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HAB911

(8,914 posts)
Thu Aug 17, 2017, 12:35 PM Aug 2017

Cleveland Clinic pulls gala from Trump's Mar-a-Lago

WASHINGTON -- The Cleveland Clinic is cutting another tie to President Donald Trump, canceling plans to hold its 2018 Florida fundraising gala from the Trump-owned Mar-a-Lago club in Palm Beach.

"After careful consideration, Cleveland Clinic has decided that it will not hold a Florida fundraiser at Mar-a-Lago in 2018," the hospital system said in a statement. "We thank the staff of Mar-a-Lago for their service over the years."

The Clinic and its CEO, Toby Cosgrove, had taken criticism for continuing to hold the annual event there.

The exit follows a decision by Cosgrove and top executives of some of the nation's leading corporations on Wednesday to disband a business advisory council that reported to the president. They said Trump's recent comments on last weekend's violence in Virginia by neo-Nazis and Ku Klux Klan supporters were inappropriate and didn't represent the values for which they and their organizations stood.

https://articles.cleveland.com/metro/index.ssf/2017/08/cleveland_clinic_pulls_fund-ra.amp

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Cleveland Clinic pulls gala from Trump's Mar-a-Lago (Original Post) HAB911 Aug 2017 OP
No human being should eat at or stay at or golf at any property Eliot Rosewater Aug 2017 #1
Exactly Johnny2X2X Aug 2017 #7
Agree workinclasszero Aug 2017 #8
Wow, this whole nazi sympathizer clusterfuck looks like it may just be what torpedoes catbyte Aug 2017 #2
About damn time dalton99a Aug 2017 #3
It took Nazis to do it -- they should be ashamed it took so long obamanut2012 Aug 2017 #4
Disgraceful dalton99a Aug 2017 #10
My thought exactly. pangaia Aug 2017 #15
About damn time ebbie15644 Aug 2017 #5
Last year: Trump interviews Cleveland Clinic CEO to be a Cabinet member. DesertRat Aug 2017 #6
Finally! sinkingfeeling Aug 2017 #9
We need to find out what other big companies are holding conferences at tRump properties flibbitygiblets Aug 2017 #11
Fantastic! Too bad a lot of companies and organizations don't boycott all of his properties BigmanPigman Aug 2017 #12
It's about fucking time Toby! WTF? Kleveland Aug 2017 #13
drumpf does not stand for any American values at all, none. lark Aug 2017 #14
How could a med. institution afford Mar-A-Lago, in the 1st place? Honeycombe8 Aug 2017 #16
You have no idea just how deep the pockets of Cleveland Clinic are. Kleveland Aug 2017 #20
NOW it is time for the Red Cross to do the same next year. BumRushDaShow Aug 2017 #17
The top of the medical profession is like the top of anything else bucolic_frolic Aug 2017 #18
Trump lawsuit coming soon. NastyRiffraff Aug 2017 #19

Eliot Rosewater

(31,121 posts)
1. No human being should eat at or stay at or golf at any property
Thu Aug 17, 2017, 12:43 PM
Aug 2017

that is owned by even 1% by any trump or kushner.

These are traitors and nazi sympathizers.

No decent person will do anything but spit on their property.

Johnny2X2X

(19,114 posts)
7. Exactly
Thu Aug 17, 2017, 12:55 PM
Aug 2017

Trump and his closest allies are Nazi sympathizers and White Supremacists, the country needs to respond accordingly.

catbyte

(34,451 posts)
2. Wow, this whole nazi sympathizer clusterfuck looks like it may just be what torpedoes
Thu Aug 17, 2017, 12:50 PM
Aug 2017

Twitler's "brand." Oh sure, his cultists will always love him, but I doubt they have the where with all to stay at his $750/night Washington boondoggle or buy Ivanka's overpriced ripoff designer shoes. I won't be satisfied until I see that rat bastard frog marched into state prison, but, failing that, it will be awesome to see him reduced to "developing" Trump Taj Mahal Luxury Trailer Park in Bumfuck, AL.

DesertRat

(27,995 posts)
6. Last year: Trump interviews Cleveland Clinic CEO to be a Cabinet member.
Thu Aug 17, 2017, 12:54 PM
Aug 2017

This week: CEO bashes racism, Clinic pulls event from Mar-a-Lago.


flibbitygiblets

(7,220 posts)
11. We need to find out what other big companies are holding conferences at tRump properties
Thu Aug 17, 2017, 02:27 PM
Aug 2017

(other than foreign governments of course), and put on the pressure.

BigmanPigman

(51,627 posts)
12. Fantastic! Too bad a lot of companies and organizations don't boycott all of his properties
Thu Aug 17, 2017, 02:49 PM
Aug 2017

and products. Every single person should do the same...hit their whole family in their bank accounts. That is what they live for...MONEY!

Kleveland

(1,257 posts)
13. It's about fucking time Toby! WTF?
Thu Aug 17, 2017, 02:51 PM
Aug 2017

I, as a Clevelander have been appalled that his "gala" event was not cancelled long ago.

There is nothing about the current administration that is in any way aligned with the values at Cleveland Clinic.

I was an employee there for a while, and the staff there comes from all over the world.

You don't even think about such things when you are involved working there.

Everyone just gets along, and does their duty to humanity and healing.

I cannot speak for all of the board members there, there are some dubious individuals who only seem to care about money.

To be clear, it is my understanding that Cleveland Clinic is not non-profit, it is not-for-profit, meaning that it can make a profit, and invest those profits in itself.



lark

(23,156 posts)
14. drumpf does not stand for any American values at all, none.
Thu Aug 17, 2017, 03:02 PM
Aug 2017

Greed isn't a value and that's the main thrust of his life, pretty much his reason d'etre (sorry no correct accent on this keyboard). Hate, vindictiveness, violence, loathing of everyone not a white male, criminality and fascism, these drivers of his behavior are not values, just the opposite.

He cares nothing for this country, it's history, it's values or even it's very existence. He does love flattery and since the racists love him, he loves them back. He's that simple-minded and needy.

Kleveland

(1,257 posts)
20. You have no idea just how deep the pockets of Cleveland Clinic are.
Thu Aug 17, 2017, 10:07 PM
Aug 2017

Seriously.... I was there for several years.

They got money like you would not believe.

They have investments, and interests world wide.

They have Saudis and UAE as patients, who rent out several floors in the Intercontinental hotel on campus.

I could tell some odd stories.

I am no longer stationed there because I offended fucking Saudis.
( I have absolutely no love for the Saudi regime. I think they are responsible for very much suffering in the world. They are greedy fundamentalists, and uncaring about the rest of us).

It's all about the money baby.

But, they do have amazing doctors, and the best heart specialists you can find.

Sometimes you just gotta' go with the flow, and the greater good.

They do much good for many seriously ill people, who had no hope.

Angioplasty was created there, as are many other significant medical advances.

Life is weird.



BumRushDaShow

(129,458 posts)
17. NOW it is time for the Red Cross to do the same next year.
Thu Aug 17, 2017, 03:32 PM
Aug 2017

And I don't give a damn whether that place WAS the ARC founder's home in the past. The place has been defiled.

bucolic_frolic

(43,287 posts)
18. The top of the medical profession is like the top of anything else
Thu Aug 17, 2017, 03:35 PM
Aug 2017

loaded with money, and not knowing what to do with it. Conferences, luxury hotels, junkets,
limousines. Find me a company or industry operating lean without palatial headquarters. They would
have the most dedicated employees.

NastyRiffraff

(12,448 posts)
19. Trump lawsuit coming soon.
Thu Aug 17, 2017, 05:15 PM
Aug 2017

We've already had one from the do-nothing first lady, why not the pretend president?

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