Trump creating more jobs and doing great deals! http://www.pressofatlanticcity.com/...cle_d297274e-59a7-11e6-962b-4b2234e7959b.html ATLANTIC CITY – Trump Taj Mahal is set to close its doors after Labor Day weekend, according to a Wednesday statement from Tony Rodio, President and Chief Executive Officer of Tropicana Entertainment. Rodio said the ongoing Unite Here Local 54 strike played a role in making the decision. “Currently the Taj is losing multi-millions a month, and now with this strike we see no path to profitability,” Rodio said in the statement. “Unfortunately, we’ve reached the point where we have will to have to close the Taj after Labor Day weekend and intend to send WARN notices to before this weekend.” More than 1,000 cooks, housekeepers, bellmen, bartenders, cocktail servers and other service workers at Taj Mahal have been on strike since July 1. The strike at the casino-hotel follows union agreements with Tropicana Atlantic City and Caesars Entertainment, which owns Caesars Atlantic City, Harrah’s Resort and Bally’s Atlantic City.
Is this some kind of bad joke? I wish. While I'm not a religious person at all, if Trump somehow wins this election, God help us all.
Trump sold his share in the business in the last bankruptcy crisis. Per wikipedia: Trump Entertainment Resorts filed for bankruptcy on September 10, 2014,[30] and announced plans to close the Taj Mahal on November 13 if the casino did not get concessions from its unions.[31] A sister property, the Trump Plaza did close in 2014.[2] Workers from the casino marched to Mayor Don Guardian's office on the morning of November 3, 2014 to ask him to reconsider granting concessions, which the casino said were necessary to remain open. About 1,000 employees signed a petition calling on the mayor and other officials "to do everything possible" to keep the casino open. At the time, four of twelve casinos in Atlantic City had closed and Trump Taj Mahal would have been the fifth if it were to close.[32] On November 14, 2014, Trump Entertainment Resorts announced that the casino would shut down in December unless its main union, UNITE HERE, dropped its appeal of a court-ordered cost-savings package, which had effectively cancelled the workers' health insurance and pension coverage.[33] However, it was revealed that the closing was to happen because it has not received the state and local tax breaks it sought.[34] In filing a revised reorganization plan in Delaware bankruptcy court, Trump Entertainment Resorts said its board had approved a shutdown of the casino by December 12, 2014. The shutdown date was later pushed back to December 20. On December 18, two days before the scheduled closure, UNITE HERE reached a deal with Trump Entertainment Resorts that saved the Taj from closing. The same day, billionaire Carl Icahn committed $20 million in financing for the Taj.[35] In February 2015, the U.S. Department of the Treasury's Financial Crimes Enforcement Network settled an investigation of Trump Taj Mahal with the assessment of a $10 million civil fine for "significant and long-standing money laundering violations" which were described as "willful and repeated" contraventions of the record-keeping and reporting requirements of the Bank Secrecy Act.[36][37] The casino agreed to periodic external audits to comply with anti-money laundering statutes,[37] and admitted to multiple violations as part of its settlement.[38] The U.S. Treasury made note of casino violations dating back to 1998, when Trump Taj Mahal paid a $477,700 fine for violating currency transaction requirements, as well as violations in 2003, 2010, and in 2012, for which the company was "repeatedly warned". Trump Taj Mahal was "far from meeting" standards required to protect the U.S. financial system "from exploitation from criminals, terrorists, and other bad actors", the Treasury said in a press release.[37] In February 2016, Trump Entertainment Resorts exited bankruptcy and became a subsidiary of Icahn Enterprises. The casino retained the name "Trump Taj Mahal", though Donald Trump no longer held any ownership stake.[39] Shortly thereafter, an agreement was announced for the Taj Mahal to be managed by another Icahn affiliate, Tropicana Entertainment.[40] Icahn also stated he would withhold a planned $100-million investment into the property if New Jersey approved casinos in the northern region of the state.[41]
<blockquote class="twitter-tweet" data-lang="en"><p lang="en" dir="ltr">Mike Pence "strongly" endorses Paul Ryan in primary race <a href="https://t.co/1FHaqdMi2b">https://t.co/1FHaqdMi2b</a> via <a href="https://twitter.com/danielatlarge">@danielatlarge</a></p>— TIMEPolitics (@TIMEPolitics) <a href="https://twitter.com/TIMEPolitics/status/760912335338872832">August 3, 2016</a></blockquote> <script async src="//platform.twitter.com/widgets.js" charset="utf-8"></script> Even Trump's VP doesn't support Trump's behavior.
BBC News Asks: After a week of controversy, who is Trump feuding with now? ---- The world is watching with mouths agape.
But, really, it is pretty much a technicality. Trump sold his interest earlier this year. And he had already run the place into the ground by then, complete with a federal money laundering investigation that ended with a $10 million civil settlement!
http://abcnews.go.com/Politics/senior-gop-officials-exploring-options-trump-drops/story?id=41089609 Senior GOP Officials Exploring Options if Trump Drops Out Republican officials are exploring how to handle a scenario that would be unthinkable in a normal election year: What would happen if the party's presidential nominee dropped out? ABC News has learned that senior party officials are so frustrated — and confused — by Donald Trump's erratic behavior that they are exploring how to replace him on the ballot if he drops out. So how would it work? First, Trump would have to voluntarily exit the race. Officials say there is no mechanism for forcing him to withdraw his nomination. (Trump has not given any indications that he no longer wants to be his party's nominee.) Then it would be up to the 168 members of the Republican National Committee to choose a successor, though the process is complicated. One Republican legal expert has advised party officials that, for practical reasons, Trump would have to drop out by early September to give the party enough time to choose his replacement and get the next nominee's name on the ballot in enough states to win. Here is what the RNC's bylaws say about filling a vacancy on a presidential ticket: Rule No. 9: Filling Vacancies in Nominations (a) The Republican National Committee is hereby authorized and empowered to fill any and all vacancies which may occur by reason of death, declination or otherwise of the Republican candidate for president of the United States or the Republican candidate for vice president of the United States, as nominated by the national convention, or the Republican National Committee may reconvene the national convention for the purpose of filling any such vacancies. (b) In voting under this rule, the Republican National Committee members representing any state shall be entitled to cast the same number of votes as said state was entitled to cast at the national convention. (c) In the event that the members of the Republican National Committee from any state shall not be in agreement in the casting of votes hereunder, the votes of such state shall be divided equally, including fractional votes, among the members of the Republican National Committee present or voting by proxy. (d) No candidate shall be chosen to fill any such vacancy except upon receiving a majority of the votes entitled to be cast in the election. <blockquote class="twitter-tweet" data-lang="en"><p lang="en" dir="ltr">Trump adviser <a href="https://twitter.com/KellyannePolls">@KellyannePolls</a>: "I would push back on any formal report that the candidate is going to leave the race."</p>— Phil Mattingly (@Phil_Mattingly) <a href="https://twitter.com/Phil_Mattingly/status/760854062757769217">August 3, 2016</a></blockquote> <script async src="//platform.twitter.com/widgets.js" charset="utf-8"></script> Not very emphatically shooting down the speculation with that response. <blockquote class="twitter-tweet" data-lang="en"><p lang="en" dir="ltr">longtime ally of Paul Manafort, Trump's campaign manager: "Manafort not challenging Trump anymore. Mailing it in. Staff suicidal."</p>— John Harwood (@JohnJHarwood) <a href="https://twitter.com/JohnJHarwood/status/760633940151443457">August 3, 2016</a></blockquote> <script async src="//platform.twitter.com/widgets.js" charset="utf-8"></script>
I beat you by about 4 minutes. There's a thread on this now. ;-)- The leaders of the Republican Party are freaking out.
OK, when is the last time that a party has "explored" whether it might replace its official nominee? If this reflects what Trump hears from his supporters, I don't think he's gonna voluntarily drop out: <blockquote class="twitter-video" data-lang="en"><p lang="en" dir="ltr">"Do you know what it was like to tell Mickey Mantle how to hit?" <a href="https://twitter.com/jrandolphevans">@jrandolphevans</a> on criticism of "HR King" <a href="https://twitter.com/hashtag/Trump?src=hash">#Trump</a> <a href="https://t.co/snWp0qq4GH">https://t.co/snWp0qq4GH</a></p>— CNN Newsroom (@CNNnewsroom) <a href="https://twitter.com/CNNnewsroom/status/760911614396825600">August 3, 2016</a></blockquote> <script async src="//platform.twitter.com/widgets.js" charset="utf-8"></script>
LOL, I beat you both by about two hours... http://bbs.clutchfans.net/showpost.php?p=10645610&postcount=70
Kudos! You beat both of us. - At least there's a thread about it now, and I do think it deserves a thread. The possibility certainly exists, in my humble opinion, based on Trump's behavior the last couple of days. He's becoming increasingly unhinged.
More of Hollande's comments: France’s President Says Trump’s ‘Excesses’ Make People ‘Want to Retch’ PARIS — President François Hollande of France has said that the “excesses” of Donald J. Trump made people “want to retch,” adding a scathing international voice to the chorus of those criticizing the Republican presidential nominee. Speaking on Tuesday to the French Presidential Press Association in Paris, Mr. Hollande noted the worldwide importance of the American campaign, calling it a “global election,” and said a victory for Mr. Trump could herald a shift to conservative candidates in other countries. Mr. Hollande, whose comments were later reported by Agence France-Presse and Reuters, expressed particular dismay at the attacks on “a soldier, the memory of a soldier,” referring to Mr. Trump’s continued criticism of the parents of Capt. Humayun Khan, a Muslim and an American soldier who was killed in 2004 in Iraq. The comments from Mr. Trump have prompted widespread condemnation in the United States and have led several prominent Republicans to distance themselves from the party’s nominee. On Tuesday, President Obama urged Republican leaders to withdraw their support for Mr. Trump’s candidacy, calling him “unfit to serve” as the next president. Mr. Hollande said “the excesses end up making you feel like you want to retch,” and he called Mr. Trump’s comments on the Khan family “hurtful and humiliating.” It was not the first time that Mr. Hollande has lashed out against the Republican candidate. After the killing of a priest in Normandy last week, he reacted angrily to Mr. Trump’s assessment that “France is no longer France.” “France will always be France,” Mr. Hollande retorted. “It never gives up, because it still bears ideals, values, principles that are recognized worldwide, and it’s when you lower your standards that you are no longer what you are. That’s something that may happen to others, on the other side of the Atlantic.” On Tuesday, Mr. Hollande said, “If the Americans choose Trump, it will have consequences because the American election is a global election.” Mr. Hollande is expected to run in the French presidential election next year, although he has not officially announced his candidacy, despite dismal approval ratings as he struggles to fulfill his promises to significantly lower unemployment and to keep the country safe even as it has emerged as a target for terrorists. The prospect of Mr. Trump winning the election or significantly swaying the global political debate rightward is especially worrying for Mr. Hollande, who is facing strong challenges from the French center-right Republican party, led by former President Nicolas Sarkozy, and from the far-right National Front, led by Marine Le Pen. Asked about the influence of a Trump victory on the French election, Mr. Hollande said that the response could go either way, by steering the presidential contest to the right, or, on the contrary, by leading to a “correction.” “The American campaign signals themes that are then found in the French campaign,” Mr. Hollande said. ---- There are serious global consequences to having a demagogue like Trump just running for president, let alone winning the presidency.
Republican says Trump is a loud mouth dick on CNN. Anderson Cooper doesn't even flinch. LOL <iframe width="560" height="315" src="https://www.youtube.com/embed/O11YB5kr5eI" frameborder="0" allowfullscreen></iframe>
Is it possible Trump ran this whole campaign to raise his brand among the poor billies, never actually wanting the responsibilities of being President? This way, after he loses, he can continue to sell his cheap ass hats/shirts/etc to the poor billies and make a killing.
