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KamaAina

(78,249 posts)
Wed Dec 9, 2015, 05:58 PM Dec 2015

Trump Set To Lose A Fortune As Muslim Business Partners Begin Boycott

http://www.occupydemocrats.com/trump-set-to-lose-a-fortune-as-muslim-business-partners-begin-boycott/

Donald Trump clearly hasn’t learned any lessons from the backlash he suffered for his crude and offensive remarks against Latinos. After he doubled down on his declarations that Mexicans were “criminals and rapists,” a number of his business partners cut ties and sent shock-waves through his already-shaky “business empire.” Now that he’s decided he wants to ban all Muslims from entering the United States, his business partners in the Muslim world, who have made Trump millions, are furious and beginning to cut their own ties to rambunctious demagogue.

Arabian Business has reported that the regional retail powerhouse Landmark Group has stopped selling Trump’s products in over 160 stores from Libya to Pakistan....

Khalaf al-Habtoor, the owner of the United Arab Emirates-based conglomerate Al Habtoor Group, told the Associated Press that he has rescinded his previous support for Trump and is furious at the mogul for his disgusting statements:...

If there’s anything that might convince Trump to turn down his racist rhetoric, it’ll be hitting him at the source of all his strength and credibility – his wealth and “reputation” as a businessman. Tell us, Mr. Trump: what part of the “Art of the Deal” involves alienating your financiers and millions of potential customers with unnecessary and offensive xenophobic scapegoating?


Apparently Nelson Muntz has converted to Islam.

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Trump Set To Lose A Fortune As Muslim Business Partners Begin Boycott (Original Post) KamaAina Dec 2015 OP
Money is the only thing he knows Sanity Claws Dec 2015 #1
Kickin' Faux pas Dec 2015 #2
Not a good group to offend when one is in the construction business LittleBlue Dec 2015 #3
This will further endear him to his central scrutinizer Dec 2015 #4
good. there should be consequences for his kind of hate. spanone Dec 2015 #5
OK genius. Let's see you talk your way out of this one. lpbk2713 Dec 2015 #6
Hasn't he filed for bankruptcy before? yuiyoshida Dec 2015 #7
Only four times. KamaAina Dec 2015 #8
This makes me feel good. lovemydog Dec 2015 #9

central scrutinizer

(11,661 posts)
4. This will further endear him to his
Wed Dec 9, 2015, 07:37 PM
Dec 2015

Xenophobic, racist core. Only people with IQs above room temperature think this is a mistake

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