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highplainsdem

(48,993 posts)
Sat Dec 31, 2016, 08:33 AM Dec 2016

Have you seen the photo of the billboard for Trump Tower Mumbai looming over sleeping street kids?

I don't know how to post the photo itself, so I'm posting the link to the Snopes article confirming the photo is real, and including other photos of the same site from the same photographer:

http://www.snopes.com/trump-tower-billboard-in-mumbai/

I first ran across it on Twitter this morning



but from what the article says, the photo started circulating this month on Facebook (after originally being posted there in 2014), though the link to the Dec. 2016 Facebook page no longer brings up the photo there.

It shows Trump with a gloating smile, seated in one of his gilded chairs, apparently in his own Trump Tower home, and the billboard reads:

THERE IS
ONLY ONE WAY
TO LIVE.

THE TRUMP WAY.

And below the billboard, children sleep in the street.

Says everything about Trump and his "values."

Snopes says the photo was challenged as not being real, but they were able to verify that it is.

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Have you seen the photo of the billboard for Trump Tower Mumbai looming over sleeping street kids? (Original Post) highplainsdem Dec 2016 OP
FO dumpft and your quest for world domination. Cha Dec 2016 #1
Trump is smarter than all of us IronLionZion Dec 2016 #2
It's not about working harder They_Live Dec 2016 #17
Coming to a street near you. Vinca Dec 2016 #3
+1 FailureToCommunicate Dec 2016 #8
This is prolly the undoctored photo. trusty elf Dec 2016 #4
That's more like it. smirkymonkey Dec 2016 #5
I knew it Roy Rolling Dec 2016 #9
patriotic exclamation points... KittyWampus Dec 2016 #15
I was thinking more of a photo showing him crapping Yo_Mama_Been_Loggin Jan 2017 #20
Freaking Republicans. Shameless. Achilleaze Dec 2016 #6
Hideous to begin with, then taking on a horrific new meaning with him as president of the USA. NT enough Dec 2016 #7
Its like living in a surreal dystopian nightmare Ruby the Liberal Dec 2016 #10
Well said DesertRat Dec 2016 #11
But, but FlaGranny Dec 2016 #12
Do other people in the world associate the Trump name with tackiness and vulgarity? smirkymonkey Dec 2016 #13
Ding ding ding! We have a winner! colorado_ufo Dec 2016 #14
having been to india, i can presume mopinko Dec 2016 #16
You're on the Trump Way to Hell... Blue Owl Dec 2016 #18
As the Saying Goes... dlk Dec 2016 #19

IronLionZion

(45,447 posts)
2. Trump is smarter than all of us
Sat Dec 31, 2016, 09:15 AM
Dec 2016

if the rest of us worked harder, we could also live the Trump way, luxuriously tax free

 

smirkymonkey

(63,221 posts)
5. That's more like it.
Sat Dec 31, 2016, 09:34 AM
Dec 2016
Still, is there any more disgusting example of humanity in the world today than Donald Trump? I can't think of anybody.

Roy Rolling

(6,917 posts)
9. I knew it
Sat Dec 31, 2016, 10:33 AM
Dec 2016

WikiLeaks has been holding back Trump pictures and emails it uncovered. I knew this was real, somebody posted it as BOMBSHELL!!!!

You know the Internet is real when they use those patriotic exclamation points.

 

smirkymonkey

(63,221 posts)
13. Do other people in the world associate the Trump name with tackiness and vulgarity?
Sat Dec 31, 2016, 11:24 AM
Dec 2016

Because everyone I know certainly does. It's smacks of nouveau riche white trash.

mopinko

(70,112 posts)
16. having been to india, i can presume
Sat Dec 31, 2016, 01:22 PM
Dec 2016

that the scene behind the hotel, where the help lives, is much worse.
tin roof shacks, few w water, no toilets.
that was the scene behind almost every hotel we stayed in.

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