The New Protesters Defying Donald Trump: His Customers

[babylonsister]

Hit him in the pocketbook!


The New Protesters Defying Donald Trump: His Customers

By MICHAEL BARBARO
OCT. 17, 2016


Morrie Gold is not a placard-waving political protester. He is a 69-year-old retired doctor in Pennsylvania.

But he recently participated in a quiet act of rebellion: He and 11 golfing buddies canceled their annual trip to a Florida resort owned by Donald J. Trump to express their disgust with his remarks about women, immigrants and minorities.

“For me,” Mr. Gold said, “it’s an ethical statement.”

Political demonstrations are alien to MBut when friends invited the 60-year-old and her husbargaret Riordan, too. “I’m just an old, white lady from Illinois,” she said. and to dinner inside Chicago’s Trump International Hotel and Tower, a one-woman boycott was born.

“Pick another place,” Ms. Riordan firmly told her friends. “By crossing that threshold, I’m saying Donald Trump’s O.K. I won’t do that.”

The reservation was canceled.

Across the country, voters alarmed by the tenor of Mr. Trump’s campaign and the emerging accounts of his personal conduct are engaging in spontaneous, unorganized and inconspicuous acts of protest that take direct aim at perhaps his most prized possession: his brand name.

In more than two dozen interviews, they described creative methods of punishing his economic empire and expunging the once-esteemed reminders of him from their lives, closets, golf bags and bookshelves over the past few months. They have thrown out — or cut up — Trump ties, called off stays at Trump hotels, even stopped imbibing Trump wines.

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http://www.nytimes.com/2016/10/18/us/politics/donald-trump-brand-reaction.html?hpw&rref=politics&action=click&pgtype=Homepage&module=well-region&region=bottom-well&WT.nav=bottom-well&_r=1

[nini]

1. This is my hope

that he will be destroyed financially. Completely destroyed.

[LeftRant]

2. Yes. Leave nothing for those kids too. Reset that whole family back to square 1 so they can learn

what REAL Americans have to deal with.

[nini]

8. Definitely..those little snots need to learn what it's like to worry about how to pay the rent

brats

[Dark n Stormy Knight]

23. That will never happen.

There will always be plenty of rich RWers ready to give them high-paying, relatively easy work. Consulting, speaking engagements, etc. Not to mention the poor folks who will contribute to their GoFundMes and similar.

[nini]

32. I know

I can dream though lol

[mercuryblues]

27. worry about paying rent

hell I want them to go to a soup kitchen for their next meal.


I don't think they have any clue how broke their really Dad is. that is why they leech onto him. Not outta love, but to get their share of the "inheritance".

[volstork]

5. I'm with you.

I hope he becomes a toxic pariah that no one will touch. He's already alienated almost all legitimate businesses in the US. The ash heap of history is even too good for him...

[MsMAC]

19. +1

[calimary]

20. YES. Mine, too, nini! I hope his brand will be so tarnished that it becomes completely worthless.

[uponit7771]

30. +1, I wouldn't wish bad on anyone but in this case the bad coming QUICKLY would be a lesson for

... those who try the same.

[central scrutinizer]

3. Probably hidden cameras in the bedroom

And bathroom so Trump can troll for 10s

[Stuart G]

4. Thanks for posting....It is true, lots of people will protest Trump this way..

In the long run, he will see a HUGE!!!!!!!!!!!!!!! downturn in his ...profits...People do not like his tone and attitude toward women and others. They will show their feelings in the one way that will hurt Trump the most...and it will be ugly...very ugly..for him and his family....and he deserves it...

[patsimp]

6. we should never buy a trump product again.

[dalton99]

7. Friends don't let friends give money to anything Trump

[calimary]

21. Welcome to DU, dalton99!

That's a good one!

"Friends don't let friends give money to anything Trump!" YES!!!

[tanyev]

9. And you know the people cheering him at his rallies are not his customer base.

[DK504]

17. Trumps Chinese ties

They could never afford his crap. Rubes.

The LPGA is trying to pull out of a tournament scheduled in the near future.

[world wide wally]

10. I have never spent a cent on any Trump product and I never will

[Fahrenthold451]

11. Mark Cuban Says Bernie Madoff 'Has a Better Brand' than Donald Trump

http://fortune.com/2016/10/14/donald-trump-business-over-mark-cuban/

In online travel company Hipmunk found that “bookings to Trump hotels fell more than 50% in the first half of the year,” according to CNBC.

[barbtries]

12. happy to say i have never supported trump in any way.

never watched his show. never paid to stay at a place of his or buy something with his brand name. the closest i came was in 2013, when i visited my sister at her hotel room in vegas. and i felt slimy at that.

[anamandujano]

13. Good.

[NoGoodNamesLeft]

14. Too bad that the majority of his followers can't afford to be his cutomers

If he lost everything that would be very fitting.

[NBachers]

15. Let me know when the wine hits two bucks a bottle.

[ohheckyeah]

16. I live in VA and only recognize two names.

[Hamlette]

18. My husband instructs cab drivers to not so much as pass a Trump building when in NYC

which is odd for my husband. He's a reliable Dem but he'd never be caught at a protest and tries to ban political talk when we get together with my son. Doesn't work. We went to Thailand and the ONLY English TV channel in our hotel was Fox. We'd play this game, how long can we watch before one of us goes crazy and turns it off. He would leave the room. We'd make it 5 minutes at most.

[calimary]

22. Did you complain to the manager about that? Not even CNN? SHEESH!

[Big_K]

24. Don't you think the kids are thinking about

taking control, and maybe having daddy declared incompetent?

Hope springs eternal.

[Doodley]

26. Trump's brand is going down the drain now, but after the election

it will be in the sewer because he will be blamed by most Republicans, the true depths of his shady dealings will come out and he will be relentlessly pursued by a barrage of lawsuits.

[Yo_Mama_Been_Loggin]

28. Don't I've ever bought anything from Trump

[lindysalsagal]

29. Sure as hell most of his followers can't afford his hotels. Maybe 5% or so, I'm guessing.

3 weeks and he's out of our lives.

[Neema]

33. For the most part, the people to whom he appeals are not the people staying in his hotels.

The poor folks he's preyed upon, using their fear and ignorance to bolster his bid, cannot afford to stay in his hotels. And his uber rich friends that are as entitled and disgusting as he is are probably staying at even nicer hotels.

I've stayed at one of his hotels. I'm not rich by any means but I have enough disposable income to stay at decent hotels when I travel. It was many years ago, and the hotel itself was excellent. The staff was friendly and accommodating and the room was gorgeous. Clearly he had nothing to do with the interior design, based on what I've seen of his tacky-ass homes.

But now? Never. Wouldn't stay in a Trump hotel if the only other option was sleeping in my car. And I've had this discussion with many of those in my circle of friends and family who love to travel. Many have stayed at Trump properties in the past but wouldn't even consider it now.

He'll keep making money hand over fist off the poor suckers who will watch his bloviating television channel, but I think many of his other business ventures will fail. He's used to that though. He'll just declare bankruptcy and stiff all the people who actually do the work.

[Lifelong Protester]

34. I live in WI and feel the same about

Kwik Trip~ I pointedly leave my "cents off gas"coupon at the grocery store that hands them out.
Sargento Cheese

Major Walker supporters.

I don't shop at Walmart either. I'd do without first.

I hope the anti-Drumpf feelings continue after the election.

[Motley13]

35. He can move in with Putin