General Discussion

Yo_Mama_Been_Loggin

(108,192 posts) Wed Dec 4, 2019, 10:19 PM Dec 2019

How two housekeepers took Trump -- and revealed that his company employed undocumented immigrants

BEDMINSTER TOWNSHIP, N.J. — It was important for Sandra Diaz to be invisible.

Before entering the Trump family villa, she would tie back her hair, pull on latex gloves and step into delicate paper shoe coverings. She knew not to wear makeup or perfume that might leave the faintest trace of her presence.

As Donald Trump’s personal maid, Diaz was dealing with a fussy celebrity owner who presided like a monarch over the Trump National Golf Club Bedminster long before he was elevated to president. She was an immigrant from Costa Rica working illegally for Trump with a fake Social Security card she had bought for $50. Being invisible was her life’s work.

Moving quickly through the two-story house in the mornings, Diaz carried out Trump’s fastidious instructions. In his closet, she would hang six sets of identical golf outfits: six white polo shirts, six pairs of beige pants, six neatly ironed pairs of boxer shorts. She would smear a dollop of Trump’s liquid face makeup on the back of her hand to make sure it hadn’t dried out.

The years of service that Diaz and other undocumented immigrant housekeepers, cooks, landscapers, greenskeepers, waiters, bellhops, farm hands and caddies devoted to the Trump Organization have given them a remarkable vantage point into the unvarnished lives of the now-first family. They have seen poolside tantrums and holiday arguments. They’ve laughed with the in-laws and watched after the grandkids.

Their recollections also show how Trump’s entrance into presidential politics — denouncing illegal immigrants as criminals and job-stealers — upended their lives and prompted some of them to publicly confront their former boss.

https://www.washingtonpost.com/politics/how-two-undocumented-housekeepers-took-on-the-president--and-revealed-trumps-long-term-reliance-on-illegal-immigrants/2019/12/04/3dff5b5c-0a15-11ea-bd9d-c628fd48b3a0_story.html?wpisrc=al_news__alert-economy--alert-politics--alert-national&wpmk=1

9 replies

= new reply since forum marked as read

Highlight:

How two housekeepers took Trump -- and revealed that his company employed undocumented immigrants (Original Post) Yo_Mama_Been_Loggin Dec 2019 OP

"six neatly ironed pairs of boxer shorts." what. no starch?? riversedge Dec 2019 #1

Nothing stiff in those pants...ugh I just grossed myself out 😬 MLAA Dec 2019 #2

"Nobody could wear the red hat but Trump" dalton99a Dec 2019 #3

Total putz. Karadeniz Dec 2019 #4

Ugh, what a disgusting pig. smirkymonkey Dec 2019 #8

The article made me very sad. People deserve respect, just because. crickets Dec 2019 #5

I threw up in my mouth a little UpInArms Dec 2019 #6

link works without everything after the "html" Hermit-The-Prog Dec 2019 #7

Story reaches accross the pond. Lock him up. Dec 2019 #9

riversedge

(70,299 posts)

1. "six neatly ironed pairs of boxer shorts." what. no starch??

Reply to Yo_Mama_Been_Loggin (Original post)

Wed Dec 4, 2019, 10:23 PM

Dec 2019

MLAA

(17,327 posts)

2. Nothing stiff in those pants...ugh I just grossed myself out 😬

Reply to riversedge (Reply #1)

Wed Dec 4, 2019, 10:27 PM

Dec 2019

dalton99a

(81,570 posts)

3. "Nobody could wear the red hat but Trump"

Reply to Yo_Mama_Been_Loggin (Original post)

Wed Dec 4, 2019, 10:29 PM

Dec 2019

Last edited Thu Dec 5, 2019, 01:15 AM - Edit history (1)

Trump and his family spent so much time at their properties — and still do — that many Trump Organization employees have stories about encounters with them. But the undocumented workers were often left to perform the most intimate and personal work. Those who cooked and served Trump knew that he liked his cheeseburgers well done and his Diet Coke in small glass bottles with a plastic straw that no one could be seen touching.

Trump loved Tic Tacs. But not an arbitrary amount. He wanted, in his bedroom bureau at all times, two full containers of white Tic Tacs and one container that was half full. The same rule applied to the Bronx Colors-brand face makeup from Switzerland that Trump slathered on — two full containers, one half full — even if it meant the housekeepers had to regularly bring new shirts from the pro shop because of the rust-colored stains on the collars. A special washing machine in the laundry room was reserved for his wife Melania Trump’s clothing.

Donald Trump liked Irish Spring bar soap in his shower. But his housekeepers quickly learned not to throw out his soap even if it had worn down to the tiniest sliver: Trump decided when he wanted something discarded. When that happened, with clothes or newspapers, he would toss them on the floor.

A regular recipient of Trump’s castoff clothing was Melania’s father, Viktor Knavs, Diaz and Morales said.

Karadeniz

(22,572 posts)

4. Total putz.

Reply to dalton99a (Reply #3)

Wed Dec 4, 2019, 10:33 PM

Dec 2019

smirkymonkey

(63,221 posts)

8. Ugh, what a disgusting pig.

Reply to dalton99a (Reply #3)

Thu Dec 5, 2019, 02:15 AM

Dec 2019

Everything about him is revolting.

crickets

(25,983 posts)

5. The article made me very sad. People deserve respect, just because.

Reply to Yo_Mama_Been_Loggin (Original post)

Wed Dec 4, 2019, 11:55 PM

Dec 2019

They deserve to be healthy, happy, and whole, just because. For me, the article is a stark reminder that two of Roosevelt's Four Freedoms are freedom from want and freedom from fear. I miss presidents who talk about such positive things and try to make them real for everyone... instead of puffing themselves up and destroying everything they touch.