2016 Postmortem
Related: About this forumIt's not easy living in a Trump building these days
Donald Trump has long been one of this citys top figures in real estate, affixing his name invariably in gold to the marquees of more than a dozen Manhattan buildings.
But as his polarizing campaign for president has turned a segment of the population against him, home has become an uncomfortable place for some. At several Trump buildings, residents are quietly petitioning to get rid of his name.
I used to tell people I lived in Trump Place. Now I say I live at 66th and Riverside Boulevard, said Sandra Brod, 74, a retiree waiting for a friend at a park bench outside her building one recent afternoon. He has a mouth like a sewer.
Though Trump is a native New Yorker born and bred in Queens this is not his kind of town. More than a third of the citys residents are immigrants, a group Trump has alienated with his proclamations against Muslim refugees and Mexicans.
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Anti-Trump protesters have hurled eggs at the glass-and-granite facades of the row of Trump buildings where Brod lives. At other buildings, theyve dumped excrement.
His flagship Trump Tower, a 63-story monolith on Fifth Avenue where Trump lives in a penthouse, has become a focal point for Trump fans more than a hundred gathered there to cheer him the day after a damaging tape was released in which he boasted of groping women.
http://www.latimes.com/politics/la-na-pol-trump-name-snap-story.html
napi21
(45,806 posts)his coming & going difficult for him to do.
He's always been so intent on making money, I'm sure that his Brand popularity falling, causing his net worth to suffer is really driving him nuts! Also heard bookings at his hotels have dropped by 59% since January.
He deserves everything that's happening to him. He should have stuck to his what he was doing instead of trying to get into politics and letting too many people learn what an AH he really is.
Cha
(297,733 posts)In Russia, there was a spree of pulling down statues of Stalin and erasing his likeness from buildings. Thats how the real estate market will treat Trump".
Keith Olbermann, former resident of Trump Palace
I got out with 90% of my money and 100% of my soul, he tweeted in July upon completing the sale.
"Most of the buildings pay the Trump Organization for the use of the name and are bound by contract to do so. Removing his name would not be easy"
Ekkk!
Thanks Yo.. interesting!
Oh and this..
There was a boycott against Macy's if they would have kept drumpf's skivvies.
moonscape
(4,673 posts)I say the buildings should go bankrupt (pretend this is possible) and/or stop paying him.
It's the Trump way.