There is no low they won’t go. That should be emblazoned on the Trump coat-of-arms, because if any phrase encapsulates their philosophy and behavior, it is that. Jared Kushner and Ivanka Trump rented a 5,000 square foot home in the exclusive Kalorama neighborhood in Washington, D.C. They had 6.5 bathrooms, but wouldn’t let the Secret Service men and women protecting their lives use any of them. Washington Post:
Instructed not to use any of the half-dozen bathrooms inside the couple’s house, the Secret Service detail assigned to President Trump’s daughter and son-in-law spent months searching for a reliable restroom to use on the job, according to neighbors and law enforcement officials. After resorting to a porta-potty, as well as bathrooms at the nearby home of former president Barack Obama and the not-so-nearby residence of Vice President Pence, the agents finally found a toilet to call their own.
But it came at a cost to U.S. taxpayers. Since September 2017, the federal government has been spending $3,000 a month — more than $100,000 to date —to rent a basement studio, with a bathroom, from a neighbor of the Kushner family. […]
The episode in Kalorama is unusual because of the lengths to which the agents’ exile took them. In addition to their reliance on the restrooms used by fellow agents assigned to the Obamas and Pences, the detail occasionally popped into neighborhood businesses to avail themselves of the facilities.
“It’s the first time I ever heard of a Secret Service detail having to go to these extremes to find a bathroom,” said one law enforcement official familiar with the situation. [,,,]
The blockade of precious street parking spaces by the Trump/Kushner Secret Service detail roiled the neighborhood early in 2017. The porta-potty erected for agents further enraged residents unaccustomed to such sights on stately Tracy Place NW. As the Trump administration enters its final days with the president impeached a second time for inciting a deadly attack on the Capitol, eyes in Kalorama are peeled for the sight of moving trucks.
I am certain that the residents of this upscale neighborhood will be toasting each other with champagne when they see Jared and Ivanka go down the street for the last time. They’re trailer trash with cash. They have everything that money can buy and nothing that money can’t buy, but that you need to live a good life. They have no decency.
There are some wealthy people like this. I remember an incident in Brentwood where a cleaning lady somehow ran into a glass sliding door and cracked open her forehead. She then went to another door in the house and her employers wouldn’t let her in. They didn’t want her to bleed on the wood floors. They didn’t care that she was injured and bleeding, their only concern was how it affected them and they didn’t want her to bleed there. Go bleed someplace else, bitch.
I was in law school at the time and working part time for a high powered lawyer who worked out of his Brentwood home and I heard this from the neighbors. We were appalled. This was inhumane. But then I remembered F. Scott Fitzgerald’s comment, “The very rich are different from you and me.” Yeah. Some of them seem to have lost their humanity outright.
I have known some very wealthy people. Probably the wealthiest home I was ever in was the estate of Patrick Reynolds, the heir to R.J. Reynolds Tobacco, in Bel Aire. I didn’t know Patrick well, but he was a decent guy who wouldn’t have done this kind of a thing — and I’m talking about both the cleaning lady incident and Jared and Ivanka with the toilets. I also visited Playboy Mansion West on two occasions and Hefner wasn’t this kind of an a$$hole, either. He wouldn’t have done this.
Wealth is a dividing line in our culture and always has been, no question. But the dividing line described here is not one that’s on anybody’s ledger, unless it is on Almighty God’s. And if that’s the case, good luck to Jared and Ivanka. Because you can’t take it with you — not the money. Religionists say that what earns you your ticket to heaven is your character and your good deeds on this earth. If that’s the case, don’t look to see Jared and Ivanka anywhere near the pearly gates. The good that they’ve done in the world could be rolled up and stored in a gnat’s navel and still have room left over for Donald Trump’s brain.
It does add a whole new meaning to “I don’t give a sh*t”
I have never encountered people like this One time I went to the home of Dixie Carter and Hal Holbrook I’m sure you recognize Holbrook’s name. Dixie Carter was his wife and one of the stars of “Designing Women.” I interviewed with her for a position as personal assistant. My then-boyfriend sat out in the car. Somehow that fact came up and when I was leaving she asked if my boyfriend needed to use the restroom and I asked him. It was a civilized way to behave. Jared and Ivanka are trash. They don’t care about anybody’s comfort or convenience other than their own.
Many wealthy people are great. Tom Steyer comes to mind. I met him and he was very down-to-earth. Also his long-term investment in engaging younger voters was surely a factor in Biden’s win. I didn’t know until today however that his father was a prosecutor in the Nuremberg Trials. He shared this in an email today talking about how can’t have “healing” and “unity” without accountability and I’m sure you know what he was referring to!
Worked for Labor Ready and worse assignment was at “South Lake” TX country golf club and paid daily. The “people” wouldn’t let me or others drink from outside hoses. In Texas when it is 105 in the shade. Oh, and they wanted us to be constantly moving.
Well it seems I can’t make a post for every story. And hates my syntax.
Almost time to kick these two to the curb.
Dare I say we are about to flush them out of the system?
Go right ahead.
Or tell them to ‘piss off”
They are about to jump off the curb head first. BTW I got your message and I’ll call you in a bit.
Okay.
Past time to kick these two to the curb.
Those two are very lucky to still be alive. Take that comment for what you will.
I don’t know if they are, because our side of the street isn’t the one stockpiling AR-15s. The violent crazies are wearing red hats. But on a larger level, people with a sense of entitlement like they have do end up making enemies. In all events, they are hemorrhaging friends and allies, from what I read.
It’s the violent crazies in red hats that I figure will get them if anyone. It’s funny…said crazies make me think of a particularly vicious breed of fairy known as “redcaps”, who wore the scalps of their foes on their heads.
Live by the sword, die by the sword. Maybe vampireboy can get a new gig with his friend, the bonesaw prince.
I have wondered from time to time what it would take for someone on “our side” to snap and shoot one of these morons in the head. I’ve said throughout that Trumps are the luckiest morons in the world because all the crazies form their base of support. Hence Jan. 6th! Delusion but True Believers: Rigid, Righteous, Vicious, Entitled and Dangerous!
PS It is also very interesting to see the GOP’s circular firing squad for a change. To see the redhats turn on their own. Didn’t quite see that coming though predictable.
The residents of a neighborhood like Kalorama would never be so pedestrian as to have a formal homeowner’s association (say of the kind I had the two times I owned my own townhome) but there’s surely an informal group that looks out for the overall needs of the community and an informal “mayor.” Wouldn’t it be awesome if said “mayor” went around and secured permission for someone (or more than one home) to, should Jarvanka make a last minute appearance have a speaker rigged to blast out “Na na na na, Na na na na. Hey hey. GOODBYE!”
If I still lived up that way I’d be willing to spend the night in jail for (after getting help making the giant stencil and securing paint colored like Trump’s ugly mug) paint ALPHA MIKE FOXTROT! on the street in front of their house.(I can’t help but think that the Secret Service wouldn’t stop me, but instead call – after I’d started my work to give me at least a shot of getting away – local LE to arrest me.)
I really do believe in a person’s inherent ability to change, and I think very soon we will no longer be able to describe these two as trailer trash with cash.
I mean…not a lot of cash will be left when the IRS takes it all away.
Sounds a lot like my favorite line from Clue The Movie as spoken by Madeline Kahn: “I believe in life after death. Now that he’s dead, I have a life.” Perfect epitaph for Trump, yeah?
Thank you, for reminding me of that gem, I fear decades may have passed since I last laughed my guts out that movie. I’m going to watch it tonight!
cram in a “to” somewhere.
All this says that all the other people in the area are decent human beings. Those with their own Secret Service details are probably on a reasonably friendly basis with the Agents and this need is accommodated as a matter of course. The Trump Clan, on the other hand…