Eric Trump blames 'cancel culture' for businesses ditching the Trump brand after MAGA riot

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Yeah, that's the reason...

As more and more businesses flee from the Trump brand in the wake of the riot at the U.S.Capitol on January 6, President Trump’s second eldest son, Eric Trump, blamed liberal “cancel culture” for the exodus, the Associated Press reports.

“We live in the age of cancel culture, but this isn’t something that started this week. It is something that they have been doing to us and others for years,” Eric Trump told the AP on Tuesday. “If you disagree with them, if they don’t like you, they try and cancel you.”

As the AP points out, Trump’s remarks come in the midst of a huge backlash in the wake of the storming of the U.S. Capitol.

“…the PGA of America voted to strip its namesake championship from Trump’s Bedminister, New Jersey, golf course next year, a British golf organization said the British Open will not be played at a Trump property in the ‘foreseeable future,’ the e-commerce company Shopify stopped helping run the online Trump Store, and New York City announced it was looking to cancel contracts with Trump for skating rinks and a golf course in the Bronx,” the AP reports. “… And potentially most troubling of all, several banks, including one of his biggest lenders, Deutsche Bank, have reportedly said they would no longer lend to Trump’s company, raising the prospect that the president may have to dig into his own pockets to pay off his loans if he can’t refinance.”


https://deadstate.org/eric-trump-blames-cancel-culture-for-businesses-ditching-the-trump-brand-after-maga-riot/

[Claustrum]

1. What's this "cancel culture" BS? They boycott things just as much as us.

[Claire Oh Nette]

21. We are not a reality TV show

They only view things in terms of ratings.

The Invisible Hand of the Free Market.
The made his brand, now he has to lie in it.

No one wants to hear your drivel, Gums.
Pack light for Leavenworth.

[C_U_L8R]

2. They've worn out their grievance du jour.

Just go away, Eric

[MineralMan]

3. Eric: You Are Cancelled!

Not that you were much in the first place, but you are now cancelled. Bye...

[exboyfil]

4. After Hitler's failed putsch

I suspect he would have had a difficult time selling golf club memberships.

[DanieRains]

5. Yes Your Trump Sh*t Show Has Been Cancelled

Only nut jobs, looking for excuses to hurt others watched anyway.

Buh bye.

[marmar]

6. "Canceling" their relationship with a toxic, seditious family.

[Wounded Bear]

7. Funny how they only complain when they're the ones being "canceled"...nt

[JHB]

8. It's called "the market", sweetheart.

[global1]

9. They Are Protecting Their Brand Just Like Trump Is Trying....

to protect his brand.

Only problem for the Trump brand is he can't move away from Trump like the others can.

[Initech]

10. Blaming "cancel culture" is their latest scapegoat for everything.

Nice try, Eric.

[PatSeg]

11. "Cancel culture"???

Disagree with you? Yeah Eric, people disagree with a president supporting sedition and insurrection in our own capitol. Its kind of a quaint American tradition to frown upon an armed mob taking over our government.

God, all the Trumps play the victim whenever things don't go their way.

[lame54]

22. The culture that cancelled Trump's second term

[PatSeg]

30. Absolutely!

[redstatebluegirl]

12. Suck it up Buttercup!

It is the only way to get through to people like you, go after your money, that is all you value. You don't value our country or it's values, you have led a bunch of sheep to slaughter, tried to destroy our country and now you are crying about your loss of business. I DON'T CARE!!!!

[PJMcK]

13. Hey, Eric!

People don't want to do business with your criminal family.

People don't want to be associated with your Nazi father.

People don't want to stay in your over-priced shitty hotels where the food sucks.

The free market is what you're experiencing. Suck on it.

[MissMillie]

14. The true "cancel culture"

The right trying to cancel the rights of people of color
The right trying to cancel the rights of women
the right trying to cancel healthcare for millions of Americans

And the right cancelling out the left--not just ignoring liberals and progressives, but painting them as "communists," "socialists," "pedophiles," as "anti-American."

[dalton99a]

23. +1. Republicans want to cancel the votes of millions of black Americans

[ScratchCat]

15. Aw, the "You're either with us, or with the terrorists" crowd

Don't like it when people make a decision that affects them financially. Guess its all ok when its the Dixie Chicks or K-mart, ehh?

[Ferryboat]

16. The invisible hand of the free market

Is giving your family a HUGE middle finger.

No rational person or business wants to be associated with racist traitors.

[SKKY]

17. Everyone likes free-market capitalism until it sneaks up behind them and kicks them in the ass...

...then it becomes cancel culture. Womp Womp.

[Mr. Ected]

18. We've been trying to cancel the Trumps for at least 5 years, FOR CAUSE

Sorry Eric, it's called capitalism. Live by the sword, die by the sword. People vote with their dollars and they ain't voting Trump anymore. Quit yer whining and join the masses who have to work for a living, you hypocritical little deranged fuck.

[samsingh]

19. what did he say about the Dixie Chicks?

[ananda]

20. You've been cancelled.

...

[BlueStater]

24. Yes, that's how it works, you whiny asshole.

These companies consider associating with your disgusting family to be harmful to their brand, so they’re cutting ties with you. Suck it up.

[DeminPennswoods]

25. That's gratitude for ya in free market capitalism

nt

[Yeehah]

26. I won't be happy until I see every member of this grifting, family of criminals

diving into dumpsters to get a meal.

[MagickMuffin]

27. Yes YES Eric we want to CANCEL CULTURE you and your brand

may I never see your gaudy name emblazoned on any buildings, magazine, and especially TV.

And more importantly I hope your whole family goes to prison where you belong. And to recoup ALL the money that your family stole from the US government.

[Buns_of_Fire]

28. Face it, Gums: Nobody likes your old man.

And we're not too crazy about you, either.

[Vinca]

29. Poor Eric. He's already worrying he might have to get a job.

[Johnny2X2X]

31. Trump Organization will collapse

Same reason why Hitler Corporation isn't a thing, no one wants to be associated with a monster.

[Caliman73]

32. Conservatives and words

I used the same title in a post yesterday. Conservatives use words as weapons, charging them emotionally and distorting the concept to suit their agenda, which is usually to play victim in order to avoid scrutiny. This tactic plays on the liberal mentality towards tolerance and "fair play".

There is actually a thing as "cancel culture". It is largely an online thing, that sometimes has obvious and significant consequences offline. Cancelling in the negative sense has been defined as situations in which someone with some amount of publicity or popularity, says something, does something, or associates with someone who has said or done something deemed offensive. Often time the offender is piled on by others, their words or actions are often taken out of context, or more weight is placed on a particular situation than on the body of that person's work, and the person's transgression is made "essential" meaning that rather than a "bad moment" it is part of who that person is, and they are characterized as having no positive values.

For example, let's say Tom Hanks, generally thought of as a "nice guy" in Hollywood, good politics, loving husband/father, etc... let's say that Hanks is out at a restaurant being hounded by paparazzi and he say's, "You ghouls, leave me alone!" and maybe rushes at a photographer. Someone sees it and starts saying Hanks was aggressive, crazy, and even used some racial words. Then others pile on and bring up that time that they saw Hanks in Westwood, and Hanks pushed him aside (likely not true, but who knows), now you have the pile on where Hanks has been transformed from "generally good guy" to "out of control racist" who should be called out, his movies boycotted, etc... That is negative cancel culture.

Right wingers obviously distort this concept and anything that is an attempt to hold people accountable becomes "cancel culture". The Trump family banked on the family name to accumulate wealth. That brand was the only lucrative thing they had going for them. Their father, and they themselves, drug that name through the mud by fomenting insurrection, caging children, abetting in the deaths of almost 400,000 people in a year from a virus we could have held in check, and many many other verifiable, horrible things. That businesses are disassociating themselves with that horrible brand, is just a natural consequence of a very public flame out. Trump thought he could just get rich beyond his wildest dreams as president. He forgot that the spotlight and microscope on the president is equal to the power of the office. He thought he would just do what he does, but ultimately who you are is plain to see to all, and for the business world, if you can't make money, you are nobody. The Trumps can no longer make money. Not cancel culture, consequences.

[JI7]

35. Kathy Griffin

[jpljr77]

36. Womp womp :(

[yellowcanine]

37. Eric maybe they like Presidents who aren't seditionists.

[Paladin]

38. Blow it out your ass, Gummy Fredo. Then disappear. (nt)

[FakeNoose]

39. It's those Deep State Antifa Cancellers

They're at it again!

The Chump Family is cancelled - all of 'em.