Trump Shuts Mar-a-Lago Down for Weekend Before Arraignment, Flag at HALF MAST

[LetMyPeopleVote]

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[wnylib]

1. Flag at half mast? LOL.

Such melodramatic performance politics.

[gratuitous]

3. There's a Stormy Daniels joke in there somewhere

But far be it from me to . . . Ah, who am I kidding? But you're all there now anyway.

[SouthernDem4ever]

47. ROFL

[moniss]

48. Stormy has

almost enough material and good one liners for a 20 minute stand up comedy routine. She should start to heavily troll Melania. Maybe she could wear some of the same outfits or do a Christmas card like Melania did using the Palace of Blood look.

[fierywoman]

4. I looked it up -- US flags were at half mast through Fri because of Nashville murders.

[llmart]

6. Yes.

I just came from my public library and their flag was at half mast also.

[wnylib]

9. For that, yes. All flags should be at half mast for the

slaughtered children of America. But not for sympathy for TFG.

[Lars39]

15. There's a guy a couple doors down from me

that is flying their flags at half mast.

[CTyankee]

67. Not to be picky here but "half mast" is a nautical term. "Half staff" is appropriate for non

nautical usage.

[ProfessorGAC]

2. What A Snowflake

All this could have been avoided by, you know, not breaking the law.
That option appears not to be within Donnie-Boy's capabilities.

[PatSeg]

39. Personally, I think he likes doing things

the illegal way. He feels like he is getting away with something or outsmarting the smart people. Even if it would be easier and more beneficial to do things legitimately, I think he looks for the crooked path. It is like a challenge for him.

[ProfessorGAC]

43. Thing Is...

...he could have done things legit, invested his inheritance, lived like an emperor and been an actual billionaire.
But, all his chicanery didn't even benefit him. He could have been much wealthier doing nothing.
He did it all the dirty stuff to no end.

[PatSeg]

62. I know, it is bizarre

But apparently he thrives on chaos and drama, plus he has "daddy" issues and has something to prove. It would seem that all he proved was he is as incompetent and stupid as parents believed he was. All his life he has set himself to fail over and over again.

[lindysalsagal]

53. I agree: Like a gambling addiction, it's his ego thinking

He's outsmarted people and governments. Dumbass.

[PatSeg]

63. Yes, it is like an addiction

He probably gets a huge dopamine high whenever he skirts the law or cheats people. As with any addiction, the high only lasts for a short time, so he has to keep feeding his addiction with bigger and better scams. Disturbingly, it took him right to the White House and it is terrifying to think what he would have done if he had another four years in power.

[Cha]

5. lol.. poor Pathetic Domestic Terrorist...

[Blue Owl]

7. Time to point and laugh at that motherfucker

[Initech]

8. LMFAO! He really thinks he's going to be a martyr!

Guess what? He isn’t, and the January 6th prisoners aren’t political prisoners, either.

[live love laugh]

10. His stuntsmanship is reaching new heights.

[mcar]

11. ...

[Retrograde]

12. Doesn't he do this every year around this time?

He abandons Florida for one of his (probably highly mortgaged) properties in New Jersey or New York around this time, to avoid the Florida summers.

[2naSalit]

24. NJ. Where Ivana's buried.

[we can do it]

31. Spyvana....what else is in that grave.

[2naSalit]

35. Mr. Pecker's secret safe?

The rest of the stolen secret docs?

Something else incriminating? Something abut Epstein?

So many possibilities.

[we can do it]

36. Sad thing that any of those and others are possible.

[ProfessorGAC]

45. There's No Probably

The TO debt:equity can be argued to be over 7. The commercial real estate industry average is 0.8.
Everything is leveraged to the hilt.

[Baitball Blogger]

13. Preparing for a siege.

[ymetca]

14. Mar-A-L-Alamo!

He's already got the coonskin hat for the part.

[TheBlackAdder]

30. I would have thunk he'd fly the flag upside down.

[sanatanadharma]

16. So which of Shakespeare's tragedies best reflects Trumps self-undoing?

So which of Shakespeare's tragedies best reflects Trumps self-undoing?

How will future's troubadours, this story tell?

[TheBlackAdder]

33. I'd say more like a Greek tragedy, Oedipus Rex, with Trump fucking everyone and then himself.

[ChazInAz]

41. MacBeth

I think we should revise and update that Sixties musical satire of LBJ: MacBird.

[ZonkerHarris]

17. lowering the flag to half-mast is very offensive.

he's a fucking scumbag

[Rhiannon12866]

32. I agree.

Flags in this country are flying at half-staff in honor of victims - including children - of a mass shooting. TFG doing the same is only a temper tantrum because he's facing legal issues after breaking the laws of this country.

[Chainfire]

18. Half mast, half assed, they go together.

[hadEnuf]

19. "Flag at half staff"

What a pathetic asshole.

Hey, pathetic asshole. New York is just the tip of the iceberg.

[OnlinePoker]

20. Probably not the only thing of Trumps at half-mast. n/t

[FakeNoose]

21. Well there's the proof that it never really was a private social club

Despite the lies of Donald Chump, Mar-A-Lago is not a private social club, nor is it a business. It's a residence, subject to the whims of the crazy owner, and it needs to be taxed accordingly.

[ancianita]

22. I hope he's forced to sell off properties to afford his lifelong legal bills.

[ZonkerHarris]

42. he's got enough suckers to grift for the rest of his life. Raised $4 million after the indictment

[ancianita]

51. I hear you. For a while longer. But the longer he's in court and his witch hunt victimization

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tale is told, the more likely it will go stale, but they won't admit that they backed a con man loser. Perhaps they'll be so bitter they'll either lash out or latch onto the next enemy finder their leadership brings forward.

If our side were to add up all the money he's made off them, and show it to them, they'd be secretly pissed. But what price, patriotism, right?

[ZonkerHarris]

57. the best con men leave their victims unaware they've been fleeced. It's 8 years he's draining their

wallets.
Why should they stop now?
Seriously
Every dollar they give him is about validating their own racist mindset so it will not end until he dies.
Then Don Jr will try to keep the grift going but he doesn't have "IT" like his dad does.

[ancianita]

59. True. And in that case it's probably no longer a con. I'm being optimistic, aren't I.

[spanone]

23. He's so full of shit.

[ancianita]

25. ...

[FemDemERA]

50. LOL!!!

Good one!!

[sdfernando]

26. It's half staff people

Not half mast. Mast is for ships. Staff is for land and is the term used in Presidential proclamations.

[bucolic_frolic]

27. I think they mean half-assed

[paleotn]

28. Burn it to the ground.

[markodochartaigh]

46. "Burn it to the ground".

Florida has strict rules on burning trash.

[paleotn]

61. Ha!

[Torchlight]

29. So begins the opening strains to the 21st century variation on the Fhrerbunker

Except now it's new and improved, furnished with gilded tin, and decorated with the noblesse-oblige of chicken buckets and burger wrappings.

No better place I can think of to throw a televised tantrum triggered by the toddler's temper.

[Pinback]

34. A guy can't even cheat on his wife with a porn star

and bribe her to keep silent anymore. I don’t recognize my country!

[cutroot]

49. He got away with all of that. He is in trouble for trying to claim it as a business expense.

[Pinback]

54. Of course.

Just an attempt at humor.

[TimeToGo]

37. Florida flags at half mast due to shooting in TN

Please don’t think I’m defending the idiot.

[ancianita]

52. Half STAFF. Not half mast.

[TimeToGo]

65. 6 years in the Navy

[sl8]

60. But that ended Friday night, per federal and Florida state directives.

The half-staff period for the Nashville murders ended Friday night, per both U.S. and Florida directives.

https://www.whitehouse.gov/briefing-room/presidential-actions/2023/03/27/a-proclamation-on-honoring-the-victims-of-the-tragedy-in-nashville-tennessee/

https://www.pnj.com/story/news/2023/03/28/why-are-flags-at-half-mast-today-in-florida/70056797007/

[TimeToGo]

66. Still seeing in today.

I mean, again, maybe he was doing for all the wrong reasons. What do I know.

[sl8]

68. Did all the others also wait several days to lower their flags?

The official period ran from Monday to Friday. According to the article in the OP, Trumps was only lowered after his indictment was announced.

The article in the OP got their information from Forbes. I just read the Forbes article, they got their information from the local Channel 10 News:
https://www.local10.com/news/local/2023/03/31/supporters-gather-outside-mar-a-lago-following-indictment-of-donald-trump/

Maybe Channel 10 was wrong. Maybe Mar-a-Lago didn't get the word about Nashville until several days after it was announced. Or, maybe it was lowered because of the indictment announcement.

Also, I don't think you support Trump, not at all. Playing devil's advocate is a good thing. I do it often. I think it keeps us all honest.

[TimeToGo]

71. Yea I saw them on Sunday

Fire houses and the like still had them yesterday -- people are sometimes slow to to back to normal. Didn't notice today.

Again --he is vile enough to use it for himself. So . . .

[sl8]

72. I think you missed my point.

Everyone was supposed to lower their flags last Monday, for Nashville. According to the local news, his wasn't lowered until Thursday, just after he was indicted and more than 3 days after everyone else.

I wasn't referring to when the flags went back up.

[TimeToGo]

73. I understood

My point was that they stayed down all over until at least yesterday.

[sl8]

74. OK. nt

[sl8]

75. Now I'm thinking that Channel 10 might be confused about when the flag was lowered.

The current version of the article doesn't mention when the flag was lowered.

Checking the Internet Archive, they have 10 captures of the article since March 30, showing major changes to the article, including removing the original reporters name from the byline and replacing it with 3 others!

I don't trust Channel 10 reporting about this nearly as much as I did this morning. Maybe the flag was lowered before Thursday.

https://web.archive.org/web/20230331045218/https://www.local10.com/news/local/2023/03/31/supporters-gather-outside-mar-a-lago-following-indictment-of-donald-trump/

[TimeToGo]

76. News 😎

Who knows what is real or not. Some of them try some of them don’t. And with Trump, no matter how bizarre the claim, it just might be so.

[Martin Eden]

38. Maybe the grom reaper will notice the flag at half mast

And make it a reality.

[Beastly Boy]

40. It's family time at Mar a Lago. No guests allowed. April Fools!

[NullTuples]

44. Not for student & teachers getting shot & killed, but for himself. He's truly a piece of work...

[RANDYWILDMAN]

55. he does stuff it's awesome/he is the victim for every crime he commits

must be nice to live in such a deluded paradise.

[LiberalFighter]

56. Someone should tell him he is flying the flag backwards.

[Bucky]

58. This is unimportant, but the flag is at "half-staff". Half-mast would be for a flag on a ship

[LetMyPeopleVote]

64. TFG is losing it

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[B.See]

69. Jesus wept.

[LetMyPeopleVote]

70. TFG admitted to Hannity to violating the law

TFG just confessed to a crime in this interview with Hannity. TFG hid or obstructed the production of government documents which is a crime. TFG had no rights to these documents. TFG asserted that he had rights to these documents in the Special Master case which the 11th Circuit rejected

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