Keith Olbermann: I can’t stand to live in a Trump building anymore

[babylonsister]

Keith Olbermann: I can’t stand to live in a Trump building anymore


Okay, Donnie, you win.

I’m moving out.

Not moving out of the country — not yet anyway. I’m merely moving out of one of New York’s many buildings slathered in equal portions with gratuitous gold and the name “Trump.” Nine largely happy years with an excellent staff and an excellent reputation (until recently, anyway) — but I’m out of here.

I’m getting out because of the degree to which the very name “Trump” has degraded the public discourse and the nation itself. I can’t hear, or see, or say that name any longer without spitting. Frankly, I’m running out of Trump spit.

And, yes, I’m fully aware that I’m blaming a guy with the historically unique fashion combination of a cheap baseball cap and Oompa Loompa makeup for coarsening politics even though, out of the two of us, I’m the one who has promulgated a “Worst Persons in the World” list for most of the past decade. That’s how vulgar this has all become. It’s worse even than Worst Persons.

This is the campaign of a PG-rated cartoon character running for president, interrupting a string of insults the rest of us abandoned in the seventh grade only long enough to resume a concurrent string of half-crazed boasts: We’re gonna start winning again! We’re gonna build an eleventy-billion-foot-high wall! We’re not gonna pay a lot for this muffler!

All this coarseness is largely masking the truth that the Trump campaign is entirely about coarseness. Take away the unmappable comb-over and the unstoppable mouth and the Freudian-rich debates about genitalia, and there is no Trump campaign. Donald Trump’s few forays into actual issues suggest he is startlingly unaware of how the presidency or even ordinary governance works.

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[metroins]

1. If he's happy with the building

I wouldn't move.

But he Keith is a public figure, it does seem hypocritical to live in a Trump building.

He'll likely make money on the move.

[Warpy]

3. Depends on how long he's been there

and whether or not there's another sucker for Trump with enough money to buy him out.

I'm sure there's another ultra luxury building with iron clad security owned by another shady billionaire out there for him.

(sez she who could never afford an efficiency apartment to size of a closet on Manhattan)

[metroins]

4. He said 9 years nt

[Kelvin Mace]

2. Why would you have ever had anything to do with putting money in Trump's pocket

in the first place?

[localroger]

5. Trump has gotten some nice things made

He can't always pay for them and sometimes they fall apart through neglect, but they're top quality while they last. Trump's casino went bankrupt because he put too much effort (=$$$) into making it so nice and he couldn't cover those costs even with an income stream that amounts to a license to print money. I'm sure Olbermann is right that living in the Trump building has been a great experience.

But because Trump puts his name on everything Olbermann is reminded of the connection every time he addresses a piece of mail. And he knows that every time someone looks up his address, they see that he is a Trump customer. And eventually it doesn't matter how professional the staff are or how clean the place is if that is the price of having the experience.