Donald Trump evidently never heard the old adage about people who live in glass houses not throwing stones. His most recent racist out-lashing was directed at Elijah Cummings, imploring Cummings to go back to his “rat infested district” and clean it up. He should take his own advice. That comment, coming from a man who keeps the health inspectors hopping, issuing violations on his own rodent-infested and filthy properties, is the epitome of irony. Following is a description of Trump’s New York eateries. I would go to McDonald’s too, if I owned a place like this. Daily News:
Mice in the kitchen, filthy food prep areas and broken sewage systems are on the list of recent stomach-turning health code violations at a number of Trump-branded restaurants in the city, the Daily News has learned.
Health inspections at Trump properties from Midtown Manhattan to the Bronx’s Ferry Point reveal the President’s eponymous company still struggles to keep its day-to-day operations clean — though similar infractions have been reported for years.
Violations at the President’s crown jewel and Manhattan residence — Trump Tower on Fifth Avenue — are perhaps the most gag-inducing.
City Department of Health inspectors visited the tower’s cafe and grill on July 11, 2018 and found “evidence of mice or live mice” in and around the kitchen, according to records that haven’t previously been reported. The inspectors categorized the violation as “critical.” […]
The Trump Tower eatery has been written up for various health code violations every year since 2014, including sightings of “live roaches” in 2016 and “filth flies” in 2017. But inspectors have not — until now — found mice tracks at the posh establishment.
Mice tracks. Are those tiny mice footprints in the dirt, or racing facilities, where the mice roar around at top speed? In little mouse soap boxes, perhaps? Nah. It couldn’t be anything amusing or wholesome if it’s in a Trump facility. Think depravity, and you’ve got it.
If you love that image, here’s another for you. Maybe the MAGATs will appreciate this. Jared Kushner rents apartments to people with real maggots — and raw sewage, ala daddy-in-law. ProPublica:
The worst troubles may have been those described in a 2013 court case involving Jasmine Cox’s unit at Cove Village. They began with the bedroom ceiling, which started leaking one day. Then maggots started coming out of the living room carpet. Then raw sewage started flowing out of the kitchen sink. “It sounded like someone turned a pool upside down,” Cox told me. “I heard the water hitting the floor and I panicked. I got out of bed and the sink is black and gray, it’s pooling out of the sink and the house smells terrible.” […]
Jamesson showed me three large holes in the walls of the townhouse, which Westminster charged her and her fiancé, Keith Riggs, $150 to fix in October but had not yet repaired. “Every time I ask about drywall they say, ‘Oh, well, we only have one drywall person,’” Riggs told me. There was also black mold spreading around the bathtub, a large brown stain and crack on the wall adjacent to the stove and a gap in the bathroom skylight that allowed in rain and snow. Jamesson told me that the refrigerator hadn’t worked for more than a month before being replaced; her family had lived on canned food and boxed milk.
At Essex Park, east of the city, Marquita Parmely, the truck driver, told me she had a mouse infestation that was severe enough that her 12-year-old daughter recently found one in her bed. Parmely also has a 2-year-old with asthma, which is aggravated by allergens in mice droppings. She moved her own bed and other furniture away from the walls to dissuade mice, kept the family’s laundry in tote bags after mice started appearing in the hamper and vacuumed twice a day. Her neighbor told me it took weeks for staff members to replace a rear window that had been shot out by kids with a BB gun.
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Meanwhile, the people of Baltimore are not taking Trump’s twitter torpedo to Cummings lying down. The Baltimore Sun penned a scorching editorial entitled, “Better To Have A Few Rats Than To Be One”
In pointing to the 7th, [congressional district] the president wasn’t hoping his supporters would recognize landmarks like Johns Hopkins Hospital, perhaps the nation’s leading medical center. He wasn’t conjuring images of the U.S. Social Security Administration, where they write the checks that so many retired and disabled Americans depend upon. It wasn’t about the beauty of the Inner Harbor or the proud history of Fort McHenry. And it surely wasn’t about the economic standing of a district where the median income is actually above the national average. No, he was returning to an old standby of attacking an African American lawmaker from a majority black district on the most emotional and bigoted of arguments. It was only surprising that there wasn’t room for a few classic phrases like “you people” or “welfare queens” or “crime-ridden ghettos” or a suggestion that the congressman “go back” to where he came from.
This is a president who will happily debase himself at the slightest provocation. And given Mr. Cummings’ criticisms of U.S. border policy, the various investigations he has launched as chairman of the House Oversight Committee, his willingness to call Mr. Trump a racist for his recent attacks on the freshmen congresswomen, and the fact that “Fox & Friends” had recently aired a segment critical of the city, slamming Baltimore must have been irresistible in a Pavlovian way. Fox News rang the bell, the president salivated and his thumbs moved across his cell phone into action.
Finally, while we would not sink to name-calling in the Trumpian manner — or ruefully point out that he failed to spell the congressman’s name correctly (it’s Cummings, not Cumming) — we would tell the most dishonest man to ever occupy the Oval Office, the mocker of war heroes, the gleeful grabber of women’s private parts, the serial bankrupter of businesses, the useful idiot of Vladimir Putin and the guy who insisted there are “good people” among murderous neo-Nazis that he’s still not fooling most Americans into believing he’s even slightly competent in his current post. Or that he possesses a scintilla of integrity. Better to have some vermin living in your neighborhood than to be one.
That pretty much says it all. The editorial board of the Baltimore Sun nails it on the Fox News-Trump feedback loop, which is constant. Trump listens to Fox News, they get him all riled up, then he does something even stupider than what he did the day before — then they do pushback and Rupert Murdoch laughs all the way to the bank. He’s got one hell of a propaganda mill and just the mindless buffoon to stock it with fodder. Tomorrow is Monday. Get ready for the inevitable escalation — or descent, which is more like it.





















Himself has upped the ante by insulting S.F. as well as Baltimore. Apparently he think S.F. is at least as bad. (Not that it’s going to support him at the polls.)
Yeah, he knows a lot about San Francisco. He thought that when Putin was talking about “western liberalism” he meant hippies in SF and Los Angeles. Right.
He thinks it’s a dirty city full of junkies. Which, maybe, but I’d bet every city has places like that.
The larger the city, the more diverse the areas. There are parts of Los Angeles I wouldn’t be caught dead in, and other parts are very nice and beautiful.
Something unfavorable to trump must be dropping soon.
There are very few things we can do directly to the farce fart in the WH, other than our vote, however, the last few days have been showing the that the ninny can lose his way on a monorail system … his mind fog is accelerating by giant steps, fortunately, for us he has lost any clues he probably never really had ….
His continued jumping in with both feet on his horrible Racism and lie parade to the general public, has burned a hell of a lot of bridges … his, “stinking”, 30-40% rotten built-in support group, won’t be enough to throw him back in to the WH, BUT, I’m concerned how his boisterous voice to these no-accounts, may have spawned more gun nuts to blast their way through schools and shopping centers … there are thousands of those dangerous semi-auto weapons in the hands of NRA supporters, that are convinced WE-THE DEMOCRATS are singling out the NRA with charges of big money problems, [We Are], clean money and other questions …
The, “Squad”, of the four young heroes in the House should have 24/7 guards as well as the other names specifically used in the dumb ass rants from DJT …
The fact IS Trump has gone so low, there is his own term-ending rancid ranting that will boot him out the door eventually with steel toed boots …. I think he has embarrassed US and annoyed so many people INTERNATIONALLY, there are a bunch of witnesses for the House to call on that just want the clown to stop the things that put that shit eating grin on his face …