Ok DUers, How Many of You Have Bought tRump Brand, Stayed in a tRump Hotel?

[ProudLib72]

How many of you have either personally bought or know someone who has bought a tRump brand product, stayed in one of the tRump hotels, or eaten at a tRump restaurant? The de-branding of tRump Panama made me think of this. His brand is now anathema to all but the most toxic deplorables, but it wasn't always that way. So fess up. What did you buy? Where did you stay? And how awful was it?

[LisaM]

1. No, in fact, I find his properties in appalling bad taste.

I've seen buildings in New York and Chicago, and they are both awful in the extreme.

[ProudLib72]

2. I agree

But there may be people who had to stay at a hotel or had to eat at a restaurant because of their company's booking agent or relatives chose the venue.

[redstatebluegirl]

4. I saw one of the rooms in the one in Chicago.

I went to pick up a friend who was staying there, it was so trashy just like anything he has any interest in. Gaudy with a capital G.

[LisaM]

8. Once on HGTV on "Next Design Star", they had the contestants decorate a Trump apartment.

The dark-haired spawn, Don, Jr., I think, was one of the judges, and made a lot of unintentionally hilarious comments about the designs being "good enough" to represent the Trump brand and a bunch of other nonsense. I remember the episode because it was so ridiculous.

[jmowreader]

46. You realize that could have been a LOT of fun!

Give me a can of black paint, 56 feet of closet rod, five 2x2s and a 1x6, and I can produce a very good simulation of a cell door.

[LisaM]

47. It would be a lot of fun NOW!

I don't know if it was the apartment itself, or a lack of caring on the part of the contestants, but I remember none of them looked good!

[jmowreader]

50. Let's play with this...

An apartment meant to express the personal style of the owner, when the owner is Donald Trump? Hmm...

First, install wainscoting and chair rail. Paint the walls above the chair rail ivory. The wainscoting gets a coat of mahogany stain. Finish by painting all the moulding gold.

Replace all the faucets and toilet levers with gold-plated ones. The sinks and toilets themselves will be an elegant black.

In the kitchen, install separate refrigerator and freezer units. Remove the range because no one's ever going to use it anyway - Big Macs come precooked. In its place, install a humidity-and-temperature controlled system for keeping baked goods at their optimum freshness.

The kitchen table will be huge and mahogany. The chairs will have gold-plated bases and leather upholstery. All the furniture will be leather-upholstered.

Place jade plants (also known as "money plants&quot all over the house.

The bedroom will have a mirrored ceiling and a round bed. An apothecary jar of gold-wrapped chocolate coins and a phone charging stand will be on the nightstand next to his side. On her side will be an apothecary jar full of condoms, just in case his micropenis decides to work tonight.

[LisaM]

61. LOL. And a jar of Viagra.

Had we known then (this was in 2010) what we know now, the project would have been markedly different.

[Ilsa]

83. No wine, steaks, hats, hotels, Ivanka crap, etc here. nt

[world wide wally]

3. NEVER once!

[flibbitygiblets]

5. Good lord no. I refuse to even use the word "tRump" in the form of a verb.

Instead I've started calling it "drumph". As in, "my logic drumphs yours".

[sinkingfeeling]

6. Not me.

[CatMor]

7. I have never stayed in a trump hotel or bought a trump brand anything...

and I never will.

[Canoe52]

9. I quit staying at tRump hotels, I do miss the gold toilets however...

Just kidding, I’ve never even walked by one!

[ProudLib72]

54. Just once, huh? Like staying at Baltic Avenue after someone has gone through

with a can of gold spray paint.

[Binkie The Clown]

10. Living in a Trump-free zone, I haven't even seen Trump products or hotels. nt

[tirebiter]

11. Does Trump make car parts, theater equipment, or tools for either?

If not then no.

[el_bryanto]

12. I tried to play the Trump Board game

But my brother thought it looked stupid - in fariness I was at an age when everything in a box looked fun to me.

Bryant

[Gothmog]

13. In the 1990s, I was one of the few people to fly Trump Air

There were four passengers and six flight attendants on that flight. Everyone knew that this airline was going to go bankrupted.

[mountain grammy]

43. No kidding

[ProudLib72]

57. Whoa! Someone finally comes clean!

But I bet they served the best taco bowls for an inflight meal.

[ExciteBike66]

14. I was given several of his ties for Christmas one year.

I actually love showing them off since they say "Made in China" on the back...

[eissa]

15. NEVER!

He and his family have always repulsed me, going back to the 80s. I was once shopping at Nordstrom's and saw this dress which I admittedly thought was pretty nice, but the minute I saw Ivanka's name on it, I immediately put it back.

[JPK]

16. I have, once recently

I stayed because it was for work and the client chose the hotel certainly not me. It was at the old Washington Post Office building in DC. In the lobby it is quite nice. The rooms are pretty gaudy though with gold crap everywhere. Everything is expensive. A domestic beer is $8.00, cocktails, $18.00. Steak was $50 and up depending which one you wanted. It think it went over $100. It did have a nice large screen tv with full cable. The in room bar was pricy as well. It had a nice small bottle of single malt scotch for $150 and a small bottle of bourbon for around $60. The coffee maker was a kind of mini Keurig kind of thing that made a demitasse cup of expresso. Would have preferred a real cup of Joe in the morning though. The bed was too soft for my likes. The service was good. A bed turn down in the evening with a chocolate. You had to tip around five people just to get to your room when you check in.

Overall if it wasn't for the name on the building it would have been an ok stay. Except for all the gold shit. Glad I wasn't footing the bill.

[ProudLib72]

59. Please tell me you could change the TV channel from Faux Nooze

I have this image of someone throwing dollar bills everywhere "tipping" people. Gold colored crap, expensive drinks. Sounds akin to a strip club, actually.

[JPK]

94. Actually....

...I felt a sort of revenge by watching MSNBC all the time I was there.

[jberryhill]

17. I wandered through the Trump Taj Mahal casino once years ago

I used to have an annual ritual of going up to Atlantic City on Good Friday to play horses at Caesar's to commemorate the Roman guards gambling for Jesus' clothes, so I'm pretty sure I took a peek inside to see if their race book was any better.

[nolabear]

18. No. I have been in Trump Tower. Its a mall.

I know the upper floors are offices and the Golden Palace but seriously, it’s a mall. I may have bought something but not anything noteworthy or memorable.

[anarch]

19. I used to have an ugly yellow tie that was his brand...

But I didn't buy it myself, and I'm pretty sure it came from some kind of discount/factory-defects kind of store. It was really long.

I don't know what became of it. Nowadays, I refuse to use the name in speech or text...can't stand to even look at the fucker or hear his voice, but honestly it had been like that for many years...he just wasn't forced on us so much before...

[hamsterjill]

20. Never

I despised his ugly ass even before the Russians put him in the Oval Office.

[cally]

21. Recently walked into Trump Towers

Pretty tacky place. Did not buy anything but did use the toilet!

[ProudLib72]

63. So literally taking a dump on tRump?

If I still lived in CT, I might have to take a field trip down to NY to do the same!

[TeamPooka]

22. 5 years ago on a trip back East to visit our parents my wife and I took a day/night in Atlantic City

for ourselves before flying home to California.
We stayed at the Trump Taj Mahal I think.
I was the Trump Something.
She booked the place.
It was a nice room.
Kind of a "modern" take on mid century modern design in the room.
It was a Sunday night and it was dead and rainy in AC.
We ate at the steakhouse and it was very nice.
The casino was slow but we had fun anyway, walked on the Boardwalk, looked at the ocean.
It was a nice night.
We are the target customer Trump used to have.
Middle aged, doing well, travel a lot for business and fun.
Didn't care about his TV show or ignorance at the time.
Just wanted a nice upscale hotel for the night.
That's what we got.
And we would never do that again at a Trump Property for the rest of our lives.
I took all the Trump soaps and shampoos when we checked out and threw them in my travel bag.
Got a lot of those at home.

Fast forward to last June, we bought a new house and moved.
While packing I found the Trump soaps, shampoos and conditioners etc from that weekend in a box with a bunch of other hotel soaps in the bathroom.
I have been using them to drive a co-worker crazy who hates Trump more than anything by leaving one on his desk or in his drawers every now and then.
He doesn't know who has been tormenting him with these Trump items so SHHHHH!

[LanternWaste]

32. That's just mean. Funny as hell, but mean.

That's just mean (your joke vs. your coworker). Funny as hell, but mean.

[ProudLib72]

65. That's hilarious

I'd probably gift them forward or maybe leave them in the mailbox of a trumpanzee.

Still mean, though.

[TeamPooka]

69. ...

[Exotica]

23. Nope, we don't do shithole.

[Squinch]

24. No. Because of the cooties.

[Demsrule86]

25. I went to High School in Connecticut. Trump is very much disliked in the New York area. He

bankrupted several of my Dad's friends...Dad detested him...I never never liked him or bought his shit. He is also a pig and would make obscene comments to women he didn't know.

[TeamPooka]

28. I'm from Fairfield County CT originally and there we know that Trump and Martha Stewart are the two

biggest deadbeats in the world.
If you get into business or get hired by them you get screwed.
Martha has to go all the way to NY for lawn service guys now because she has stiffed every guy in CT that owns a lawnmower.

[Demsrule86]

29. I went to high school in Ridgefield...worked in Stamford.

[iwillalwayswonderwhy]

26. I won a national award with my company

The home office of the company was Chicago. The awards dinner was in Trump Tower in Chicago. I don’t really remember much about the meal. I was more interested in going to a jazz club afterwards.

[Farmer-Rick]

82. Oh Jazz in Chicago can't beat it.

[Nevernose]

27. It was very nice and well run

And before he went off the deep end.

We got married on an off-weekend, so the room was dirt cheap. Three night staycation (we live in Las Vegas).

Everything was luxurious. The TV behind the mirror in the bathroom was cheesy, but cool, and there was definitely too much gold trim. But sheets and towels and pillows were as good as they get; the couch and the room service was equally good.

What I noticed, though, that made it good was a tiny little detail: in the morning there was a newspaper in front of every room’s door. Californians got the LA Times, NY metropolitans got the NY Times, flyover states all got USA Today, and we had the sole Las Vegas newspaper on the floor.

[petronius]

48. That newspaper thing is extremely cool! I'm sure nobody named Trump was

involved, but at least they (accidentally?) hired one creative person...

[Awsi Dooger]

30. I bought a Doral golf shirt on eBay a few years ago

The description and picture said nothing about Trump. But when the shirt arrived it said Trump Doral on the sleeve.

I never wear it.

[LanternWaste]

31. His products are just too damned tacky for me. Too... Vegas.

His products are just too damned tacky for me. Too... Vegas.

I get it... lots of people think Vegas-chic is a standard to be achieved, but it comes across vulgar and tasteless to my eyes.

I'm more of an 'elegant economy and genteel poverty' kind of guy who'd rather do a small bed and breakfast in Fredericksburg, Texas than a full suite of gaudy furniture, boorish decorating and loutish neighbors pretending to be kings for the weekend.

[smirkymonkey]

33. Never have, never will.

[ProudLib72]

86. Would you accept a gift of tRump brand scotch?

It was aged three days in a Russian bathtub that may or may not have been contaminated with polonium! Very exciting taste!

[smirkymonkey]

88. Well....that is tempting.

But I have my principles. No Trump products for me!

[louis-t]

34. 15 years ago, I bought 2 polo shirts that were on sale for $17 each.

The tags said medium, but they were at least XL. Made in Malaysia, I think. Gave one away and can't wear the other one.

[ProudLib72]

68. Of course they were "medium"

He's only 239 lbs and wears a "medium" everything.

[louis-t]

93. And he's 6'3".

[democratisphere]

35. I would rather starve and suffer from sleep deprivation before having anything to do with drumpf!

[samnsara]

36. no nada never ever...

..way back when he was married to Ivana i was disgusted with that mans ego...

[onecaliberal]

37. No. Never

[Siwsan]

38. I once saw some trump* brand bed sheets on clearance at Ollie's Discount store

Didn't buy them. And not just because they were the color of old celery.

[Yavin4]

39. I took a pee in his Soho hotel

Which isn't in SoHo by the way.

[onenote]

66. Not only is it not in Soho, as of the end of 2017, it's not a Trump hotel anymore

http://money.cnn.com/2017/12/20/news/trump-soho-dominick-hotel/index.html

[Yavin4]

67. Oh snap! He probably taped me peeing and jerked off to it! n/t

[C_U_L8R]

40. Never. His tacky brand always repulsed me.

Overgilt cheap crap.

[bluestarone]

41. NOPE NEVER!

[The_Casual_Observer]

42. The trump tower lobby thing smells like an indoor pool at a Holiday Inn.

A lot of shops with nothing that I would be interested in buying and some kind of restaurant area in the stench of the chlorine. I'd never go back in there again.

[syringis]

44. Never !

The simple idea gives me nausea !

[ProudLib72]

70. But surely the tRump Eiffel tower restaurant!

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Now there is a bill!



BTW: I know it's not really his restaurant. I was just imagining he probably wishes it were his.

[mindfulNJ]

45. I went to a Trump casino in Atlantic City once

back in the 90's I think. We got off an elevator and there was this giant poster of Trump's personal yacht "The Trump Princess" or something like that. We all laughed at what a giant egomaniac Trump was to put a poster up of one of his personal possessions at one of his places of business. We left and went somewhere else. I've thought he was an ass ever since.

[Amimnoch]

49. I had bought some of his business attire in the past.

Long before his running though.

[Vinca]

51. I sell antiques and collectibles and at some point I picked up a first edition

of his stupid book on the cheap for resale. It didn't sell. LOL. I ended up taking it to the dump.

[ProudLib72]

71. Signed in crayon by Donald tRump: else fine

[Trumpocalypse]

52. Never

even refused to watch his tv show

[MrScorpio]

53. Around 1990-something we walked into that Trump casino at the Boardwalk in AC

It was off-season and practically empty, and yet the security felt that they had to card me. I’ve never been carded in any other casino ever. The whole thing smelled like racial discrimination, but I chilled about that.

I showed them my military card and asked them that since I was closer to thirty years old than I was to twenty, does this look like I’m underaged?

After that bullshit we walked out of out of that shithole and I’ve never been inside anything with Trump’s name on it since.

When it went bankrupt years later, that wasn’t a surprise to me at all.

[TeamPooka]

75. That wasn't racial. That was cause guys like me had been playing there underage all through the 80s

I was a tall 16 years old the first time I walked into the Trump Plaza.
They let me play there for the next 5 years.
The AC casinos were easy on age back in the day then they got caught and carded you.
By the time I was legal I preferred Trump Castle.
I won a lot of money there at craps over the years.
just lucky but always been happy I took so much cash from trump.
.

[hedda_foil]

55. I stayed at the Plaza for a nghtwhile he owned it. Ivana decorated it very tastefully.

I wonder if that's why he dumped her.

We had a meeting with Citibank and they had a deal with the Plaza for $99 a night.

[Heddi]

56. I got a groupon for the Trump Taj Mahal in Atlantic City in 2013ish

I guess as far as atlantic city casinos go, well, meh. I mean, the check in line was abysmal, and the table games were nonexistent. The room overlooked the ocean which was nice, considering we got the room at a steep discount thanks to groupon. Other than that, I found the room at Circus Circus in Las Vegas to be nicer. Then again, I thought Atlantic City was perhaps the most boring place I'd ever been and was happy to get out of there and back to Philadelphia when the weekend was over.

[Brother Buzz]

58. I admit I've been scouring the thrift stores for a Trump branded tie

No can find! I'm beginning to believe there aren't as many Trump branded ties out there as the orange one would like you to believe.

[tosh]

60. Never.

Ew, gross!

I wouldn't give a penny to that grifter and his clan.

[stonecutter357]

62. I try to buy made in the USA so no .

[onenote]

64. Once- at a conference in 2014

The room was extremely nice. But the elevators were a disaster -- it could take fifteen minutes or more before one would come.

[SammyWinstonJack]

72. Never bought any of his inferior crap or stayed nor visited any of his properties.

Never have been able to stomach this guy.

[spanone]

73. couldn't pay me to.

[malchickiwick]

74. There's one here in Vegas, the ugliest building in town (and that's saying it's SUPER ugly) ...

... but i would never set one foot inside.

[GulfCoast66]

76. Rather drink muddy water...

And sleep in a hollow log.

[rickford66]

77. My wife and I went into Trump Tower NY soon after it was built.

Awful, gaudy, bordello decor. Dictator Chic was a description I've read here on DU and it described it perfectly.

[magicarpet]

78. Fuck that shit. I would not spit in tr-dump's cash register.

.... Or go # 2.

[madinmaryland]

79. Nothing that I know of. It's all way over priced Kmart shit. Apologies to Kmart employees. nt

[Lefta Dissenter]

80. I tried on a cute dress...

...to wear for my daughter's wedding reception. I really liked the dress a lot and it fit well. I thought I had found my dress, but then as I was taking it off, I noticed the "Ivanka Trump" label. DAMMIT! I felt guilty for even LIKING it. I put it back on the rack and made a point of mentioning to the saleswoman that I wouldn't buy that brand and support that family. She wasn't necessarily in agreement with me. Oh well.

[OldHippieChick]

81. Lived in parts of the country where this

was never an issue, so it's not because I was such a discerning individual. Just come from the sticks and he and his brand don't hang out there.

[Orange Free State]

84. No. I do collect nice suits, and his brand are not very good.

They are really just Jones New York suits with a Trump label in them. Not the worst suit in the world, but certainly nothing I would bother with. I have among others Brioni, Gieves and Hawkes, Canali, Hickey-Freeman, and my favorite, a French made Ted Lapidus. But no Trump suit.

Might buy one at a thrift store as a joke. They do show up.

[MaryMagdaline]

85. Never

Even before I knew he was a sociopath I thought he had a mobbed up look to him. Thought he had bad taste.

[DemocratSinceBirth]

87. I go to Vegas four of five times a year because we have friends there.

I usually bid on priceline but I know where the Trump Hotel is and don't bid on that area. I don't even want to wind up there by accident.

[VOX]

89. No fucking way, EVER.

Trump’s been in the public eye now for what? 40-odd years?

In all that time, I’ve ALWAYS found him and his brand to be gold-Krylon-on-plywood cheap. And 45’s always been the matching gold-plated DICK.

I’ve never dropped so much as a penny on that asshole or one of his “excreta.”

[Leith]

90. I Did Once

It was the Trump Marina in Atlantic City (my memory may be hazy on that; it was the one that was not along the Boardwalk). It was New Year 1999-2000 and my inlaws invited us. The casino was the most crowded place I've ever been outside a Tokyo subway during rush hour.

The main thing I remember is that I was bored in the casino and I went back to the room shortly after midnight. I caught the second half of one of the best TV programs I've ever seen: the 100 most influential people of the last 1,000 years. The number one spot was taken by Gutenburg.

[ProudLib72]

92. Here's the list

http://wmich.edu/mus-gened/mus170/biography100

I particularly like the number two spot. Isaac Newton (gravity). Before Newton, people just floated around, often jealous they had not been born as trees with roots to anchor them. The Beatles rank higher than Jonas Salk!!!!

[Jim Lane]

91. I've stayed at each of his three Atlantic City casinos.

In my defense, the rooms were comped.

On the last weekend before the Trump Taj Mahal closed for good, they still had loads of logo merchandise (especially clothing) for sale. I wonder what became of all that stuff. It occurred to me that a purchase might be a good investment, if something eventually had resale value as a collector's item, but I just couldn't bring myself.

As for the hotel rooms, they were essentially indistinguishable from the rooms in non-Trump joints in Atlantic City.