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Related: Editorials & Other Articles, Issue Forums, Alliance Forums, Region ForumsOh dear lord, is Donald Trump ever a douchebag. A horrible, horrible, terrible douchebag.
Last edited Fri Jan 16, 2015, 05:24 PM - Edit history (1)
The story:
http://money.cnn.com/2015/01/13/luxury/trump-palm-beach-lawsuit/
Donald Trump sues 'malicious' Palm Beach airport for $100 million
By Aaron Smith @AaronSmithCNN January 13, 2015: 3:28 PM ET
Donald Trump has sued Palm Beach County in Florida for $100 million and accused the county-run airport of deliberately sending air traffic over his historic mansion and private club.
Trump specifically called out the local airport director Bruce Pelly for diverting all departing flights over the Mar-a-Lago mansion, to seek revenge over a 20-year-old lawsuit.
"The county's and Bruce Pelly's efforts in this regard are both deliberate and malicious, and motivated by personal animosity towards Donald Trump," reads the lawsuit, which was filed in Palm Beach County Court on Jan. 6.
The lawsuit says Pelly wants to get back at Trump for suing him in 1995 and blocking his plans to expand the airport.
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So, Donald Trump is suing an airport because...let me get this straight....airplanes fly over his precious house?
Well, then, sign me up. Because I see airplanes fly over my house all the time as well!
Hemorrhoids serve more useful purposes to society than Donald Trump.
blackcrow
(156 posts)That is, the wind's effect on planes, not Trump's wind, pretty much determines what direction planes take off in.
pinboy3niner
(53,339 posts)lovemydog
(11,833 posts)randys1
(16,286 posts)Donald Trump made his fortune using thugs to run old people out of their homes.
Donald Trump is a very very bad man.
arcane1
(38,613 posts)sharp_stick
(14,400 posts)is that he bought that gaudy shithole in 1985, the airport was built in 1936 and has it's main runway facing right at mar-a-lago since then. So, leaning on my many years as nobody, I figure the dumb fuck should have known, based on 30 years of Goddamned air traffic that fucking airplanes are going over top.
dixiegrrrrl
(60,010 posts)and uses that same airport.
So he is complaining about over head flights even when he is flying over someone else's house.
unblock
(52,253 posts)from your link:
The lawsuit claims the mansion is "by far and away the most important historical structure in Palm Beach and one of the most important in Florida and, indeed, the United States."
pinboy3niner
(53,339 posts)unblock
(52,253 posts)FSogol
(45,488 posts)pipi_k
(21,020 posts)KamaAina
(78,249 posts)Apparently The Douchebag was an early adopter of hair plug technology, before they'd gotten all the kinks out of it. What you see today is the result.
Hekate
(90,714 posts)He'd be better off with a Yul Brynner or Tele Savalas, but nothing can take the ugly out of Trump's expression or personality.
dixiegrrrrl
(60,010 posts)tblue37
(65,403 posts)treestar
(82,383 posts)tridim
(45,358 posts)Thus "Personal animosity towards Donald Trump" should be a law.
olddots
(10,237 posts)He is a carpet scrap on a fresh pile of shit that gets stuck in all our sneakers .
unblock
(52,253 posts)in all of american history!
just ask him!
Warren Stupidity
(48,181 posts)But you are Punching Up, so it is probably ok.
The rulez are confusing.
Gothmog
(145,313 posts)This means that the ratings for his show are bad and so he is trying to generate some press coverage
pangaia
(24,324 posts)I live about, oh, 25 mile from Rochester Int Airport..NY.
Many flights from the three NYC airports that have filed for the RWY 22 ILS approach, or the RNAV RWY 22 approach, for that matter, are vectored over my house.
Also, almost all flights departing RWY 22 and going to the NYC airports are vectored over my house.
I also am on the final approach course and departure routes for Canadian Geese arriving and departing one of the Finger Lakes.
NEVER, EVER look up when geese are about to fly over you !! Once they ARE over you it is safe.
shraby
(21,946 posts)replace some of it.
BrotherIvan
(9,126 posts)The whooped his ass.
Divernan
(15,480 posts)Trump's boasts draw laughs in Scottish parliament
(AP) EDINBURGH, Scotland - He came, he saw, he blustered.
Donald Trump on Wednesday swept into Scotland's parliament to demand the country end plans for an offshore wind farm he fears will spoil the view at his exclusive new $750-million-pound ($1.2-billion) golf resort.
In a typically blunt display, the New York property tycoon told an inquiry into renewable energy to stop the wind power efforts in the country's north.
"Scotland, if you pursue this policy of these monstrous turbines, Scotland will go broke," he said. "They are ugly, they are noisy and they are dangerous. If Scotland does this, Scotland will be in serious trouble and will lose tourism to places like Ireland, and they are laughing at us."
Members of the committee are looking at how achievable the Scottish government's green targets for 2020 are. The plans for 11 200-foot tall wind turbines are part of the government's goal of positioning itself as a leader in renewable energy.
When challenged to produce hard evidence about his claims on the negative impact of turbines, Trump said: "I am the evidence, I am a world class expert in tourism."
The public gallery burst into laughter.
http://www.cbsnews.com/news/trumps-boasts-draw-laughs-in-scottish-parliament/
BrotherIvan
(9,126 posts)That ass needs to be laughed out of every room!
Hekate
(90,714 posts)gregcrawford
(2,382 posts)... he is the king bullgoose looney EMPEROR of Anuses. All those planes "deliberately" fly over his absurdly ostentatious sideshow of a mansion because it is in a DIRECT LINE with the fucking runway! May he choke on his comb-over.
Johonny
(20,851 posts)after all this is a post 9-11 world. We need to make sure those planes are safe.
The Velveteen Ocelot
(115,732 posts)Airport managers don't control air traffic. Air traffic controllers, employees of the FAA, do that, based on prevailing winds, published departure procedures, and other traffic. And private parties suing because they don't like airplanes flying over their houses almost invariably lose.
It's an FAA regulation violation to drop stuff out of airplanes onto people's houses, but it would be tempting to take a chance anyhow, and drop a huge sack of raw sewage into The Donald's swimming pool.
SummerSnow
(12,608 posts)Look at that scary shit!
lovemydog
(11,833 posts)of emotional distress. I'll join you in a class action lawsuit against him, SummerSnow.
SummerSnow
(12,608 posts)lovemydog
(11,833 posts)SummerSnow
(12,608 posts)lovemydog
(11,833 posts)hatrack
(59,587 posts)dixiegrrrrl
(60,010 posts)lovemydog
(11,833 posts)It can never be repeated enough.
All those rich right wing people publicly criticize our litigious society. Then they tie up the courts with malicious litigation whenever they feel like it. Hypocrite.
John1956PA
(2,655 posts)It surprises me that his bilious personality has not caused him to suffer physical setbacks.
Jack Rabbit
(45,984 posts)!!
Kalidurga
(14,177 posts)Jack Rabbit
(45,984 posts)Je suis Charlie.
SummerSnow
(12,608 posts)MissB
(15,810 posts)(I tried to find the other Trump thread on DU because someone else pointed this out)
http://155.178.201.160/d-tpp/1501/00449IVNKA.PDF
moondust
(19,993 posts)that God has absolutely nothing to do with who gets rich and who doesn't--that Calvinism is bunk.
sabrina 1
(62,325 posts)over the US Open in the middle of a game, causing the players to have to stop playing while he beamed as people watched in disgust.
Gothmog
(145,313 posts)Outburst like this usually signals bad ratings on his dumb show and an attempt to generate press and ratings
hifiguy
(33,688 posts)as their ultimate role model. One of the 25 or so biggest wastes of oxygen on the planet.
The Velveteen Ocelot
(115,732 posts)The douchebag di tutti douchebags. When you look up "douchebag" in the dictionary his picture is there. I can't think of anyone else who has turned douchebaggery into a kind of performance art the way he has.
spanone
(135,844 posts)jberryhill
(62,444 posts)He's a really good douchebag.
It's one of his few talents.