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Zorro

(15,691 posts)
Tue Aug 27, 2019, 01:25 AM Aug 2019

The world is burning, but Trump's Doral resort is just tremendous

The Amazon is burning, a trade war is escalating, and the world economy is deteriorating.

Enter President Trump, taking the stage on Monday at the Group of Seven gathering of world leaders in Biarritz, France, to assure an anxious world that .?.?. his golf resort in Miami is just tremendous!

“With Doral, we have a series of magnificent buildings — we call them bungalows — they each hold from 50 to 70 very luxurious rooms with magnificent views,” Trump said at the closing news conference of the international gathering.

Trump, who had been asked to clarify his earlier (inappropriate) remarks promoting his Miami-area property at the international gathering, instead expanded on them: “We have incredible conference rooms, incredible restaurants. And we have many hundreds of acres so that in terms of parking, in terms of all of the things that you need, the ballrooms are among the biggest in Florida, and the best.”

https://www.washingtonpost.com/opinions/the-world-is-burning-but-trumps-doral-resort-is-just-tremendous/2019/08/26/c6851162-c841-11e9-be05-f76ac4ec618c_story.html

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The world is burning, but Trump's Doral resort is just tremendous (Original Post) Zorro Aug 2019 OP
BEDBUGS. BEDBUGS. BEDBUGS. BEDBUGS. BEDBUGS. RockRaven Aug 2019 #1
That's not my understanding of what a 'bungalow' is, by nature ... mr_lebowski Aug 2019 #2
Have I missed something Timmygoat Aug 2019 #3
Magnificent, magnificent, incredible, incredible. Sheesh, what a vocabulary. SharonAnn Aug 2019 #4
 

mr_lebowski

(33,643 posts)
2. That's not my understanding of what a 'bungalow' is, by nature ...
Tue Aug 27, 2019, 01:48 AM
Aug 2019

That term is almost universally known to mean 'single family'.

A building with 50-70 hotel rooms ... ain't 'a bungalow'.

Technically the building may be built in 'bungalow style' but if you tell a hotel guest they're staying in a bungalow ... and you take them to a giant 70-room building and say 'your room is in here!' ... they're likely gonna be pissed.

Of course, I believe 'that's what they call them', because everything about Trump is a bullshit LIE.

Timmygoat

(779 posts)
3. Have I missed something
Tue Aug 27, 2019, 06:14 AM
Aug 2019

I thought we had a place called Camp David for conferences.
Also I feel sure that the leaders in the G7 will not have time to utilize ballrooms.

SharonAnn

(13,767 posts)
4. Magnificent, magnificent, incredible, incredible. Sheesh, what a vocabulary.
Wed Aug 28, 2019, 12:10 PM
Aug 2019

Sounds like a sleazeball real estate developer. Oh wait, I guess he is.

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