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Misty » 02 Jun 2016 11:49 am » wrote:Rep. Jerrold Nadler (D-NY) is calling on Donald Trump to return $150k of federal funds he received, which were intended to help small businesses harmed in the 9/11 attacks.
None of The Feral Shouting Meatball's businesses were affected by the terrorist attack. He said so himself.

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Misty » 02 Jun 2016 11:25 am » wrote: How magnanimous of you.

Trump’s Campaign Is Damaging His Brand

If Donald Trump is nothing else, he’s an American brand. The Trump name adorns luxury condominiums, hotels and golf courses around the world; it has sold a TV show, millions of books, a line of cologne and even, briefly, an airline.

And that brand, according to new data published here in Politico Magazine for the first time, is taking a major hit in the wake of his presidential campaign.

As Trump the candidate has ascended, hitting the top of the polls and staying there thanks to a series of controversial statements and a groundswell of Republican populist support, the opposite has happened to Trump the brand: Among the people Trump’s business depends on—the consumer making over $100,000 a year—the value of the Trump name is collapsing.

A December survey of American consumer opinion, fielded by the BAV Consulting division of advertising and marketing giant Young & Rubicam (and the largest and longest running study of brands in the world), found that since Donald Trump’s run for president, the Trump brand has lost the confidence of the people who can afford to stay at one of his hotels, play at one of his country clubs or purchase a home in one of his developments.

It is also rapidly losing its association with the gilded traits Trump has long promoted as the essence of his business.

The wealthiest respondents in the BAV survey—those with incomes over $150,000—judge Trump the harshest of any income bracket.

In this group, as measured by BAV’s consumer opinion index, Trump’s reputation for being “obliging” and “upper class” has declined by more than 50 percent since the outset of the campaign, followed by “leader” (with a 41 percent decline) and “prestigious” (down by 39 percent).

The next lower income level—households making between $100,000 and $150,000—wasn’t much kinder, with a 56 percent decline for “obliging,” a 45 percent decline in “prestigious” and a 38 percent drop for “upper class.”

Bookings at Trump Hotels Plummet

Bookings at Trump Hotels are down big time: they have decreased 59% compared to the same period last year on (travel search engine) Hipmunk.

It seems that customers willing to spend $500 a night on a Trump Hotel room may not be fans of Trump the political candidate.

While overall Hipmunk hotel bookings have been on the rise year-over-year, that has not been the case with bookings of Trump Hotels.

The chart below compares the percentage of bookings on Hipmunk for Trump Hotels’ most popular locations in 2015 (before his campaign received much attention) to the percentage of bookings in 2016 (as the campaign receives ample media attention).

Prior to his political rise, Trump Hotels were quite popular, garnering 1.7% of all bookings on Hipmunk in the major cities where Trump Hotels are located.

But in the past three months, Trump Hotels have been much less popular. Bookings are down 59% versus the the same three month period in the prior year.


In New York City and Vegas, Trump Hotels’ share of each city’s total hotel bookings dropped more than 70 percent.

Even in Atlantic City, where Trump Hotels claim the highest percentage of a city’s total hotel bookings, Trump Hotels took a major hit year-over-year.

The Trump Taj Mahal’s share of bookings is down 17% in the first quarter of this year.

Trump Delegate Says Current US Leaders May Need to Be "Killed"

Last December, Donald Trump's presidential campaign approved David Riden to be a delegate candidate on the Tennessee ballot, and when the state held its primary in March, voters selected Riden to go to the Republican National Convention.

Riden told Mother Jones in an interview that US leaders who violate the Constitution may have to be done away with: "The polite word is 'eliminated,'" he said. "The harsh word is 'killed.'"

A different Trump delegate wrote an article, obtained by Mother Jones, that was published in the 1990s by a group opposing the federal government.

Collins A. Bailey of Waldorf, Maryland, who was approved by Trump as a delegate from that state's 5th Congressional District, wrote an article in 1995 that appeared in the newsletter of a Patriot group called United Sovereigns of America.

An accompanying article in the newsletter, urged readers to "stockpile food, water, guns and ammunition," and to "never surrender your weapons."

And that delegate's son—also a Trump delegate—was arrested recently on federal weapons and child pornography charges.

Inglorious Bastard » 01 Jun 2016 3:15 pm » wrote:his mother is all white. A black man with an all white mother.....you know she was mentally unstable and an unfit mother don't you. The father only saw his bastard once in the bastard's lifetime. No president ever had such a creep as a father. Thankfully both those parents died young....hopefully that bitch's cancer was inherited.

TRUMP is not a bastard, very legitimate.

I truly believe a BASTARD is illigetimate to live. I like legitimacy. Making a bastard is a sin.

Annoyed Liberall » 03 Jun 2016 1:42 pm » wrote: My grandchildren have an all white mother and a black father. She is neither mentally unstable or an unfit mother. They have a very happy family. So, **** you. That statement eroded a lot of respect I have for you.

Yet bastard is in your name, maybe you should take your own advice...

golfboy » 03 Jun 2016 1:52 pm » wrote: Your attack on IB doesn't change the fact that Obama's mother WAS mentally unstable.

Annoyed Liberall » 03 Jun 2016 1:42 pm » wrote:
My grandchildren have an all white mother and a black father. She is neither mentally unstable or an unfit mother. They have a very happy family. So, **** you. That statement eroded a lot of respect I have for you.

Yet bastard is in your name, maybe you should take your own advice...

Inglorious Bastard » 03 Jun 2016 2:12 pm » wrote:I was not talking about your family here.
I was talking about how mentally unfit his mother was.

Inglorious Bastard » 03 Jun 2016 2:12 pm » wrote:She could not even raise her bastard. How unfit is that? Unfit enough to not even conceive her bastard. Irresponsible slut is all she was.
Look at the father. He is so repulsively ugly to begin with, glad his bastard inherited his looks. A lazy evil commie is all he was. Sperm donating *** hole who only saw his bastard boy once......WHAT A DADDY.
I realize the gross ugly truth, especially the awful way I say it. But it is the truth. If I lose respect from someone for saying the truth, so be it.
This is not any personal attack here so you may apologize. Lol
I am proud to be a Bastard, even though my lineage is 100% legitimate.

Annoyed Liberall » 03 Jun 2016 2:08 pm » wrote:I am not trying to change anything. I wouldn't call it an attack. I would call it calling him out for being a snot encrusted pigeon humper who doesn't think before he opens his dick scrubber.

Misty » 03 Jun 2016 3:42 pm » wrote: You were also talking about the race of his mother and his father.

Your words have consequences IB.
If anyone owes an apology it's you.

No one knows what Donald Trump did at Wharton.

It seems like Trump managed to not only stay unnoticed by the administration but by his classmates as well. The Daily News reports that none of the students that attended Wharton between 1966 and 1968 have any recollection of Trump; he was only a student there for two years, after transferring from Fordham University in New York City.

“He was not first in the class. He was not known on campus for any reason at all,” his Wharton classmate Nancy Hano told Daily News.

Another classmate, Stanton Koppel, told the publication, “I have no memory of him whatsoever.”
Salon also looked into the matter back in May, and found nothing that would support Trump’s claims that he was an honor student:

Inglorious Bastard » 03 Jun 2016 4:05 pm » wrote: I have already remedied that.
In answer to your other question. Why didn't his mom raise him? I take that as a sure sign of being unstable. However I will explore further.