No problem, Scott Pruitt can fix that…
Yet more proof Trump pollutes anything he touches…
Even bigger pollution comes from seeing Don the Con’s name on the building.
This building is a blight on the Loop. It will eventually join other properties by removing that fucking name. It’s bad for business.
Chicago real estate agents are trying to lure new restaurants to vacant spaces inside Trump International Hotel and Tower by ignoring the president’s name in property listings. In one brochure, agents used a photograph that had the giant sign featuring the Trump name either digitally removed or from before 2014, when crews hung the sign. The news comes about a month since Sixteen, the fancy and acclaimed restaurant inside the tower, closed to reconcept in part due to sagging business.
If it kills all the Asian carp, I’m all for it. Remember this is the river that gets dyed bright green every st pats. It’s horrifying.
It does make my heart sink when I see that name. Some other downtown buildings have a name on them too, but the landmark buildings—the best buildings—assume you know them by their awesome architecture. Trump should have done the same. Great building, way greater without the name.
Lots or most of the retail space in the Trump building has NEVER had tenants. It just sits empty.
“Why should Trump Tower get special treatment?” said Albert Ettinger, an environmental lawyer with the Sierra Club and Friends of the Chicago River.
Ettinger is a little off here. Comrade Cockholster’s Criminal Corporation does not get special treatment. It merely ignores the law. And then, when it gets caught, it merely pays whatever penalties are levied against it, usually after a lengthy legal battle and, often, using his Fraudulent Foundation to foot the bill.
I hope that is a permanent state of affairs at least in this country. I hope his name is such shit when this is over that nobody will want to even so much as hear it.
But that’s okay with him since, along with his golf courses, the Trump Towers just exist to launder money for the Russian mob.
This is the same building Pulitzer-winning Chicago Tribune architecture critic Blair Kamin had a particular issue with.
A few years ago Trump built a generally well-received addition to the skyline, and in the manner of someone labeling his stapler at work, decided to come back around and stick his last name on it. Kamin, in his role as person who evaluates architecture, wrote that it was a garish “wart” on a “handsome skyscraper” that is otherwise a “plus for the skyline.”
The Cheeto Tweeto promptly took to Twitter to lambaste Kamin, a man who, unlike America’s greatest proponent of Dictator Chic, actually had taste.
Also worth noting, Kim Jong-Un’s now-BFF didn’t bother to sue Kamin. Perhaps because losing a $500 million lawsuit against the late Paul Gapp, who was also a Pulitzer-winning architecture critic for the Tribune, was still fresh in Mikey “Pit Bull” Cohen’s(?) mind.
These never get old. Feel free to sing along, “If I had a hammer ….”
