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Our government upgrading Doral...!!! (Original Post) pbmus Oct 2019 OP
Not "our government, "we" dflprincess Oct 2019 #1
Unfrickinbelievable pbmus Oct 2019 #2
Will the House have to appropriate the money? dem4decades Oct 2019 #3
Good ?... pbmus Oct 2019 #5
They need to roll this in with the "THUG Act", blocking funds for improvements liberalla Oct 2019 #15
If still in office, he'll declare the need for emergency funding Marcuse Oct 2019 #20
Lie, cheat and steal is all he knows. dalton99a Oct 2019 #4
The man would sacrifice .99 cents just to get a dollar. lunatica Oct 2019 #7
We should have seen this coming. dixiegrrrrl Oct 2019 #16
She was on both Chris Hayes and Brian Williams last night. BigmanPigman Oct 2019 #6
Uh, no. We won't do that. Mersky Oct 2019 #8
I guess it's not so "perfect" after all, right Mick? StarfishSaver Oct 2019 #9
It's in the middle of a neighborhood. The Velveteen Ocelot Oct 2019 #10
Nice shot of the landfilll north of 58th street. Scurrilous Oct 2019 #11
Doral is that close to a dump?!?! Blue_playwright Oct 2019 #18
Some people say it is a dump. The Velveteen Ocelot Oct 2019 #22
Yep. Scurrilous Oct 2019 #24
That's why Stephanie was talking about adding up to two helipads... Wounded Bear Oct 2019 #21
Looks like you kacekwl Oct 2019 #26
This cannot be allowed to happen. How many millions of taxpayer dollars will be used smirkymonkey Oct 2019 #12
No tax payer money for Doral. ProudMNDemocrat Oct 2019 #13
I stayed there a few years ago. Its kind of a dump, really. Stinky The Clown Oct 2019 #14
I played on one of the golf courses about two years after Trump bought it. Blue_true Oct 2019 #17
Upgraded, then future G-whatevers held there. The ultimate grift. SMC22307 Oct 2019 #19
Camp David Generic Other Oct 2019 #23
Fuck Trump AND his properties Skittles Oct 2019 #25

liberalla

(9,249 posts)
15. They need to roll this in with the "THUG Act", blocking funds for improvements
Sat Oct 19, 2019, 06:57 PM
Oct 2019

and/or remodeling of the Doral property.

No money to improve or 'prepare' the property for G7, and
No money to pay for hosting the G7 conference, and all that may include...

dixiegrrrrl

(60,010 posts)
16. We should have seen this coming.
Sat Oct 19, 2019, 07:31 PM
Oct 2019


Of course he would steal as much tax money as he could.

I'm out of words concerning him.

BigmanPigman

(51,611 posts)
6. She was on both Chris Hayes and Brian Williams last night.
Sat Oct 19, 2019, 06:08 PM
Oct 2019

She did the research and the math. He gets a remodel at his club paid for by our tax dollars.

Mersky

(4,982 posts)
8. Uh, no. We won't do that.
Sat Oct 19, 2019, 06:12 PM
Oct 2019

World leaders, please remain flexible. WE can do better than, eh, letting y’all be Doral’d.

The Velveteen Ocelot

(115,735 posts)
10. It's in the middle of a neighborhood.
Sat Oct 19, 2019, 06:31 PM
Oct 2019

How can they provide security, not to mention manage the traffic, without making the whole city unliveable? Not to mention that it's very close to Miami Airport, which means it will be noisy, unless there's a TFR that shuts air traffic down altogether.

Wounded Bear

(58,670 posts)
21. That's why Stephanie was talking about adding up to two helipads...
Sat Oct 19, 2019, 08:57 PM
Oct 2019

prior to the event, and of course, taking them out later, and necessitating a full on upgrade to the golf links.

There's method to Trump's madness, and madness to his method.

 

smirkymonkey

(63,221 posts)
12. This cannot be allowed to happen. How many millions of taxpayer dollars will be used
Sat Oct 19, 2019, 06:44 PM
Oct 2019

to upgrade this failing, infested dump so that he can turn a profit on our dime? It makes me sick that it is even being considered. People need to start standing up to this fat fuck because he is getting too bold and there is no telling what he will do next. He needs to be put in his place. We can't expect Nancy to be the only one to stand up to him.

Stinky The Clown

(67,808 posts)
14. I stayed there a few years ago. Its kind of a dump, really.
Sat Oct 19, 2019, 06:50 PM
Oct 2019

I stayed there quite some time before Trump came down the escalator with what we now know was his bought and paid for arm candy illegal immigrant wife. Long before he was more than just another asshole.

The "bungalows" look more like two story Motel 6 partially prefab buildings. Everywhere you went on the property it looked worn out and threadbare. The landscaping looked poorly maintained. Out the back of the "bungalow" in which we stayed was an active neighborhood road separated by a chain link fence.

Overall, it felt drab. The golf course (I am not a golfer) looked flat and I have to assume boring. There was bare dirt in the lawn near the pro shop. An ordinary golf shirt with the Trump logo and made in China was $150. I would guess Kohl's had the same thing, but lacking the logo for $20-ish.

Anyway, I failed to feel impressed with anything. Just seemed dreary.

Blue_true

(31,261 posts)
17. I played on one of the golf courses about two years after Trump bought it.
Sat Oct 19, 2019, 08:45 PM
Oct 2019

I remember someone in my foursome telling me that Trump owned it. I really didn't know much about him at the time.

Everything about it was second rate when compared to the other resort courses that I had played on. The practice range was horrible. The course seemed minimally maintained, it had Bermuda grass that really have to have the maintenance crew stay on top of it, the course clearly didn't have that going on. There were big sand spots everywhere and the course drainage was horrible. I remember thinking, as I shook hands with my playing partners on the 18th green, what a waste of money playing there was. I didn't bother going to any 19th hole they had, my belief is it would have sucked.

I remember that one of my playing partners was a government official from Brazil or Argentina, I forget which one. He was in the area for some international event and wanted to get in a round of golf. I remember how excited he was to play the course, but as we progressed in play, he was vocal about how much the course sucked, at one point saying that if he knew, he would have played elsewhere.

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