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In this week’s Page Six Magazine – his family defined the modern age of over-the-top New York City excess. But when Donald Trump Jr. and his wife, Vanessa, do the holidays in their own home, it’s a cozy affair full of laughter and mischief. The pair celebrate the season with Page Six Magazine and dish about how the Donald spends December 25, their least favorite family traditions and what will be under the tree this year.

Donald Jr. on his Christmases as a child:

“When I was little, as unconventional as my family is, I don’t know that our Christmas was that different other than [the fact] that we were on the top of Trump Tower. We’d run downstairs and jump into our parents’ bed, just like everyone else. Then we’d go over to our grandparents’ place in Queens and do lunch.”

Donald Jr. on how his father, Donald Trump, likes to celebrate Christmas:

“He’s a blue-collar guy with a big balance sheet. He wants a burger, he wants to eat his turkey and bacon—he doesn’t want to have soufflés. He grew up in Queens and while he may have the fancier side of his life, when it comes down to it, he just wants to watch football on the holidays.”

Donald Jr. on re-gifting presents:

“Look, I’ve been re-gifted presents that I’ve given my family. You know, they’re like, ‘Oh, great, thanks!’ and then you end up getting it back the next year. It’s like, ‘You know I gave you this to you last year right?’ And they’re like, ‘No, it’s a different one!’”

Donald Jr. on his desire to instill charity in his children:

“Vanessa and I both grew up with the understanding that we were incredibly fortunate to be in the positions that we were in. I think we’ve got to try to instill that in the generations to come.”

For more on Donald Trump Jr. and his family, check out this week’s issue of Page Six Magazine, free inside the Sunday edition of the New York Post and online on Monday at www.pagesixmag.com.

The Donald has been quietly buying up parcels of land around the Beverly Hills Hotel. So far, he owns four properties totaling four acres and is eyeing a fifth - a stunning 1950s home owned by Niels Kantor, who runs a noted Melrose Avenue art gallery, an insider tells us. Trump had no comment, but our source says the developer has no plans for the sites as yet. “He’s just buying because he likes owning great land and the prices are good,” the spy said.

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Arthur “Pinch” Sulzberger is being dragged kicking and screaming into the messy defamation lawsuit Donald Trump has filed against New York Times Sunday business editor Timothy O’Brien.

A Manhattan judge has ordered the baby-faced publisher to submit to a deposition by Trump’s lawyers, who believe he’ll bolster their case that O’Brien slimed Trump in “TrumpNation: The Art of Being The Donald.” In his 2005 book, O’Brien asserted Trump was worth just $150 million to $250 million. Trump insists he’s worth billions and says O’Brien hurt his reputation.

Sulzberger, who fought the deposition, will now have to discuss his chats with O’Brien about Trump. In one e-mail exchange, first reported in the Philadelphia Inquirer, Sulzberger praises the book, and the author responds: “Donald is easy to lampoon, but harder to portray accurately (and deep down inside he’s really sort of likable - in the way that endearing but out of control 8-year-olds are likable).”

In another 2005 message, O’Brien predicts Trump will “go ballistic” over portions of the book, but adds: “He did see the cover art . . . and called to tell me: ‘I loooovvve this. I look like some kind of superhero. Like a Marvel superhero.’ ”

A source close to Trump told Page Six: “They are dying to settle, but Trump doesn’t want to. They know the numbers are closer to $10 billion and they’ve got a lot of inaccuracies in the book.”

The source said the O’Brien-Sulzberger e-mails will embarrass both men. “O’Brien ridicules Sulzberger,” our insider said. “O’Brien sends him a copy of his book anonymously and Sulzberger gets in touch and says, ‘Hey I got your book . . . and I read it!’ And O’Brien goes, ‘Whoa! I can’t believe you got it. You’re a genius! How did you get it?’ He thinks Sulzberger is a dummy.”

Trump is not suing the Times, even though the paper excerpted the book. O’Brien had no comment. A rep for Sulzberger didn’t get back to us.

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Donald Trump is going to become a grandfather again – his son, Donald Jr., and wife Vanessa are expecting their second child.

Vanessa tells PEOPLE she is 3 ½ months pregnant and due in February.

“We’re so excited,” she said. We just told the family this past Monday. They thought it was great news. I couldn’t hide it any more. The second time you show faster.”

The Trumps already have a baby girl, Kai Madison, born in May 2007. “I’m feeling very tired – the first time around I could put my feet up and relax. This time I have a baby to run after and carry.”

How is Kai taking the news of a sibling? “I point to my belly, and tell her there’s a baby in my belly,” says Vanessa. “She points to her belly button and thinks there’s a baby there. I say, ‘Not for you, for mama.’ ”

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Donald Trump will soon be Ed McMahon’s landlord.

Trump announced Thursday he would save the television personality’s Beverly Hills mansion from foreclosure by buying it for an undisclosed amount and leasing it to McMahon.

The developer told the Los Angeles Times he doesn’t know McMahon personally, but acted out of compassion because helping out “would be an honor.”

McMahon, 85, who was Johnny Carson’s sidekick on the “Tonight” show for three decades, has not worked for about 18 months because of a neck injury. He defaulted on $4.8 million in mortgage loans with Countrywide Financial Corp.

McMahon’s spokesman, Howard Bragman, told The Associated Press that paperwork on the sale had not been completed but that McMahon was “very optimistic” the deal would go through.

“When I was at the Wharton School of Business I’d watch him every night,” Trump told the Times. “How could this happen?”

McMahon bought the six-bedroom, five-bathroom, 7,000-square-foot house in January 1990. The home was listed at $4.6 million last weekend — down from a peak price of $7 million.

He’s suing the Morrison Cohen law firm for $5 million for mentioning he was a client on its Web site. “They put my name up all over their ads like I’m in love with them, and I really don’t like them,” Trump told The Post’s Dareh Gregorian. Trump also sued the barristers in Westchester last year, claiming they bungled a real-estate case and overcharged him. Morrison Cohen lawyer David Scharf counters that they won a multimillion-dollar judgment for Trump and that he’s just trying to get out of paying. “He owes our firm about $600,000,” Scharf said. Trump said he sent them a cease-and-desist letter demanding they take references to him off their site. “If it was somebody I was happy with, that would be one thing, but I’m not happy with them,” Trump said. Scharf said he would not take Trump’s name off his site because his firm indeed worked for him.

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DONALD Trump, who owns some of the best golf courses in the world, has just bought the Shadow Isle Golf Club on 450 acres in posh Colts Neck, NJ. Taken with the quality of the Jerry Pate-designed course and a 90,000-square-foot clubhouse, more than 100 members initially joined at $200,000 a head. But then, because of financial problems and subsequent bad press, sales stopped. The new deal was made between Trump, a major local bank and the original developer for $28 million. Trump will bring in Tom Fazio or Tom Fazio II to upgrade the course. He also plans to improve the clubhouse. “This is magnificent land. When completed, I believe this club will be one of the most successful anywhere. I will be changing the name to Trump National Golf Club/Colts Neck. We already have a long list of people who want to join,” said Trump, who already has courses in Westchester, LA, Palm Beach and Puerto Rico.

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Over the years we’ve had our share of great British combovers - Arthur Scargill and Bobby Charlton to name but two.

But both men would have to doff their cap to the astonishing coiffure of American billionaire Donald Trump.

Rather than invest any of his considerable fortune in a transplant or wig, the 61-year-old property magnate insists on using a series of elaborate measures to plaster strands of hair across his balding pate.

Occasionally, however, it comes unstuck - notably this week when faced with the insistent breeze on the Isle of Lewis, where he was visiting his mother’s former home.

Here, the Daily Mail shows how to achieve the Trump look … in the unlikely event that anyone would want to emulate it.

As for the man himself, he was at a public inquiry in Aberdeen yesterday to be questioned yesterday by environmental campaigners and local councillors over his plans to build ‘the world’s greatest golf course’.

After spending more than three hours giving evidence he said: ‘I am shocked to be here. I thought I would be building the course by now.’

The flamboyant tycoon wants to create two golf courses, a clubhouse, a massive hotel, a conference centre, a golf academy and 950 holiday homes on the Menie Estate in Aberdeenshire, which is currently used for shooting.

Warning that turning down his plans ‘would be a terrible, terrible loss to Scotland’ he said the proposed site was currently littered with the carcases of animals.

He said: ‘It’s a total mess. When you walk on the site right now it’s sort of disgusting. There are bird carcasses lying all over the site.

‘There are dead animals all over the site that have been shot. There may be some people that are into that. I am not.

‘When I build the course we won’t be killing birds. We will be trying for birdies and eagles, but we won’t be killing them.’

The billionaire tycoon sported a somewhat flyaway version of the combover after he landed in Stornoway on his private Boeing 727, which is emblazoned with TRUMP in large gold letters on the side.

Accompanied by his older sister Maryanne, it is the first time he has been on the island since his mother took him there as a child.

And he admitted that he would probably have walked away from his plans to build a £1billion golf resort if his mother had not been from Scotland.

When asked if he would have given up on his plans for the Aberdeenshire resort after they were initially rejected by the council had his mother not been from Scotland.

He said: ‘I think probably I would have, yes.

‘It is really easy to find a nice piece of land to do something nice on. But Scotland is special and I wanted to do something special for my mother.’

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