Clients were given the option of hiding the Trump name on helicopter shuttle

[Demovictory9]

Air Force Pumped Money Into Trump’s Golf Resort As Helicopter Shuttle To Resort Flopped
Clients were given the option of hiding the Trump name on the Sikorsky helicopter in a bid to boost business, The Scotsman reported.

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https://www.huffpost.com/entry/trump-turnberry-helicopter-sikorsky-air-force_n_5d840de3e4b0957256b3fe96

The U.S. Air Force was spending nearly $200,000 at President Donald Trump’s Turnberry golf resort as his own helicopter shuttle service to the club was failing, according to financial filings.

The Trump Organization’s DT Connect Europe Limited travel service registered at Turnberry was doing so poorly that it shipped its helicopter back to the U.S., The Scotsman reported.

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Trump launched the DT Connect service with the ultra-luxe Sikorsky S-76B helicopter in 2014. He announced at the time it would “connect the three dots” of his two Scottish golf resorts as well as Doonbeg in Ireland.

But golf clients weren’t enough to keep the Sikorsky flying, so the helicopter was largely rented out for others to use, according to The Scotsman. But it’s now back in the U.S. and no longer registered in the United Kingdom, according to the newspaper — even though Trump Aviation still boasts of its fleet of three Sikorskys with one in Florida, New York and Scotland.

Trump’s 2018 financial disclosure listed the value of DT Connect in Turnberry as between $1 million and $5 million with a “rental income” of between $100,000 and $1 million. But according to business records filed with the UK, its most recent profit and loss reserves stood at a negative $120 million, which could mean the helicopter has been transferred out of the business.


The helicopter service became even less popular after Trump became president, The Scotsman reported. The director of a charter company that operated the Sikorsky for DT Connect said clients were eventually given the option to cover up the “Trump” name on the helicopter in a bid to boost business.

“In America, Trump is a brand,” Richard Stubbs of Cardinal Helicopter Services which had a contract to fly the Sikorsky, told The Scotsman. “Obviously over here, it’s the focus of people’s anger, sometimes, so we operated with or without the name.”

[Hermit-The-Prog]

1. takes a lot of laundry to keep his shit afloat

[gademocrat7]

2. Corruption and greed

That is all this despicable man knows.

[atreides1]

3. Not just him!!!

Remember the Republican party is now an active part of his corruption and greed...and his base just ignore it!!

We need to stop putting the blame just on him...it's shared by his administration...by Republican politicians...and by Republican and others who will vote for and support him!!!

[tanyev]

4. Oh, it's the focus of plenty of anger in America, too, Mr. Stubbs.

You're just spending most of your time with a small group of people who still have positive feelings for the Trump brand.

[Kid Berwyn]

5. Would that we had the option of hiding Trump from history.

Great smile and all.

[smirkymonkey]

6. This idiot has no idea how much he has destroyed his "brand" globally.

It's only going to get worse. The Trump name is dirt. His base can't afford his properties, those who vote for him out of greed will choose more prestigious properties and the rest of us wouldn't stay at a Trump property if our lives depended on it.

[tanyev]

8. Yep. Whenever the day approaches that he leaves office, occupancy rates at all of his properties

are going to plummet. The majority of people going there now are people who want to suck up to him because he's the president.

[Demovictory9]

14. yep

[Alice11111]

12. Exactly this

[IronLionZion]

7. If only our founders had written this into the constitution somewhere...

oh, wow, it's in there even before the 2nd amendment!

Article 1, Section 9

No Title of Nobility shall be granted by the United States: And no Person holding any Office of Profit or Trust under them, shall, without the Consent of the Congress, accept of any present, Emolument, Office, or Title, of any kind whatever, from any King, Prince, or foreign State.

[flying_wahini]

9. Uh, about that 'Consent of Congress' clause....

Like someone said earlier, Congress IS complicit and should be held accountable.

[IronLionZion]

11. Dems control the house

[machoneman]

10. Geez, if the travel service alone is $120mm in the red, the golf courses must be in far worse shape.

Figure all the taxes, labor, water and greens upkeep means each one must be at least equal in loss if not far more. So, even if only equal, $120mm x 3 = $360,000,000 in the red.

Could not happen to a nicer guy! Bwahahaha!

[Alice11111]

13. At least he is consistent

[scarytomcat]

15. because of this guy I wonder how many more people will go to jail

soo much corruption