Citing “moral turpitude” and his call to “terminate” provisions of the U.S. Constitution, Chicago’s venerable Daily Newspaper, the Chicago Tribune, called for the Trump name to be “jackhammered off” his downtown motel.
“The Chicago Tribune, once a defender of Donald Trump’s rights, declared in an editorial Thursday that it now wants the former president’s name “jackhammered” off his hotel and condo tower in downtown Chicago.
Trump battled in 2014 to plaster his name on the Trump International Hotel and Tower, despite opposition by Chicagoans who thought it spoiled a skyline with no other giant names on buildings.”
Just last year the paper had defended Trump’s right to have his name on the building after a local alderman sponsored an ordinance prohibiting “any person convicted of treason, sedition or subversive actions from doing business with the city, including having a sign permit.”
But now the Tribune has seen enough:
“The Tribune’s editorial board’s reversal came after Trump called for terminating the Constitution last week.
But even more significantly to the newspaper, Trump’s company was convicted Tuesday on 17 counts of criminal tax fraud, falsifying records and other crimes in New York State Supreme Court in Manhattan.The “jury found that the Trump Organization was corrupt at the core, we are less than shocked to learn, helping executives dodge required taxes on a punch bowl of perks from luxury apartments to Mercedes-Benzes to cold, hard, cash,” the editorial noted.
“Let’s review,” it continued. “In a matter of days, if not hours, Trump failed to do his duty to support the Constitution, an act that should preclude a further run for president, and the Trump Organization was exposed as a criminal enterprise.”
“And Chicagoans still have to look at that sign?”
Presidential historian Michel Beschloss read the piece and decided to join the fun on Twitter:
— Flushing Gazpacho 🌊 (@CovfefeGazpacho) December 8, 2022
Yup
Yes, it defaces an otherwise beautiful building and contaminates the riverfront pic.twitter.com/0LBfVPAWYQ
— BaJGT50 (@BarbJoan1) December 8, 2022
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I propose they start with the T and then find themselves delayed for a bit.
— SpringPeeper (@RachelsBirds) December 8, 2022
🤣🤣🤣
it's a blight that hangs over the otherwise fabulous Architecture Boat tour
— Rebecca Jordan (@rebeccajordan) December 8, 2022
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When the Trump Hotel sign came down in toronto, there are hundreds of people watching from the sidewalks and cheering. And that's Canada!
— Brian Huntley 🇨🇦💙💛 (@BrianPHuntley) December 8, 2022
🙌 🙌 🙌
Take her down. pic.twitter.com/61h2afjq0y
— Timber Burr (@burr_timber) December 8, 2022
Yes
Chicago Tribune, I think you have a winner there!
Congrats.
Yes, it defaces a building, ruins the skyline, and ruins the riverfront but it always has since it first got plastered on the building’s side. The Trib should have gotten behind removing it much sooner.
The Trump domino’s continue to fall!!! Love it!
My favorite American city! Mr. Hanke the talking turd from South Park leaves a shit stain everywhere he goes on everything he touches…hmmm…so I guess that make rumpboy a piece of shit.
There are other properties that have taken off those gaudy, fake gold letters. I’ll bet they can fund the work to do the job of removing Trump’s name by selling tickets for say ten bucks (in cash, first-come-first-served the day of) and they’ll easily have a couple thousand or more folks standing within view of the work to see it happen! Hell, they could even hold a raffle, again ten bucks apiece (ahead of time) and when the letters are down and on the ground each of the five lucky winners gets to take a sledgehammer to a letter. Funds left over after costs are paid could be donated to a charity that will particularly piss Trump off. Suggestions anyone?
Habitat For Humanity?
Hell, how much money do you suppose they could make if they sold off the letters (preferably in pieces) to Trump’s supporters all wanting a LITERAL “piece of TRUMP?”
Say, sell the pieces for $10 to $25 each. The supporters would be getting a better bang for their buck than anything they’ve gotten from their “donations” to Trump (although you’d never convince them of that). And, if broken into enough pieces, it would likely be more than enough to pay for the job–even make a nice profit from it.
The former guys fans would probably be willing to pay far more than that, if it’s got a piece of paper in fancy type with a gold seal that says it’s from one of his properties.
This whole thing made me laugh so hard that I almost fell off my chair. Thanks. I needed that.