Onlookers cheer as 'Trump Place' is pried from condo building

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Source: Washington Post

Politics

Onlookers cheer as 'Trump Place' is pried from condo building

By Philip Bump
October 18 at 3:23 PM

NEW YORK -- News that residents at 200 Riverside Boulevard had voted to remove the the words "TRUMP PLACE" from their building on Manhattan's Upper West Side prompted Greg Schlotthauer, 51, to hop on his bike, don his anti-Trump button and head up to the scene to watch the action unfold. ... He arrived before the bucket truck that would carry out the task. In the cold, whipping wind, he and other spectators watched as the crews got to work. ... "Yay!" Schlotthauer hollered as they pulled one of the letters of Trump's last name off of the building. "Thank you!"
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Richie Herschenfeld, 57, lives in 200 Riverside and works as a real estate broker. ... "I've shown an apartment right now in 220" -- 220 Riverside, one of only two buildings on the street that still bear Trump's name -- "which is also a Trump building and people have shown up, totally wasting my time, saying that they couldn't live there anyway," he said. "Because of the name."
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After prying off each letter Thursday, the workers placed them on a balcony overlooking the front entrance. Once all of the letters were removed, they were lowered to the ground and transferred onto a truck, fate to be determined.

Once the letters were gone, "TRUMP PLACE" could still be read on the front of the building, clear as day. Removing the letters revealed clean patches in each letter's shape, the way a picture removed from its hook reveals an unfaded patch of wallpaper. Ten clean patches of concrete, one for each letter, last seen in daylight when the name "Trump" meant little more than "real-estate magnate."
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Philip Bump is a correspondent for The Washington Post based in New York. Before joining The Post in 2014, he led politics coverage for the Atlantic Wire. Follow https://twitter.com/pbump

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A small crowd gathered to gawk as the words "Trump Place" were removed from a condo bldg in Manhattan, after residents voted to cast off @realDonaldTrump's brand. @pbump on the scene.

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[Achilleaze]

1. "Hip hip hooray!" - Honest & Decent American Citizens

[SWBTATTReg]

2. They should raise money on this, sell tickets to these events for a good cause. Why not? NT

[bullwinkle428]

3. Lay the letters on the ground, so everyone can get the chance to

stomp on and beat them...would be incredibly cathartic!

[SWBTATTReg]

4. I would think so, and they could resell the letters again and again and again...it would be ...

great, I think. All the proceeds would go to a good cause.

[Hermit-The-Prog]

16. restrooms in Central Park

Could NYC plumbing handle it if each letter were installed in an oversized urinal? Make 'em pay urinals and it should be enough to maintain the whole of Central Park.

[dbackjon]

18. At least the "P's"

[lagomorph777]

5. Suggested uses for "TRUMP PLACE" letters:

Rectal Pump
Pamper Cult
Carpet Lump
Cat Plumper
React Plump
Clamp Erupt
Talcum Prep
Talc Pumper
Cramp Letup
Pact Rumple
Trample Cup
Mapper Cult
Lap Crumpet
Apt Crumple
A Crept Plum
Cramp Let Up
Crap Melt Up
Pact El Rump
Ma Cult Prep

[Doreen]

8. OK, I my day actually felt better

when I saw news coverage of the trump sign being taken down. Now you have made me laugh about it and I can not stop.

[lagomorph777]

10. Anagram gold.

[DinahMoeHum]

11. Love the first anagram.

Wouldn't it be a pisser if someone actually did that in ther dead of night for everybody to guffaw over the next morning?

[lagomorph777]

12. Would make a great art installation to let viewers rearrange the letters.

Mount them on tracks in the lobby or something.

[onethatcares]

15. I needed that.

"Carpet lump" hahahahahahahahahahahahahahahahahaha hi: :

Thanks

[displacedtexan]

19. Well, now you've done it! Trump's new job after he's booted from DC...

He can get work as a cat plumper for the YouTube Channel. There are even enough cat videos for his whole worthless family to find jobs. Plus, all of the cat owners will be there to supervise.

[lagomorph777]

23. And he can serve "P.U. Crap Melt" at Lard-A-Gogo

[Blue Owl]

26. No Surprise "Rectal Pump" is at the top of the list

[muntrv]

6. That will raise the property value.

[louis-t]

7. They have to acid wash the concrete to remove the imprint

of the letters. Maybe power washing will do it.

[lagomorph777]

9. There's a team of Saudis who are really good at getting stains out.

[mobeau69]

14. Fast painters too.

Had two coats on faster than you can say "rechargeable bone saw".

[KY_EnviroGuy]

13. Trump's EPA may not like that idea.

Wasting good pollution, ya know......

My gosh, that's quite a layer of crud on that building. Diesel particulate, I imagine......

[forgotmylogin]

22. CHAUNCY! FETCH THE SANDBLASTER POST-HASTE!

[ck4829]

25. Indeed

[BigmanPigman]

17. Removing his name is cathartic.

It is like seeing statues of dictators being torn down after their dictatorships have crumbled after murdering millions of their own citizens.

[FakeNoose]

20. Now they can raise the rent and fill the place up

[ffr]

21. Make urinals from the recycled material and put a label on them explaining the metal's history.

[ck4829]

24. K&R