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NCTraveler

(30,481 posts)
Tue Feb 21, 2017, 08:51 AM Feb 2017

Trump needs to build a wall around West Palm Beach, FL.

"When West Palm Beach sends it people to Mar-A-Lago, they're not sending their best. They're not sending you. They're sending people that have lots of problems, and they're bringing those problems with us. They're bringing drugs. They're bringing crime. They're rapists. And some, I assume, are good people," Trump *Alternative Fact

Mar-A-Lago's Neighbor Has Same Crime Rate as Chicago

The city of West Palm Beach, which sits just across the Intracoastal Waterway from Trump's palatial Mar-a-Lago Resort, had a violent crime rate in 2015 that was equal to that of the Windy City

Chicago is the poster city for violent crime to President Trump, but he's got some mean streets right in his Florida backyard, NBC News reported.

The city of West Palm Beach, which sits just across the Intracoastal Waterway from Trump's palatial Mar-a-Lago Resort — aka the Winter White House — on exclusive Palm Beach, had a violent crime rate in 2015 that was equal to that of the Windy City, according to federal crime records.

There were 23 homicides in a city of just 104,919 residents. And the rate of violent crime, which also includes rapes, robberies and aggravated assaults, was 9 for every 1,000 residents — the same as the far bigger Chicago, records show.


http://www.nbcchicago.com/news/national-international/Mar-A-Lagos-Neighbor-Has-Same-Crime-Rate-as-Chicago-414158493.html

Trump is constantly calling out Chicago. There is a reason for him doing so and it has little to do with crime. It is about race and fomenting hatred among his uneducated minions.

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Trump needs to build a wall around West Palm Beach, FL. (Original Post) NCTraveler Feb 2017 OP
The MSM needs to get a reaction from Trump if they ever get a chance. nt oasis Feb 2017 #1
its about how we took down his honorary street sign. mopinko Feb 2017 #2
I'd be more than happy if they put a wall around the town of Palm Beach... Tommy_Carcetti Feb 2017 #3
I just thought "Chicago" was code for everything his base hates, Unions, liberal city, blacks. putitinD Feb 2017 #4
+1 NCTraveler Feb 2017 #5

mopinko

(69,984 posts)
2. its about how we took down his honorary street sign.
Tue Feb 21, 2017, 09:22 AM
Feb 2017

probably to keep from having to replace once someone got the bright idea that it would make a nice souvenir.
or set them on fire.
but still, it is gone.

Tommy_Carcetti

(43,145 posts)
3. I'd be more than happy if they put a wall around the town of Palm Beach...
Tue Feb 21, 2017, 09:48 AM
Feb 2017

....and let it float off to sea.

Seriously, that place is a creepy, creepy place. I've been there and the rich people will literally refuse to look at you if they don't feel you are worthy enough for their standards.

They once opposed a Starbucks in Palm Beach because they felt it was too beneath their standards and would bring in "undesired elements." Seriously. A Starbucks.

putitinD

(1,551 posts)
4. I just thought "Chicago" was code for everything his base hates, Unions, liberal city, blacks.
Fri Feb 24, 2017, 03:19 PM
Feb 2017

I may be wrong.

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