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Pluvious

(4,305 posts)
Thu Sep 29, 2022, 01:42 PM Sep 2022

TFG's rally organizers "The American Freedom Tour" facing bankruptcy

SOOO did not see that coming

LMAO



The American Freedom Tour, the company that puts on for-profit Trump rallies, has cancelled events all over the country and now faces BANKRUPTCY after failing to pay vendors and speakers. This is marvelous news!


https://www.washingtonpost.com/politics/2022/09/29/trump-speeches-bankruptcy-vendors/
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TFG's rally organizers "The American Freedom Tour" facing bankruptcy (Original Post) Pluvious Sep 2022 OP
Hope that places that we're hosting these rallies TheRealNorth Sep 2022 #1
Sorry, no sympathy from me Roy Rolling Sep 2022 #35
Recommended. H2O Man Sep 2022 #2
Did TFG break them by not paying his bills? Farmer-Rick Sep 2022 #3
Who would've imagined that? Jirel Sep 2022 #4
The man bankrupted casinos, fer crissakes gratuitous Sep 2022 #5
"after failing to pay vendors and speakers" - part of why I ask, WHY would anyone rent tfg a venue? eppur_se_muova Sep 2022 #6
May he be forced to work it off in prison. Brainfodder Sep 2022 #7
Why are people still doing business with Trump? Yavin4 Sep 2022 #8
Suck it Donny you fat piece of shit Blue Owl Sep 2022 #9
Also too how many times could you voluntarily listen to Candace Owens or Kimberly Guilfoyle... Initech Sep 2022 #24
Zero. Zero times. Maru Kitteh Sep 2022 #42
I know, right? Initech Sep 2022 #43
His worshipers learned from him. They will always fail. louis-t Sep 2022 #10
The Healy & Bigelow Kickapoo Medicine shows of the 1890s were much better managed. n/t slumcamper Sep 2022 #11
Surprise surprise vlyons Sep 2022 #12
In other news: Water is wet GopherGal Sep 2022 #25
HA HA HA HA HA HA HA HA HA HA HA HA HA *holds breath* HA HA HA HA HA HA HA HA HA HA HA HA HA HA HA Initech Sep 2022 #13
K & R Your post.....and a couple more for good luck..........HA, HA.!!! Stuart G Sep 2022 #18
Awwww. 2 tots 3Hotdogs Sep 2022 #14
Another con ending in bankruptcy. Shocker Bristlecone Sep 2022 #15
Good malaise Sep 2022 #16
Socialism Johnny2X2X Sep 2022 #17
"I'm really rich." rubbersole Sep 2022 #19
Or Trump NowISeetheLight Sep 2022 #22
Anyone Trump owes money to will be shafted. lpbk2713 Sep 2022 #20
Hmmm NowISeetheLight Sep 2022 #21
I'll bet those venue owners used to be magats. lindysalsagal Sep 2022 #23
My sympathy level for all who did business with him is nil; my GLOAT Level is through the roof! NBachers Sep 2022 #26
The American Freedumb Tour peppertree Sep 2022 #27
Shocking. Kid Berwyn Sep 2022 #28
It's almost as if everyone in the trump orbit is just a bunch of criminals that rob and steal from Heather MC Sep 2022 #29
Everything he touches dies. KS Toronado Sep 2022 #30
DUH! MustBeTheBooz Sep 2022 #31
tfg can also stand for Marthe48 Sep 2022 #32
Let's Hope OldkySoul Sep 2022 #33
Are all his rallies for-profit? TlalocW Sep 2022 #34
Can we Traildogbob Sep 2022 #36
ha barbtries Sep 2022 #37
This is really good news on so many levels. onecaliberal Sep 2022 #38
I once was a vendor, and I got screwed. But the client who did me NCjack Sep 2022 #39
LOL. What are those MAGAts that follow him around like Deadheads gonna do now? catbyte Sep 2022 #40
They forgot Rule #1 - Always get paid up front when doing work for Chump FakeNoose Sep 2022 #41
Well maybe the good news is vlyons Sep 2022 #44
failing to pay Skittles Sep 2022 #45
ETTD: Everything Trump Touches Dies Efilroft Sul Sep 2022 #46
One of the reasons is because those venues didn't really sell out, halfulglas Sep 2022 #47
ETTD WhiteTara Sep 2022 #48
I have heard bankruptcy called an "accounting move" but it is really twodogsbarking Sep 2022 #49

TheRealNorth

(9,470 posts)
1. Hope that places that we're hosting these rallies
Thu Sep 29, 2022, 01:43 PM
Sep 2022

Got their money up-front. Although at this point, if you didn't you are almost begging to get burned.

Roy Rolling

(6,908 posts)
35. Sorry, no sympathy from me
Thu Sep 29, 2022, 04:04 PM
Sep 2022

It’s business. They hoped to profit from a lunatic-a-palooza in their venue, they lost. That’s capitalism.

Farmer-Rick

(10,135 posts)
3. Did TFG break them by not paying his bills?
Thu Sep 29, 2022, 01:44 PM
Sep 2022

With Trump for a customer, you are going to be always broke.

Jirel

(2,014 posts)
4. Who would've imagined that?
Thu Sep 29, 2022, 02:08 PM
Sep 2022

Not after genius businesses like Trump University, Trump Taj Mahal, Trump Steak…

gratuitous

(82,849 posts)
5. The man bankrupted casinos, fer crissakes
Thu Sep 29, 2022, 02:20 PM
Sep 2022

That's a level of commitment to wrongheadedness you don't see very often.

eppur_se_muova

(36,247 posts)
6. "after failing to pay vendors and speakers" - part of why I ask, WHY would anyone rent tfg a venue?
Thu Sep 29, 2022, 02:22 PM
Sep 2022

They've been warned in advance he's going to skip on his bills.

Initech

(100,034 posts)
24. Also too how many times could you voluntarily listen to Candace Owens or Kimberly Guilfoyle...
Thu Sep 29, 2022, 03:30 PM
Sep 2022

Without wanting to go jump off a bridge?

Maru Kitteh

(28,313 posts)
42. Zero. Zero times.
Thu Sep 29, 2022, 04:34 PM
Sep 2022

In fact, just thinking about it leaves me wondering exactly how far I would have to walk to get to the nearest bridge.

Initech

(100,034 posts)
43. I know, right?
Thu Sep 29, 2022, 05:22 PM
Sep 2022

Even the thought of watching either of those idiots for like 5 minutes makes me want to throw things at my TV.

louis-t

(23,267 posts)
10. His worshipers learned from him. They will always fail.
Thu Sep 29, 2022, 02:46 PM
Sep 2022

"Well, our orange Jesus told us we don't have to pay vendors. He never did and look how successful he is!!"

vlyons

(10,252 posts)
12. Surprise surprise
Thu Sep 29, 2022, 02:57 PM
Sep 2022

Not. What? Trump doesn't pay his bills? Who knew? (Just about every one )

Super-low attendance doesn't pay the bills either. So how many bankruptcies does this make
now? 7? 8? 9? One would think that people would just stop doing any business with him, because everything he touches dies.

GopherGal

(2,007 posts)
25. In other news: Water is wet
Thu Sep 29, 2022, 03:31 PM
Sep 2022

Pope: still Catholic
Bear excretory functions commonly exercised in the woods.

TFG rally organizers bankrupt, and we don't just mean morally.

Initech

(100,034 posts)
13. HA HA HA HA HA HA HA HA HA HA HA HA HA *holds breath* HA HA HA HA HA HA HA HA HA HA HA HA HA HA HA
Thu Sep 29, 2022, 03:00 PM
Sep 2022


When you fall for a con artist, don't be surprised when you get conned!

Johnny2X2X

(18,969 posts)
17. Socialism
Thu Sep 29, 2022, 03:13 PM
Sep 2022

So, they can't pay their bills and they're petitioning the courts to have the taxpayers bail them out.

I wonder what their stance on student debt relief is.

rubbersole

(6,660 posts)
19. "I'm really rich."
Thu Sep 29, 2022, 03:16 PM
Sep 2022

Maybe desantis could pitch in a little bit from his hurricane fund he's pitching at all his Ian "updates".

NowISeetheLight

(3,943 posts)
22. Or Trump
Thu Sep 29, 2022, 03:23 PM
Sep 2022

All that money his Save the Election PAC suckered out of his supporters. There's like $250m or something they could use.

lindysalsagal

(20,581 posts)
23. I'll bet those venue owners used to be magats.
Thu Sep 29, 2022, 03:27 PM
Sep 2022

NOW where will these idiots go for jollies? Crackerbarrell?

peppertree

(21,596 posts)
27. The American Freedumb Tour
Thu Sep 29, 2022, 03:38 PM
Sep 2022

Where the grifters are now free to buy Tuscan villas - and the attendees are now that much dumber (and poorer).

 

Heather MC

(8,084 posts)
29. It's almost as if everyone in the trump orbit is just a bunch of criminals that rob and steal from
Thu Sep 29, 2022, 03:52 PM
Sep 2022

From their own
And then declaring bankruptcy basically running to the government and robbing from the rest of us because American Freedom tour, can't pay their bills

Love that American freedom tour's bankruptcy is denied and they just crumble into financial ruin
love
truth
agreement

OldkySoul

(38 posts)
33. Let's Hope
Thu Sep 29, 2022, 03:58 PM
Sep 2022

that this is a good sign, and that it means that the god awful spell he has had over his base and the media may be finally ending.

Traildogbob

(8,674 posts)
36. Can we
Thu Sep 29, 2022, 04:07 PM
Sep 2022

Just stop payment of his pension? FFS. After his fat ass is dead we still gotta fork out tax cash for his Ho! She’s so plastic she may never die. What’s the shelf life for plastic, like 1,000 years? Why should we pay pensions for traitor ass thieves. Just God Damn it all.

barbtries

(28,769 posts)
37. ha
Thu Sep 29, 2022, 04:13 PM
Sep 2022

it's so good that he will not be able to continue to disperse this insanity. Will the rallies stop? i think they're what keeps him breathing.

NCjack

(10,279 posts)
39. I once was a vendor, and I got screwed. But the client who did me
Thu Sep 29, 2022, 04:23 PM
Sep 2022

did not have fluorescent orange skin, sunrise glowing blonde comb-over with a twist, a Confederate flag clown suit, big white clown shoes with swastikas, and wearing a sign that warned: "If you touch me, you die."

But, his vendors did not see anything that gave them pause.

"A fool and his money were lucky to get together in the first place." (Harry Anderson, played Judge Harry Stone on “Night Court”)



catbyte

(34,332 posts)
40. LOL. What are those MAGAts that follow him around like Deadheads gonna do now?
Thu Sep 29, 2022, 04:29 PM
Sep 2022

What is Benedict Donald gonna do now without his hate hug box? Will he be forced to fund his own Nuremberg-lite rallies??? Yeah, that'll be the day. Those vendors should've known, though, not to deal with anyone associated with that con man.



halfulglas

(1,654 posts)
47. One of the reasons is because those venues didn't really sell out,
Thu Sep 29, 2022, 09:31 PM
Sep 2022

Despite the way they push the crowds together for the TeeVee. Oh, look at the crowds! They are often the same people, the die hards, traveling to his rallies. Also, so many of the people attending already have enough merch so they probably aren't buying the crappy made in China stuff. Many of the others who still believe in him don't have the money to travel from rally to rally. He's already hoovered up their money, though most don't care.

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