Trump 46: Chief Fuckopotamus And #BunkerBitch

[fraurosena]

His campaign must really believe that white supremacists will give them the win. Why else all these not-so-subtle dogwhistles?

 

[GreyhoundFan]

You couldn't make this up:

[GreyhoundFan]

More from the "you couldn't make this up" file:

 

[HerNameIsBuffy]

1 hour ago, fraurosena said:

His campaign must really believe that white supremacists will give them the win. Why else all these not-so-subtle dogwhistles?

 

They are afraid of a big turnout on the side of people who are just sick of him and are trying to scare every last one of his racist cult members into showing up in November.  

If we have a decent sized turn out of people of all stripes I don't think they have the numbers.  If people sit this one out...

I don't want to think about that.

[GreyhoundFan]

So I'm guessing someone told him that keeping the 2016 platform will make him look bad: "Trump calls for a ‘new and updated’ GOP platform after party moves to keep its 2016 document"

Spoiler

President Trump on Friday called on the Republican National Committee to adopt a “new and updated platform” after the party’s executive committee voted this week to keep the current one in place for logistical reasons related to the late move of its high-profile convention events to Jacksonville, Fla.

The decision to readopt the 2016 platform prompted a flurry of media reports Thursday about many instances of language critical of the “current administration” and “the president” that in 2016 was aimed at President Barack Obama — but now could be read as targeting Trump.

“The Republican Party has not yet voted on a Platform,” Trump said in a morning tweet. “No rush. I prefer a new and updated Platform, short form, if possible.”

It was not immediately clear how Trump’s wish would be accomplished. While the RNC is moving Trump’s acceptance speech and other parts of the convention proceedings to Jacksonville, other meetings will still be conducted in Charlotte, the original choice of a convention site, in keeping with party rules and obligations. Part of the rationale for not updating the platform was to avoid having convention delegates travel to Charlotte to do so.

The 2016 platform was critical of Obama and his administration on a wide range of issues, including an increase in the national debt, its frequent issuance of executive orders and an alleged alienation of U.S. allies.

“The current Administration has abandoned America’s friends and rewarded its enemies,” the platform says in just one instance that now could be misinterpreted as criticizing Trump.

The decision to keep the 2016 platform also means that the GOP’s official positions on issues such as same-sex marriage — the party endorsed only “traditional marriages” in the document — will remain the same.

Before the decision of the executive committee, Trump and his aides had been talking for months about adopting a slimmer document than the 58-page one approved in 2016.

Axios reported in May that campaign officials, reporting to Jared Kushner, Trump’s son-in-law and White House adviser, were aiming to reduce the document to something that could fit on a pocket card.

The RNC decided to move major parts of the convention to Jacksonville after the committee was unable to secure assurances from North Carolina Gov. Roy Cooper (D) that large-scale gatherings could be held amid the ongoing coronavirus outbreak.

In a television interview Friday, RNC chairwoman Ronna McDaniel said the party will have a “packed arena” in Jacksonville, in contrast with what would have happened in Charlotte.

“We’re obviously going to put safety checks in place to make sure the convention goers are safe,” McDaniels said during an appearance on Fox News. “But we’re going to have a packed arena, and we’re going to recognize the renomination of our president as we go on to reelect him in November, and it’s going to be a great celebration.”

McDaniel said “it became very apparent” that Cooper “was not going to give us guidelines so that we could hold our convention. And we had to move the celebration part to Florida, but we’ll still have the business of the convention in North Carolina. We love both states.”

I'm guessing the "short form" platform he wants would consist of one bullet point:

• Adore trump at all times.

[47of74]

Lysol von Clusterfuck thinks cause Micro$oft won't sell facial recognition tech to the gestapo police departments they shouldn't be allowed to do biz with the Federal government.

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President Donald Trump retweeted a post from his former director of national intelligence that called for barring Microsoft Corp. from federal government contracts over its refusal to sell facial recognition software to U.S. police departments until there are laws governing use of the technology.

“They should now be barred from federal government contracts - there should be consequences for not selling technology to police departments,” Trump’s former Acting DNI Richard Grenell tweeted.

The White House didn’t immediately respond to a request for comment.

Microsoft President Brad Smith said Thursday that the company won’t sell facial recognition software to U.S. police departments until there are laws in place governing the use of such technology, making the pledge a day after rival Amazon.com Inc. paused similar usage for a year.

 

[Dandruff]

6 hours ago, fraurosena said:

His campaign must really believe that white supremacists will give them the win. Why else all these not-so-subtle dogwhistles?

It'll get him extra attention.  He likes that.

[GreyhoundFan]

Can't say that I'm sad that the bunker bitch's company isn't doing so well: "Pandemic deepens economic pain at Trump’s company, already suffering from a tarnished brand"

Spoiler

The head of President Trump’s flagship hotel stood on Pennsylvania Avenue with face mask on and two thumbs up.

After three brutal months of empty hotel rooms and a skeleton staff, Mickael Damelincourt finally had something to celebrate: new sidewalk seating to safely welcome back Trump’s MAGA-loving customers. “Let’s get back to work,” Damelincourt tweeted on May 28.

By the next day, Trump was in his underground bunker, protesters swarmed downtown Washington cursing Trump’s name, and the hotel’s outdoor seating experiment was tabled.

The whiplash at Trump’s D.C. hotel is emblematic of the problems faced by his company, which was already suffering from a tarnished brand before the novel coronavirus hit. The fresh wave of political anger directed toward Trump complicates an already difficult recovery for the company.

Interviews with current and former Trump Organization employees and tenants, and emails obtained by The Washington Post, show the pandemic in particular has rattled operations at the company. With thousands of Trump’s hotel rooms empty, the company laid off or furloughed more than 2,800 employees and scoured for even the smallest savings. It eliminated flowers, chocolates and newspapers at its New York hotel and turned off lights in common areas in its Chicago hotel to save on electricity, according to letters that hotel management sent to investors.

“This was not just a step down,” Eric Danziger, the chief executive of Trump Hotels, told board members of Trump’s Chicago hotel on April 22, according to an account of his phone call obtained by The Post. “This was a steep dive.”

Trump’s business struggles present a potential conflict as he tries as president to manage a pandemic that has already claimed more than 110,000 American lives. The outbreak has devastated industries at the core of Trump’s business — travel, luxury tourism and hospitality — and the company’s fortunes largely depend on people’s willingness to travel and ability to gather in large groups.

Trump has handed day-to-day operations of the company to his eldest sons. Eric Trump did not respond to multiple requests for comment before this story’s publication. After this story published Friday, he tweeted that the company “had one of the BEST years in the HISTORY of the Organization in 2019” and that the details would be available in the president’s personal financial disclosure, likely to be made public later this month. He accused The Post of trying to harass the president and the company. “We have very little debt, tremendous cash flow & some of the greatest properties on earth, which have never been better, & are winning every accolade & award.”

The damage of the past months appears extensive. Out of Trump’s five top-earning hotels and resorts, four of them — in Miami, Las Vegas, Scotland and Ireland — shut down in March and remained closed through May. An analysis by The Post of Trump Organization revenue, based on Trump’s latest public financial disclosure, which covers 2018, indicate Trump probably lost out on tens of millions of dollars in revenue over the past three months.

Even before the pandemic, Trump’s polarizing presidency had sapped revenue from his business. At least two of Trump’s U.S. hotels — in Chicago and Miami — had reported sharp declines in business after Trump entered politics. The company’s hotel in Washington is now up for sale.

More recently, protesters have denounced Trump outside his New York, Washington and California properties, hurling invectives at these physical symbols of his presidency. At Trump’s golf course in Jupiter, Fla., the 18-year-old son of a former Republican congressman was arrested for spray-painting “B.L.M.” — an abbreviation for Black Lives Matter — on the entrance sign.

But along with the rest of the country, the Trump Organization has begun opening back up. Members can visit Mar-a-Lago, but only the beach club. Golfers can step out onto Trump’s course along the Potomac River and some, like him, even do so without a mask.

Eric Trump tweeted Wednesday that Trump’s Doral resort in Florida — the company’s highest-earning hotel — will be reopening next week. President Trump quickly chimed in on Twitter about this financial burden: “And the Trump family didn’t ask the Federal government for money to carry this and many other very expensive to carry properties!”

Because it is owned by the president, the Trump Organization was excluded from portions of federal relief funding.

One former Trump Organization executive said the company should get out of the hotel business, which accounts for about a third of company revenue.

“They have too many rooms to fill in a market where demand has suffered,” the former executive said on the condition of anonymity to discuss the company’s private financial situation. “He is too divisive a character in Chicago and NYC. In any market one wants to be neutral — he leaves many potential guests bitter and hostile.”

The picture is not all dire. The Trump Organization receives licensing and management fees for some Trump-branded properties that are owned by others; and there is no indication those fees have been disrupted. The company so far appears to have met its financial obligations even while seeking relief from creditors.

In late March, Trump’s golf club in Pine Hill, N.J. — which pays a monthly fee of $20,833 to use town-owned land — told the town it “may not be in a position to make [the payment] for a minimum of 120 days,” according to an email obtained via public-records request. But the next day, the club reversed itself and paid the fee, other emails said.

Some former employees expect the company to weather the current difficulties because Trump owns an array of major real estate assets and has fans to patronize his properties.

“I think he’s going to be fine,” said one former Trump employee who spoke on the condition of anonymity to discuss a former boss. “If you own all these things outright, it’s going to be a lot easier to get through it.”

One of the tenants in Trump-owned buildings that is almost certainly asking to pay less is Starbucks, which wrote to its thousands of landlords May 5 asking for a year’s worth of reduced rent beginning June 1. The coffee chain rents space at Trump Tower in New York and at Trump’s D.C. hotel. In Washington, Starbucks pays Trump $14,118 per month, increasing to $15,787 a month in 2023, according to Trump Organization documents obtained by The Post.

“We are having ongoing conversations with our landlords in various markets regarding what may be commercially reasonable lease concessions in the current environment,” Starbucks Chief Financial Officer Pat Grismer told investors in April. Starbucks spokespeople didn’t respond to multiple requests for comment about rent negotiations at the Trump properties.

Other Trump tenants are now facing their own difficulties.

A massive Italian restaurant had been scheduled to open later this summer on the ground floor of a Wall Street skyscraper owned by Trump. But instead, as the coronavirus spreads, Nero.lab’s Italian Food Zone will probably have to adjust its initial concept — an 18,000-square-foot food hall where diners were to share communal tables and wait in lines for gelato and espresso. The Rome-based company’s chief executive, Alfredo Polizzi, remains optimistic about future prospects at 40 Wall Street. But he knows the restaurant won’t open until next year.

“We surely would’ve liked to do it sooner,” Polizzi said in an interview. “But given the situation, I don’t feel that would be wise.”

Another tenant at 40 Wall Street is Neapolitan Express, which operates pizza restaurants and food trucks in New York. The company has rented space in the building since 2015, said owner Max Crespo.

Crespo’s business has cratered — revenue dropped 27 percent in March, 55 percent in April, and 90 percent in May — but he has so far retained all 45 of his employees while also donating thousands of free pizzas to medical personnel and first responders. Just as things were opening up last month, protests and looting again drove away customers. The 40 Wall Street building got boarded up and spray-painted with anti-Trump graffiti, Crespo said.

“Our city’s on its knees right now,” said Crespo, 47, a lifelong New Yorker. “This is the worst I’ve ever seen it.”

Crespo said the Trump Organization collected full rent the past three months but also that Trump Organization employees have been “good partners” who “said if we have any problems going forward they can work with us.”

He pays the Trump Organization more than $20,000 per month but hopes to renegotiate and expects many restaurants across New York will not be able to continue operating at current rents.

“Obviously, I’m going to go and ask for a reduction in rent,” he said. “I’m sure they would work with us.”

Even when stay-at-home orders end and more people return to work, hotel operators and office building owners face tremendous uncertainty about how their businesses will recover. Hotels in the United States lost 82 percent of their business for the month of April compared with last year, according to hotel data analysis firm STR. Luxury hotels saw their businesses wiped out almost completely, losing 96.6 percent of their business in April after taking in just $60 million in revenue nationwide.

Analysts also expect the hotel industry to be one of the last sectors to recover given people’s aversion to travel during the pandemic.

Hotel experts predict the corporate meetings-and-events sector will be particularly slow to recover.

“I have no idea what corporate group [travel] looks like in a six-foot world,” said Jan Freitag, a senior vice president at STR.

Buffets? Open bars? Networking events? he said.

“There is corporate group demand that likely will not come back for four or five years,” he said.

This has meant layoffs on a large scale for Trump’s employees, with the steepest cuts at the hotels. Twelve Trump Organization properties in the United States and Canada laid off or furloughed employees, including cooks, waiters, housekeepers and valets, according to local filings.

Some of the job losses will not be temporary: At Doral, the company initially furloughed 560 employees, then later said in a filing that 250 of those jobs would be permanent layoffs.

Danziger, the chief executive of Trump Hotels, said in his call that the company could begin shifting toward using more part-time employees, who are not entitled to health benefits.

Even before the pandemic, there were signs that Trump’s politics drove away some potential customers.

“The vibe I got was that half of the guests wouldn’t feel comfortable ever coming to a meeting there,” said a former employee at Trump’s D.C. hotel who was involved in booking conferences. Some hurdles can be overcome with good salesmanship, the former staffer said, but “this wasn’t overcome-able.”

The staffer, who spoke on the condition of anonymity to preserve relationships in the hotel industry, was laid off last year because of lack of business.

The pandemic eliminated months of events across Trump’s company. At Doral, at least 10 events this year have been canceled or postponed, according to the groups planning the events.

Trump’s Mar-a-Lago Club was forced to shut down in late March, missing the last month of Palm Beach’s traditional winter social season. The club reopened its poolside Beach Club in mid-May, but with restrictions: The number of diners was limited, congregating was prohibited, and the club warned that “social distancing will be enforced” even in the Jacuzzi.

The club said it would now stay open a month longer than usual, to the end of June. One member, who spoke on the condition of anonymity to discuss the private club, told The Post that he planned to stay away anyway.

At the D.C. hotel, the patio seating plan was scheduled to restart again Friday. A previous attempt for outdoor tables earlier in Trump’s presidency ended after pedestrians regularly insulted hotel guests and staff, former employees said.

 

[Ozlsn]

40 minutes ago, GreyhoundFan said:

Danziger, the chief executive of Trump Hotels, said in his call that the company could begin shifting toward using more part-time employees, who are not entitled to health benefits.

I find that so rude. All employees, full time or part time, should be entitled to health benefits. I do feel sorry for all the staff who have been furloughs or laid off - not so much for the higher levels, who presumably have more options open to them, and not at all for Eric and Donnie. 

[fraurosena]

8 hours ago, HerNameIsBuffy said:

If we have a decent sized turn out of people of all stripes I don't think they have the numbers.  If people sit this one out...

I don't want to think about that.

No need to if Georgia is anything to go by.

Voter turnout in there this week — despite the appalling attempts at voter suppression going on, mind you — was more than triple the number for the primaries in 2016.

https://www.nbcnews.com/politics/2020-election/voter-turnout-soared-georgia-despite-massive-primary-day-problems-n1230806

[onekidanddone]

10 hours ago, GreyhoundFan said:

Can't say that I'm sad that the bunker bitch's company isn't doing so well: "Pandemic deepens economic pain at Trump’s company, already suffering from a tarnished brand"

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The head of President Trump’s flagship hotel stood on Pennsylvania Avenue with face mask on and two thumbs up.

After three brutal months of empty hotel rooms and a skeleton staff, Mickael Damelincourt finally had something to celebrate: new sidewalk seating to safely welcome back Trump’s MAGA-loving customers. “Let’s get back to work,” Damelincourt tweeted on May 28.

By the next day, Trump was in his underground bunker, protesters swarmed downtown Washington cursing Trump’s name, and the hotel’s outdoor seating experiment was tabled.

The whiplash at Trump’s D.C. hotel is emblematic of the problems faced by his company, which was already suffering from a tarnished brand before the novel coronavirus hit. The fresh wave of political anger directed toward Trump complicates an already difficult recovery for the company.

Interviews with current and former Trump Organization employees and tenants, and emails obtained by The Washington Post, show the pandemic in particular has rattled operations at the company. With thousands of Trump’s hotel rooms empty, the company laid off or furloughed more than 2,800 employees and scoured for even the smallest savings. It eliminated flowers, chocolates and newspapers at its New York hotel and turned off lights in common areas in its Chicago hotel to save on electricity, according to letters that hotel management sent to investors.

“This was not just a step down,” Eric Danziger, the chief executive of Trump Hotels, told board members of Trump’s Chicago hotel on April 22, according to an account of his phone call obtained by The Post. “This was a steep dive.”

Trump’s business struggles present a potential conflict as he tries as president to manage a pandemic that has already claimed more than 110,000 American lives. The outbreak has devastated industries at the core of Trump’s business — travel, luxury tourism and hospitality — and the company’s fortunes largely depend on people’s willingness to travel and ability to gather in large groups.

Trump has handed day-to-day operations of the company to his eldest sons. Eric Trump did not respond to multiple requests for comment before this story’s publication. After this story published Friday, he tweeted that the company “had one of the BEST years in the HISTORY of the Organization in 2019” and that the details would be available in the president’s personal financial disclosure, likely to be made public later this month. He accused The Post of trying to harass the president and the company. “We have very little debt, tremendous cash flow & some of the greatest properties on earth, which have never been better, & are winning every accolade & award.”

The damage of the past months appears extensive. Out of Trump’s five top-earning hotels and resorts, four of them — in Miami, Las Vegas, Scotland and Ireland — shut down in March and remained closed through May. An analysis by The Post of Trump Organization revenue, based on Trump’s latest public financial disclosure, which covers 2018, indicate Trump probably lost out on tens of millions of dollars in revenue over the past three months.

Even before the pandemic, Trump’s polarizing presidency had sapped revenue from his business. At least two of Trump’s U.S. hotels — in Chicago and Miami — had reported sharp declines in business after Trump entered politics. The company’s hotel in Washington is now up for sale.

More recently, protesters have denounced Trump outside his New York, Washington and California properties, hurling invectives at these physical symbols of his presidency. At Trump’s golf course in Jupiter, Fla., the 18-year-old son of a former Republican congressman was arrested for spray-painting “B.L.M.” — an abbreviation for Black Lives Matter — on the entrance sign.

But along with the rest of the country, the Trump Organization has begun opening back up. Members can visit Mar-a-Lago, but only the beach club. Golfers can step out onto Trump’s course along the Potomac River and some, like him, even do so without a mask.

Eric Trump tweeted Wednesday that Trump’s Doral resort in Florida — the company’s highest-earning hotel — will be reopening next week. President Trump quickly chimed in on Twitter about this financial burden: “And the Trump family didn’t ask the Federal government for money to carry this and many other very expensive to carry properties!”

Because it is owned by the president, the Trump Organization was excluded from portions of federal relief funding.

One former Trump Organization executive said the company should get out of the hotel business, which accounts for about a third of company revenue.

“They have too many rooms to fill in a market where demand has suffered,” the former executive said on the condition of anonymity to discuss the company’s private financial situation. “He is too divisive a character in Chicago and NYC. In any market one wants to be neutral — he leaves many potential guests bitter and hostile.”

The picture is not all dire. The Trump Organization receives licensing and management fees for some Trump-branded properties that are owned by others; and there is no indication those fees have been disrupted. The company so far appears to have met its financial obligations even while seeking relief from creditors.

In late March, Trump’s golf club in Pine Hill, N.J. — which pays a monthly fee of $20,833 to use town-owned land — told the town it “may not be in a position to make [the payment] for a minimum of 120 days,” according to an email obtained via public-records request. But the next day, the club reversed itself and paid the fee, other emails said.

Some former employees expect the company to weather the current difficulties because Trump owns an array of major real estate assets and has fans to patronize his properties.

“I think he’s going to be fine,” said one former Trump employee who spoke on the condition of anonymity to discuss a former boss. “If you own all these things outright, it’s going to be a lot easier to get through it.”

One of the tenants in Trump-owned buildings that is almost certainly asking to pay less is Starbucks, which wrote to its thousands of landlords May 5 asking for a year’s worth of reduced rent beginning June 1. The coffee chain rents space at Trump Tower in New York and at Trump’s D.C. hotel. In Washington, Starbucks pays Trump $14,118 per month, increasing to $15,787 a month in 2023, according to Trump Organization documents obtained by The Post.

“We are having ongoing conversations with our landlords in various markets regarding what may be commercially reasonable lease concessions in the current environment,” Starbucks Chief Financial Officer Pat Grismer told investors in April. Starbucks spokespeople didn’t respond to multiple requests for comment about rent negotiations at the Trump properties.

Other Trump tenants are now facing their own difficulties.

A massive Italian restaurant had been scheduled to open later this summer on the ground floor of a Wall Street skyscraper owned by Trump. But instead, as the coronavirus spreads, Nero.lab’s Italian Food Zone will probably have to adjust its initial concept — an 18,000-square-foot food hall where diners were to share communal tables and wait in lines for gelato and espresso. The Rome-based company’s chief executive, Alfredo Polizzi, remains optimistic about future prospects at 40 Wall Street. But he knows the restaurant won’t open until next year.

“We surely would’ve liked to do it sooner,” Polizzi said in an interview. “But given the situation, I don’t feel that would be wise.”

Another tenant at 40 Wall Street is Neapolitan Express, which operates pizza restaurants and food trucks in New York. The company has rented space in the building since 2015, said owner Max Crespo.

Crespo’s business has cratered — revenue dropped 27 percent in March, 55 percent in April, and 90 percent in May — but he has so far retained all 45 of his employees while also donating thousands of free pizzas to medical personnel and first responders. Just as things were opening up last month, protests and looting again drove away customers. The 40 Wall Street building got boarded up and spray-painted with anti-Trump graffiti, Crespo said.

“Our city’s on its knees right now,” said Crespo, 47, a lifelong New Yorker. “This is the worst I’ve ever seen it.”

Crespo said the Trump Organization collected full rent the past three months but also that Trump Organization employees have been “good partners” who “said if we have any problems going forward they can work with us.”

He pays the Trump Organization more than $20,000 per month but hopes to renegotiate and expects many restaurants across New York will not be able to continue operating at current rents.

“Obviously, I’m going to go and ask for a reduction in rent,” he said. “I’m sure they would work with us.”

Even when stay-at-home orders end and more people return to work, hotel operators and office building owners face tremendous uncertainty about how their businesses will recover. Hotels in the United States lost 82 percent of their business for the month of April compared with last year, according to hotel data analysis firm STR. Luxury hotels saw their businesses wiped out almost completely, losing 96.6 percent of their business in April after taking in just $60 million in revenue nationwide.

Analysts also expect the hotel industry to be one of the last sectors to recover given people’s aversion to travel during the pandemic.

Hotel experts predict the corporate meetings-and-events sector will be particularly slow to recover.

“I have no idea what corporate group [travel] looks like in a six-foot world,” said Jan Freitag, a senior vice president at STR.

Buffets? Open bars? Networking events? he said.

“There is corporate group demand that likely will not come back for four or five years,” he said.

This has meant layoffs on a large scale for Trump’s employees, with the steepest cuts at the hotels. Twelve Trump Organization properties in the United States and Canada laid off or furloughed employees, including cooks, waiters, housekeepers and valets, according to local filings.

Some of the job losses will not be temporary: At Doral, the company initially furloughed 560 employees, then later said in a filing that 250 of those jobs would be permanent layoffs.

Danziger, the chief executive of Trump Hotels, said in his call that the company could begin shifting toward using more part-time employees, who are not entitled to health benefits.

Even before the pandemic, there were signs that Trump’s politics drove away some potential customers.

“The vibe I got was that half of the guests wouldn’t feel comfortable ever coming to a meeting there,” said a former employee at Trump’s D.C. hotel who was involved in booking conferences. Some hurdles can be overcome with good salesmanship, the former staffer said, but “this wasn’t overcome-able.”

The staffer, who spoke on the condition of anonymity to preserve relationships in the hotel industry, was laid off last year because of lack of business.

The pandemic eliminated months of events across Trump’s company. At Doral, at least 10 events this year have been canceled or postponed, according to the groups planning the events.

Trump’s Mar-a-Lago Club was forced to shut down in late March, missing the last month of Palm Beach’s traditional winter social season. The club reopened its poolside Beach Club in mid-May, but with restrictions: The number of diners was limited, congregating was prohibited, and the club warned that “social distancing will be enforced” even in the Jacuzzi.

The club said it would now stay open a month longer than usual, to the end of June. One member, who spoke on the condition of anonymity to discuss the private club, told The Post that he planned to stay away anyway.

At the D.C. hotel, the patio seating plan was scheduled to restart again Friday. A previous attempt for outdoor tables earlier in Trump’s presidency ended after pedestrians regularly insulted hotel guests and staff, former employees said.

 

Aww that is sooooooo sad ?  I’ll donate to his company. Do you have change for a penny?

[GreyhoundFan]

I long for the day when we have a president who can think and speak at a level exceeding that of a second grader.

 

[GreyhoundFan]

The neurological decline is readily apparent.

 

[Dandruff]

2 hours ago, GreyhoundFan said:

The neurological decline is readily apparent.

He may have decided last-second that he didn't want to touch his lips to the glass, due to potential germs.  He won't wear a mask to protect from COVID-19, though.  That's something I think the neurological experts might want to consider.

[GreyhoundFan]

So Dumpy's campaign manager tweeted this about the upcoming hate rally:

Some of the replies are wonderful:

 

More under spoiler:

Spoiler

 

Edited June 13, 2020 by GreyhoundFan

[fraurosena]

3 hours ago, GreyhoundFan said:

The neurological decline is readily apparent.

 

It also looks like he's used to drinking everything from a straw -- just look at the way he pouts his lips just before the glass reaches his mouth, as if blindly searching for the tip of the straw. 

[fraurosena]

Good question. 

 

[onekidanddone]

They must have left the presidential soppy cup at home

[Exchange Atheist]

2 hours ago, GreyhoundFan said:

So Dumpy's campaign manager tweeted this about the upcoming hate rally:

Some of the replies are wonderful:

 

More under spoiler:

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There were viral posts on tumblr and reddit encouraging people to fake ticket reservations for the rally. People were hoping to reserve so many fake tickets that the venue would be mostly empty: 

Now I’m wondering if these posts might have been planted by someone in the administration who just wanted to boost reservation numbers. 

[GreyhoundFan]

"Trump reschedules Juneteenth rally in Tulsa amid criticism"

Spoiler

President Trump announced Friday that he is rescheduling his first campaign rally in months following criticism that it was set for Juneteenth, the observance of the end of slavery in the United States, in a city that experienced one of the country’s worst episodes of racial violence in U.S. history.

In a late-night tweet, Trump said he is pushing the “Make America Great Again” rally in Tulsa back a day, to June 20, in response to “many of my African American friends and supporters.”

“We had previously scheduled our #MAGA Rally in Tulsa, Oklahoma, for June 19th – a big deal,” Trump wrote. “Unfortunately, however, this would fall on the Juneteenth Holiday. Many of my African American friends and supporters have reached out to suggest that we consider changing the date out of respect for this Holiday, and in observance of this important occasion and all that it represents.”

In a television interview recorded Thursday, Trump said the date had not been chosen deliberately but dismissed concerns about the timing.

“Think about it as a celebration. My rallies are celebrations,” Trump told Fox News. “In the history of politics, I think I can say, there’s never been any group or any person that’s had rallies like I do. . . . The fact I’m having a rally on that day you can really think about that very positively.”

During the same interview, Trump also asserted that, “I think I’ve done more for the black community than any other president.”

“And let’s take a pass on Abraham Lincoln, ’cause he did good, though it’s always questionable, you know,” he added.

The timing and location of the rally had drawn heavy criticism from African American leaders and Democrats, who said it sent the wrong message, particularly in the wake of weeks of protests sparked by the death of George Floyd in Minneapolis police custody.

Tulsa was the site of a 1921 massacre in which a white mob killed dozens of black people and destroyed black-owned businesses.

In a tweet this week, Rep. Val Demings (D-Fla.) wrote that “Tulsa was the site of the worst racist violence in American history.”

“The president’s speech there on Juneteenth is a message to every Black American: more of the same,” she said, echoing the sentiments of other critics.

Trump’s rallies, which typically draw thousands of supporters, have been on hold since March because of the coronavirus pandemic.

In his Friday night tweets, Trump boasted of the number of tickets that have been distributed for the Tulsa event, adding, “I look forward to seeing everyone in Oklahoma!”

 

[fraurosena]

 

[fraurosena]

He could never be called an eloquent speaker, but the difference here is absolutely astounding.

If he's not on medication or drugs, then his mental decline is frightening. 

[WiseGirl]

Aunt Crabby is on the job.

I bet #BunkerBitch never knew about Juneteenth Day.

14 hours ago, GreyhoundFan said:

We had previously scheduled our #MAGA Rally in Tulsa, Oklahoma, for June 19th – a big deal,” Trump wrote. “Unfortunately, however, this would fall on the Juneteenth Holiday. 

 

2 hours ago, fraurosena said:

he's not on medication or drugs, then his mental decline is frightening

Very frightening.

[fraurosena]

Today is Trump's birthday... and #ObamaDay is trending. 

 

[47of74]

Whatever you do don't retweet this.  You might piss poor #BunkerBitch off.