For three days Donald Trump sat seething in a New York courtroom as prosecutors set out to dismantle the aura he has constructed for more than 40 years, as a self-made master of the business world.

Nothing symbolized that image more powerfully than the building that the former president left each morning to travel across Manhattan to his fraud trial. From upstart property tycoon to reality TV star to president, Trump Tower has served as the backdrop to his greatest triumphs.