In the 1980s, Trump banned Christmas decorations to harass his elderly tenants (from 2016)

[Dennis Donovan]

https://timeline.com/trump-war-on-christmas-f023912ed93d

He waged his own personal War on Christmas

Louis Anslow

Dec 12, 2016

“We’re going to start saying Merry Christmas again!” said President-elect Donald Trump this past Saturday, going on to decry the “War on Christmas.” However, in the 1980s Trump was waging a war on Christmas of his own.

In 1981, Trump bought the apartment building at 100 Central Park South. He then spent a decade trying to push rent-controlled residents out, so he could tear it down and build luxury condos. Part of this effort involved banning all Christmas decorations from the lobby.

But tenants fought back.

The lobby was free from decorations in 1981 and 1982, but in 1983 the tenants asked if they could have a Christmas tree in the lobby. According to New York magazine, their spokesperson pleaded that some residents “are very old and have nowhere to go for the holidays… this will be their only chance to share in the holiday sprit.” Citadel, the company managing the building for Trump, agreed, on one condition—the tree would be taken down should any tenant complain it “infringe[s] upon his or her religious beliefs.”

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Of course, Trump’s campaign against the tenants didn’t end with decorations. He filed, for instance, a baseless eviction proceeding against a tenant the day after Christmas that year, for allegedly failing to pay rent. That tenant, whose heating didn’t work for 3 consecutive winters, spent 2 years and $10,000 in legal fees as a result.

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This is the character of a man the Republicans are willing to risk their political futures on. Good luck with that, repugs...

[greatauntoftriplets]

1. But it was just fine for HIM to do that!

What a hypocritical asshole.

[Dennis Donovan]

2. What's even worse is that he used Christmas as a WEAPON...

That's as darkly cynical as it gets.

[greatauntoftriplets]

3. Very true.

Yet he prefers his supporters to be as gullible as hell.

[treestar]

4. That was the closest the neighbors came to getting into federal trouble

Trying to put up a Christmas tree at the common enterance before the Door Buzzard was wrung!

[Ohiogal]

5. This story

should be shouted from the rooftops this holiday season.

What an asshole.

[N_E_1 for Tennis]

6. Definition of Pure Evil....

Trump.

[3catwoman3]

7. We should start calling him...

...Ebenezer.

[dalton99a]

8. Cruel, heartless, soulless. Trump is the true essence of the GOP,

distilled down to its depraved and odious core.

[virgogal]

9. It was just in the lobby,my building doesn't do it either.

[RKP5637]

10. Trump, the greatest asshole and con artist/manipulator in all of mankind ... screwing

gullible people all over the world for him and his creepy disciples.

[Turin_C3PO]

11. Did you even read the article?

He weaponized Christmas. He‘s pure scum, plain and simple.

[virgogal]

36. Yes...I always read the articles.

[Laffy Kat]

12. Why doesn't the MSM feature THAT story for a change?

Let him explain that away to his mindless followers.

[LuvNewcastle]

34. Because they can't report a similar story about a Democrat

and make it seem like 'both sides' are doing it. If they can't find a Democrat who's that bad, the story on Trump doesn't get reported.

[Vinca]

13. His entire life has been a fraud, a grift and an ongoing crime.

Every time if hear the word "president" associated with him I want to puke.

[paleotn]

14. So Christian of him....

I can really see why evilgelicals flock to him. He's just as evil as they are.

[George II]

15. Unfortunately many elderly or poor people aren't aware of their legal recourse against landlords....

...but NYC courts come down strong against landlords and in favor of renters.

In 1980 I moved into a fully renovated 16-story historic building on the West Side. The renovators neglected to install my kitchen doors (it was a tiny studio, so the kitchen loomed out onto the main room) I left the manager several notes and got notes back "we'll do it in two weeks", "we'll do it next week", etc. This went on for almost a year. Finally, I told the manager in a note that I wasn't going to pay rent until the "improvements" were complete, which was the wording of my lease.

Three months later I got an eviction notice, with a notice to appear in court. I went to court without a lawyer, but all my notes back and forth over the previous year. The judge looked at them, turned to the manager and told him "get those doors installed within a week", then he turned to me and said, "if they're not installed by a week from today, you call my office!"

The doors were installed the next day.

[pandr32]

16. This story should go far and wide

I will help!

[marieo1]

17. Evict Trump

DJT makes me puke!!! What a despicable human being. I hope and pray he gets evicted from the Whitehouse!!

[Initech]

18. And we're supposed to believe that he ended the War On Christmas? Right.

He's Ebaneezer Scrooge - the pre-visited version. And even worse than that.

[McCamy Taylor]

19. The loophole for Evangelicals is that it is OK to be Scrooge MacDuck if it makes you richer.

Because wealth is a sign of divine grace.

[Ilsa]

20. I gave my son a Countdown to trump's eviction calendar for 2020.

It has notations on days for mean or stupid things he has done or said. I'm sure they missed a few, like this.

[I_UndergroundPanther]

21. Wow where

Did you get that awesome calendar?

[Ilsa]

22. A christmas toy/calendar shop. You can probably get one online, about $15. It

has stickers for making your own thought bubbles, steaming lumps of poo, and other insulting stickers.





Cj0KCQiArozwBRDOARIsAHo2s7vApSOzV4b7N1ewamUoF5KZFDvupBtlSOYEqlBPuzwt7xvOMChHMrEaAlG0EALw_wcB

Or full size by-the-month:

http://www.google.com/shopping/product/2703465914440168549?lsf=seller:115813107,store:1136756230980393008&prds=oid:13741703218695217962&q=2020+trump+countdown+calendar&hl=en&ei=LqgDXvXUKo3VtAashrHwCA&lsft=gclid:Cj0KCQiArozwBRDOARIsAHo2s7s5lCMtPuCy6W_HCv-4LhxK6SYj1XfaGftWf8sphKmS_FlMJr_LOsAaArHYEALw_wcB,gclsrc:aw.ds

[Hermit-The-Prog]

29. an amazon link ...

$11.48 as of now

https://www.amazon.com/Donald-Trump-Office-Countdown-Calendar/dp/1492678562?SubscriptionId=AKIAILSHYYTFIVPWUY6Q&tag=duckduckgo-d-20&linkCode=xm2&camp=2025&creative=165953&creativeASIN=1492678562

[Ilsa]

30. Even better if you have Prime! nt

[Blue Owl]

23. Donald Ebenezer Potter Trump

What a FPOS...

[usaf-vet]

24. To the last point I hope all of the republicans live a long life of regrets for supporting 45.

I hope they lose their seats and financial backers. They are not much better than 45. The truth is there to be seen by anyone willing to read and listen.

[PatrickforO]

25. In terms of karma, Trump has been heaping hot coals on his own head

for decades.

While the old poem speaks of the wheel of the gods turning slowly, it does turn.

When the proverbial chickens come home to roost, Trump may not like it so much. He's riding high now, but I'm not thinking it will last all that much longer.

And then....well, he'll come to understand what a 'kick 'em while they are down' kind of society he helped create. It won't be pretty - when the guy slithers out of office, the lawsuits and criminal charges will just keep coming. He'll end up living out the rest of his life in a cage.

[BlancheSplanchnik]

26. That's a great scenario

I want the immoral narcissist out and rolling in his own dung. The sooner the better, and the same for all his cronies and enablers.

[ChazInAz]

31. The soundtrack to his reign.

I imagine "O, Fortuna" from "Carmina Burana" thundering away as he rides the Wheel of Fortune upwards, without thinking that it also turns downward at the climax.
Will he be crying "Wafna" as he falls?
(Some of have soaked up way too much Classical music!)

[OMGWTF]

27. When people show you who they are believe them. The first time.

[Grokenstein]

28. Exactly the sort of viciousness and hypocrisy

that the GOP actively seeks in a "leader."

...But hey, they could still SAY "Merry Christmas," amirite?

[Blue_true]

32. One of my guiding principles when evaluating people is to try to get

ahold of records of actions they did when they likely had a choice of several options. People that I want nothing to do with always made the most unethical of the choices. There is no reason to trust such a person in the present. Trump abused people when he could have made other choices, that tells me everything that I need to know about his character.

[Haggis for Breakfast]

33. My Welsh grandfather used to say,

"You never get a second chance to make a first impression." If the first impression you have of someone is regrettable/forgettable/ insufferable, then that person is exactly who you think they are.

trumpie has always struck me as a man without a moral compass, devoid of ethics, who worships money, and will say anything to get what he wants.

[tclambert]

35. I'm sure he now wants to deregulate the housing market to make it easier to throw people out,

particularly elderly people paying modest rents, and to allow landlords to refuse to rent to undesirables, like, you know, people of color.