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I remember when I was learning about the Great Depression in school, I learned that at the time, people started calling newspapers "Hoover blankets" (because the homeless people sleeping on benches would cover themselves up with newspapers), and that this was one thing that really helped spread the public backlash against President Hoover. I think we should start doing the same thing for Trump. Let's start re-branding things with his name so the public never forgets who's to blame for all the outrages he's heaped upon us.
For example, I think we should start calling the child detention centers "Trump Tower Texas" or "The Trump Texan" or something along those lines (in the same spirit as "The Hanoi Hilton" . Anything else that we can attach Trump's name to in order to make him own it would be good too. It's all about branding, and we need to do a better of job of hanging these albatrosses around Trump's neck so people remember when they step into the voting booth.
lark
(23,105 posts)Call it what it is.
NeoGreen
(4,031 posts)MacKasey
(987 posts)Hotel Trump
MiniMe
(21,717 posts)Kids cheap!
The Velveteen Ocelot
(115,732 posts)They were makeshift camps where homeless people put shacks together, and there were many of them because homelessness had become rampant. Since Hoover was blamed for the Depression (and not without good reason), his name got attached to a lot of things: "Hoover blanket" (old newspaper used as blanketing), "Hoover flag" (an empty pocket turned inside out), "Hoover leather" (cardboard used to line a shoe with holes in the sole), and a "Hoover wagon" was an automobile with horses hitched to it because the owner could not afford gas. Call the detention camps "Trumpvilles." Call the mylar blankets the kids are given "Trump blankets." Keep the tradition going.
ChoppinBroccoli
(3,784 posts)I'm going to start using "Trumpville" every time I talk about this issue. Hopefully the name catches on.
ginnyinWI
(17,276 posts)He said he didn't want to make America into a camp for migrants.
So how about Trump's Migrant Camp. Trump's Migrant Resort. Trump's Kennels for Migrants.
global1
(25,253 posts)We need to also make the Repugs own this as well. Why do you think some of them are coming out against this Trump policy. They want to keep their jobs and power base. We need as much as possible to make the Repugs - who are really responsible for Trump in the first place - own this too.