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struggle4progress

(118,296 posts)
Mon Feb 13, 2017, 07:43 PM Feb 2017

'The Trump name is becoming toxic'

Edward Helmore in New York
Monday 13 February 2017 13.13 EST

Leading fashion stylists and casting directors have been directed by clients to avoid doing business with Trump Models, a company that promotes itself as “the brainstorm and vision of owner, Donald Trump”, several sources have told the Guardian.

Trump Models refused to comment, but according to its Twitter feed several models had made it on to the catwalk. News of such directives comes during New York fashion week, days after the president used Twitter to condemn the retailer Nordstrom for dropping his daughter Ivanka’s clothing brand, claiming poor sales.

According to one leading casting director who spoke to the Guardian on condition of anonymity, directives to avoid using models represented by Trump Models began last fall, before the presidential election ...


https://www.theguardian.com/fashion/2017/feb/13/trump-models-informal-boycott-fashion-industry

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'The Trump name is becoming toxic' (Original Post) struggle4progress Feb 2017 OP
There's More Than One Way To Skin A Cat..... global1 Feb 2017 #1
just wait... anarch Feb 2017 #2
Unnnn, it'll be toxic in another 6 months of the last 3 weeks... these guys wont even to think about uponit7771 Feb 2017 #3
My fantasy is that his empire will start losing money at a rapid pace that it can no longer pay kimbutgar Feb 2017 #4

global1

(25,253 posts)
1. There's More Than One Way To Skin A Cat.....
Mon Feb 13, 2017, 07:58 PM
Feb 2017

If 45Pee won't divest himself of his businesses - with his name and brand becoming toxic - we'll divest his businesses for him.

anarch

(6,535 posts)
2. just wait...
Mon Feb 13, 2017, 08:12 PM
Feb 2017

I predict that someday it will be truly anathema...not spoken in polite company anywhere on the planet.

uponit7771

(90,347 posts)
3. Unnnn, it'll be toxic in another 6 months of the last 3 weeks... these guys wont even to think about
Mon Feb 13, 2017, 08:22 PM
Feb 2017

... carrying his shit

kimbutgar

(21,164 posts)
4. My fantasy is that his empire will start losing money at a rapid pace that it can no longer pay
Mon Feb 13, 2017, 08:27 PM
Feb 2017

Any debts and he has to go bankrupt again. I see that also happening in six months.

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