtained by The Washington Post captures what New York reporters and editors who covered Trump’s early career experienced in the 1970s, ’80s and ’90s: calls from Trump’s Manhattan office that resulted in conversations with “John Miller” or “John Barron” — public-relations men who sound precisely like Trump himself — who indeed are Trump, masquerading as an unusually helpful and boastful advocate for himself, according to the journalists and several of Trump’s top aides.

This is terrifying…

http://www.nbcnews.com/politics/2016-election/trump-denies-posing-publicist-1991-interview-n573766

On the TODAY show Friday, Trump denied ever posing as his own publicist. But in a court case in 1990, Trump testified under oath, “I believe on occasion I used that [John Barron] name.” And a July 13, 1990 Newsday article states: “At one point, Trump, who spends millions of dollars advertising his name, acknowledged that he has used an alias, ‘John Baron.’ ‘I believe on occasion I used that name,’ Trump said, not elaborating.”
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The Post reported that a New York Daily News gossip columnist claims Trump also pretended to be an “anonymous tipster” who said the businessman had been spotted with models. John Barron called New York tabloids enough it became a recurring joke to editors, according to the report.