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Botany

(70,589 posts)
Mon Jun 11, 2018, 09:29 AM Jun 2018

Because this never gets old ... epic troll




After being kicked out of Germany Trump's grandfather ran a brothel
in the Klondike in N.W. Canada during the gold rush and Justin Trudeau
gave Trump a framed picture of the whore house in front of the press.

It took Trump 24 hours to realize he had been trolled by Trudeau in front
of the whole world and then Trump started w/his "he is weak" tweets
about P.M. Justin Trudeau.

Justin Trudeau

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Because this never gets old ... epic troll (Original Post) Botany Jun 2018 OP
K&R smirkymonkey Jun 2018 #1
Classic!! Nice job JT!! InAbLuEsTaTe Jun 2018 #2
Oh, the BEST kind............ MyOwnPeace Jun 2018 #3
Wonder how long it took the "stable genius" to figure out he'd been trolled.....? lastlib Jun 2018 #11
OMG I just noticed he got Sarah Huckster-Bee Slanders to post a picture of the event! lagomorph777 Jun 2018 #14
the article said 24 hours niyad Jun 2018 #25
And the Con's attack on Trudeau malaise Jun 2018 #4
Absolutely! MyOwnPeace Jun 2018 #5
Yep malaise Jun 2018 #9
So, tRump's taste in Scarsdale Jun 2018 #17
They are all low-life scumbags malaise Jun 2018 #18
THIS nt heaven05 Jun 2018 #40
Well, to be fair..... luvtheGWN Jun 2018 #6
And the would -be hoteliers marybourg Jun 2018 #16
Grandfather was into gold rush Canadian hookers, Grandson likes golden showers from Russians IronLionZion Jun 2018 #7
That's some of funniest shit ever nolabels Jun 2018 #8
The goldrush... with like.. golden streams right? woundedkarma Jun 2018 #10
Holy s__t that's amazing! lagomorph777 Jun 2018 #12
I feel like buying something made in Canada! bucolic_frolic Jun 2018 #13
I feel like... 3catwoman3 Jun 2018 #15
I heard the same thing from a friend from our Indivisible group. calimary Jun 2018 #20
Hell if I could I'd leave tomorrow 47of74 Jun 2018 #21
I actually made a couple preliminay inquiries... 3catwoman3 Jun 2018 #32
I'm beginning to feel like Canada is not far enough away. Hassin Bin Sober Jun 2018 #34
Is NASA still planning a mission to Mars? 3catwoman3 Jun 2018 #36
LOL k&r DesertRat Jun 2018 #19
The "stable genius" versus a guy who actually is a genius (and stable) n/t Victor_c3 Jun 2018 #22
Yep. A guy who makes you sick versus a guy who makes you feel good.... SunSeeker Jun 2018 #46
GOP Grandson Of Pimp jmowreader Jun 2018 #23
+1 Made me laugh!!!! Little Star Jun 2018 #24
so the mango mussolini is simply follinwing the family traidtion of screwing the public for money. niyad Jun 2018 #26
That's so canadian. lindysalsagal Jun 2018 #27
Dunce ? Did you say dunce? syringis Jun 2018 #28
This is what Dirty Donny* (R) is pissed about Achilleaze Jun 2018 #29
Not sure I buy it caraher Jun 2018 #30
To me, the photograph was a reminder that Trump is the grandson of immigrants. From Canada! Nitram Jun 2018 #33
Yeah, that's good stuff too caraher Jun 2018 #37
I believe ANYTHING heaven05 Jun 2018 #41
Somehow you missed the Wikipedia entry for Friedrich Trump FakeNoose Jun 2018 #44
That's all in the Snopes piece caraher Jun 2018 #45
Nicely played. Nitram Jun 2018 #31
"Whore"house? Uh, change your wording please. nt MadDAsHell Jun 2018 #35
A bit of truth served, a bit of justice. defacto7 Jun 2018 #38
Juanita Jean-Oh Justin you troll you Gothmog Jun 2018 #39
... orangecrush Jun 2018 #42
omg! that's SO perfect! liberalla Jun 2018 #43
That makes the whole blowup make much more sense quakerboy Jun 2018 #47

MyOwnPeace

(16,940 posts)
3. Oh, the BEST kind............
Mon Jun 11, 2018, 09:56 AM
Jun 2018

of "trolling" - one that leaves you looking like a fool and you don't even know it has happened!!!!!!

Tres bien, Monsieur Trudeau!

MyOwnPeace

(16,940 posts)
5. Absolutely!
Mon Jun 11, 2018, 10:04 AM
Jun 2018

No different than when IQ45 got burned by PRESIDENT OBAMA at the Press Corp dinner! The only thing this picture doesn't have is the steam coming out of IQ45's ears like you could see when PRESIDENT OBAMA roasted him!

Scarsdale

(9,426 posts)
17. So, tRump's taste in
Mon Jun 11, 2018, 11:03 AM
Jun 2018

"ladies of the evening" was passed down from grandpa? No wonder he thinks every woman has a price. REAL respectable women want nothing to do with him. Melanie found out the hard way that money can not buy happiness, but it does create a whole lot of misery.

luvtheGWN

(1,336 posts)
6. Well, to be fair.....
Mon Jun 11, 2018, 10:06 AM
Jun 2018

.....every hotel that opened in the Klondike doubled as a brothel. that's what happens when thousands of men trek into the back of beyond in search of their fortune, and leave their wives and girlfriends back at home.

marybourg

(12,637 posts)
16. And the would -be hoteliers
Mon Jun 11, 2018, 10:51 AM
Jun 2018

knew that, and opened hotels for the high profits anticipated from that trade.

IronLionZion

(45,541 posts)
7. Grandfather was into gold rush Canadian hookers, Grandson likes golden showers from Russians
Mon Jun 11, 2018, 10:09 AM
Jun 2018

so the apple didn't fall that far from the tree.

nolabels

(13,133 posts)
8. That's some of funniest shit ever
Mon Jun 11, 2018, 10:11 AM
Jun 2018

Our country may be in the dumpster can but it's easy to guess who will be at the bottom of it when it gets tromped down at the end

 

woundedkarma

(498 posts)
10. The goldrush... with like.. golden streams right?
Mon Jun 11, 2018, 10:20 AM
Jun 2018

Is it possible, not really hard to believe, but if there were gold in the nearest river/stream.. and you were to use that water to clean yourself off... would that not be... a golden shower?

lagomorph777

(30,613 posts)
12. Holy s__t that's amazing!
Mon Jun 11, 2018, 10:25 AM
Jun 2018

That's as classic as the time that guy handed out "Trump Pence" Russian flags at a RW conference.

calimary

(81,512 posts)
20. I heard the same thing from a friend from our Indivisible group.
Mon Jun 11, 2018, 11:22 AM
Jun 2018

Over the weekend, we were working on the upcoming week's "call to action" email to our members and friends, and she said exactly that. She badly wants to sell her house and move to Canada now. She was that upset, and that's what she said, flat out.

3catwoman3

(24,054 posts)
32. I actually made a couple preliminay inquiries...
Mon Jun 11, 2018, 12:57 PM
Jun 2018

...after McCain selected Palin for his VP candidate. Might be time to do it again.

niyad

(113,587 posts)
26. so the mango mussolini is simply follinwing the family traidtion of screwing the public for money.
Mon Jun 11, 2018, 12:09 PM
Jun 2018

lindysalsagal

(20,733 posts)
27. That's so canadian.
Mon Jun 11, 2018, 12:18 PM
Jun 2018

And I summer in canada. I love it and the citizens. Maybe not their Chinese food....

syringis

(5,101 posts)
28. Dunce ? Did you say dunce?
Mon Jun 11, 2018, 12:20 PM
Jun 2018


It took a full day to get the innuendo... There was not a single one among his team of idiots, who has grasped the subtlety.

Even better, they have an enthusiastic message, like they wanted to say : in case you still didn't notice our dumbness, we highlight it for you...

Achilleaze

(15,543 posts)
29. This is what Dirty Donny* (R) is pissed about
Mon Jun 11, 2018, 12:28 PM
Jun 2018

This, and the Massive Glaring Savate Thumb-Screwwwe Domme Dent he suffered from Krusher Macron.


* aka republican Draft-Dodger-in-Chief

caraher

(6,279 posts)
30. Not sure I buy it
Mon Jun 11, 2018, 12:42 PM
Jun 2018

Looking for the story led me to 3rd-rate sites like Newsmax. And as someone noted upthread, while prostitution was common at hotels in the Klondike, the evidence that it's fair to characterize the place as a brothel is weak. Per Snopes

In summation, Donald Trump’s grandfather Frederick Trump was a German immigrant who made his fortune by opening several restaurants and hotels in Seattle and British Columbia during the Yukon Gold Rush. While some of these hotels may have been used for prostitution, gambling, or other seedy activities common on the trail, it is incorrect to say that Trump built his fortune on illegal activities.


I want to believe this story, but I'm also not willing to be duped. Oh, and to quote the great Robert DeNiro, "Fuck Trump!" He is loathsome enough without any need to embellish his stupidity and immorality.

Nitram

(22,892 posts)
33. To me, the photograph was a reminder that Trump is the grandson of immigrants. From Canada!
Mon Jun 11, 2018, 12:58 PM
Jun 2018

The brothel part is just gravy.

caraher

(6,279 posts)
37. Yeah, that's good stuff too
Mon Jun 11, 2018, 01:26 PM
Jun 2018

Immigrants from Germany and Canada.

I'm mostly skeptical of the "master trolling" part. Trudeau's point may have been more a "we have something in common" plea to Trump's absent sense of humanity. Trump's anti-Canada tantrum needs no special explanation.

 

heaven05

(18,124 posts)
41. I believe ANYTHING
Mon Jun 11, 2018, 06:45 PM
Jun 2018

Last edited Tue Jun 12, 2018, 10:35 AM - Edit history (1)

negative about the trump bloodline. There is NOTHING that is good, classy, worthy about him or his line of snakes. I believe his grandfather was a pimp and a 2-bit hustler. This POS we have as potus and his complete family is only worth 2 bits. Fuck trump.

FakeNoose

(32,777 posts)
44. Somehow you missed the Wikipedia entry for Friedrich Trump
Mon Jun 11, 2018, 11:20 PM
Jun 2018

Link: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Frederick_Trump

In May 1898, Trump and Levin moved to Bennett, British Columbia, a town known for prospectors building boats in order to travel to Dawson. In Bennett, Trump and Levin opened the Arctic Restaurant and Hotel, which offered fine dining and lodging in a sea of tents. The Arctic was also originally housed in a tent, but demand for the hotel and restaurant grew until it occupied a two-story building. A letter to the Yukon Sun newspaper described the Arctic:

For single men the Arctic has excellent accommodations as well as the best restaurant in Bennett, but I would not advise respectable women to go there to sleep as they are liable to hear that which would be repugnant to their feelings – and uttered, too, by the depraved of their own sex.

The Arctic House was one of the largest and most extravagant restaurants in that region of the Klondike, offering fresh fruit and ptarmigan in addition to the staple of horsemeat. The Arctic was open 24 hours a day and advertised "Rooms for ladies", which included beds and scales for measuring gold dust. The local Canadian Mounties were known to tolerate vice so long as it was conducted discreetly.

In 1900, the one-hundred-and-eleven-mile (179 km) White Pass and Yukon Route, a railroad between Skagway, Alaska and Whitehorse, Yukon, was completed. Trump founded the White Horse Restaurant and Inn in White Horse. They moved the building by barge, relocated on Front Street, and were operational by June.

The new restaurant, which included one of the largest steel ranges in the area, prepared 3,000 meals per day and had space for gambling. Despite the enormous financial success, Trump and Levin began fighting due to Levin's drinking. They broke up their business relationship in February 1901, but reconciled in April. Around that time, the local government announced suppression on prostitution, gambling and liquor, though the crackdown was delayed by businessmen until later that year. In light of this impending threat to his business operation, Trump sold his share of the restaurant to Levin and left the Yukon. In the months that followed, Levin was arrested for public drunkenness and sent to jail, and the Arctic was taken over by the Mounties. The restaurant burned down in the White Horse fire of 1905. Blair wrote that "once again, in a situation that created many losers, [Frederick Trump] managed to emerge a winner."


I've removed the footnotes for better legibility, but all footnote citations are available in the Wikipedia article.


caraher

(6,279 posts)
45. That's all in the Snopes piece
Tue Jun 12, 2018, 12:47 AM
Jun 2018

The chief thing I don't buy is that Trump was reacting to Trudeau trolling him over his grandfather running a whorehouse in the Yukon.

Snopes cites the same sources as Wikipedia; their focus was on the claim that Friederich Trump made his fortune off drugs and prostitution and found it exaggerated. The kernel of truth is that those were elements of life in those gold rush communities and most hotels in that time and place would have been part of that system. The single anonymous letter everyone cites is believable, yet hardly establishes that the man was himself chiefly a pimp and drug dealer.

I think Trudeau was just reminding Trump that his own family has business and personal ties to Canada. I see little sound backing for the claim that this was "expert trolling" of Trump by Trudeau that triggered Trump's anti-Canada tantrum - that's what I'm most skeptical of. The sources for that claim I've found are sites like Newsmax, Reddit and something called washingtonpress.com. When I want something to be true SOOO badly and that's the best backup I can find, I need to let it go!

But that's just me I guess

Gothmog

(145,619 posts)
39. Juanita Jean-Oh Justin you troll you
Mon Jun 11, 2018, 02:48 PM
Jun 2018

Juanita Jean is having fun http://juanitajean.com/oh-justin-you-troll-you/

So Sarah Huckybooboo Sanders tweeted…

Except the “hotel” was the best little whorehouse in Canada. Yeah, she spelled brothel wrong.

Now considering what both Rudy and Trump said about Stormy Daniels, this may have been the coolest troll ever.

quakerboy

(13,921 posts)
47. That makes the whole blowup make much more sense
Tue Jun 12, 2018, 02:52 AM
Jun 2018

I would propose that probably trump never realized, he had to have it spelled out to him by one of his babysitters.

And that they only let him know after they were on the airplane flying away.

Because while I am sure that trump has surrounded himself with folks who compliment his splendorous, manly body and powerful not tiny at all fists on a daily basis, some of them have to be competent enough to know that if they told him and he attempted to bodily assault Trudeau, he would get his ass handed to him.

That said.. While I find it humorous, I also think it may be a very expensive joke, which I find unfortunate.

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