The Trump Brand Is So Toxic That His Company Is Now Planning Hotels Without His Name on Them

[demmiblue]

Source: Slate

The best thing about Donald Trump, Hillary Clinton said on Sunday night, may be his children.

The business development team at Trump Hotels appears to agree. As Politico pointed out on Friday, at the end of September the company, led by Trump and his three oldest children, announced its new hotel brand would be called Scion. That means “descendant of a notable family,” noted the press release.

What’s really notable, of course, is that Scion is the rare—and possibly singular—venture of the Trump commercial empire that does not wear the blustering patriarch’s name like a badge.

If this does not quite signal the Trump Organization's retreat from the scandal, lies, and bigotry that have characterized Donald Trump’s presidential campaign, it does appear to represent a hedge of business against politics. And Scion may be an early indicator of how Trump the brand—which birthed Trump the politician—might wind up feeling, and managing, the backlash.

Read more: http://www.slate.com/blogs/moneybox/2016/10/14/the_trump_organization_is_planning_hotels_without_the_trump_name.html?wpsrc=sh_all_dt_tw_top

[Foggyhill]

1. I think he'll have to sell his ownership share

Or go immediately bankrupt, it will happen anyway eventually

[NNadir]

2. In a week where Bob Dylan won the Nobel Prize, I hope this awful family will be...

...living the lyrics of "Like a Rolling Stone."

[TonyPDX]

3. That's gonna leave a mark.

His ego won't stand for it.

[Divine Discontent]

4. he's going to be batshit nuts (he's not quite there, yet) by the time all of this finishes up

After he loses the election and all this legal stuff goes through, I wouldn't be surprised he is put on so much medication that he retreats from public life (thankfully). He's no spring chicken and all of this hyper aggressive BS from him is going to take a toll on him psychologically sooner or later. He's unhinged...

[TonyPDX]

5. Agreed.

[malaise]

6. Going to be

He's long past batshit nuts

[Divine Discontent]

8. he's not quite there until he starts slinging his feces at reporters

though, I'm sure he will by the end of the month!

[malaise]

9. Although the proverbial shit has long

hit the fan

[Divine Discontent]

10. good one! :)

[Stellar]

7. Chicago City Councilors Want to Strip Trump’s Name Off Honorary Street Sign

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Chicago has streets named after Italian dictators, but it’s Donald Trump’s honorary street sign that’s “triggering” some city officials.

Eight Chicago alderman, entrusted with running the nation’s third-largest city, dominated a City Council meeting with a request to have Trump stripped of an honorary street sign. The sign is downtown on a segment of Wabash Street, near Chicago Trump Tower. It reads “Trump Plaza.”

http://heatst.com/politics/chicago-city-councilors-want-to-strip-trumps-name-off-honorary-street-sign/

[Paladin]

12. Trump, Scion, whatever.

I'm avoiding his properties like the plague for the remainder of my life. And I'm advising all the Hillary voters I know to do likewise.