Discussion: Trump Appalled That PGA Is Moving Tourney From His Resort To ... Mexico!

The Trump organization acquired the property in 2012. According to ESPN, the PGA in 2013 announced a 10-year contract extension to hold the event at Doral, but since the deal was contingent on sponsorship, it was invalidated once Cadillac pulled out.

Hmmm, I guess the prestigious firm of Vito, Guido, Sledge and Hammer will be suing the PGA, Cadillac and Arnold Palmer's estate for compensation.
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Quick, Mexico, build the wall! You don’t want the Orange Nightmare coming after you!

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OK…let me get this straight. It’s ‘OK’ to ‘offshore’ jobs because they are cheaper (and save corporations BIG MONEY - hey I’m a businessman, amirite???) but when they offshore a golf tournament that had grown to expensive it’s a travesty? The rich ARE different from you and I.

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Wait till he finds out that eight of the last 12 US Open winners were foreigners.

I realize that his GOP supporters are too heavily invested in him to be able to bail, but for everyone else this steady drumbeat of idiocy and fraud is going to have an effect. Shouting “Crooked Hillary!” at random intervals won’t be enough to counteract it.

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Look at what’s going on here, Trump. Everybody loves Mexico. Great food, great people, great weather. Polls agree, you are wrong. Sad.

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I guess the Chinese must have pictures of the PGA with a trapeze, a donkey and a circus midget and are blackmailing them into this move. It’s always the Chinese.

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That has to sting his ego a bit.

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To retain a hint of that trademark Drumpf mystique/sleaze, the tournament will be sponsored by Grupo Salinas, owner of Advance America, the largest payday loan company in the United States.

In addition to the pure irony of the tournament moving to Mexico, it’s also funny that the question of Cadillac continuing its sponsorship arose right after some Cheetos®-colored narcissist descended an escalator in New York and called Mexicans “rapists” and “drug dealers.”

Well played all around.

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Doesn’t everything?

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This is awesome! Cadillac had to sever their ties. When in the history of presidential politics has a major company actually boycotted a party candidate? Trump is crumbling faster than a cheap suit in a Mexican jungle.

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Well this is certainly turning out to be a terrible, horrible, no good, very bad week for Trump. Thank you, o great celestial account balancer!

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Wow…that’s just about enough karmic schadenfreude for me for one day. Between this and Ken Starr I’ve made a real mess of my pants.

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You, Donald Trump, are “what’s going on with our country.” It is so sad.

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I have a feeling that this is a harbinger of things to come for Rump (or maybe the Miss America pageant was it). His brand, his very name, is becoming toxic. Perhaps, at one time, his ability to play the carnival barker or WWE ringleader was seen as a goof, a joke, something to bring the tourists in from the cold.

No more. Any company that values their own brand can’t really be that close to Rump at this point because, from an international point of view, it’s poisonous.

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Irony isn’t dead at GM.

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Nothing is dearer to the hearts, more important to the peace of mind and more emblematic of the economic fortunes of white working class people in America than the location of the PGA. Well, possibly the Americas Cup, but nothing else.

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Seems like the 100% “earned media” strategery might have a couple of flaws.

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Yea, you wouldn’t believe how many NASCAR hats I saw last time I was in Bermuda.

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The Trump organization acquired the property in 2012. According to ESPN, the PGA in 2013 announced a 10-year contract extension to hold the event at Doral, but since the deal was contingent on sponsorship, it was invalidated once Cadillac pulled out.

Why does Donald Trump hate free markets?

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