Trump Can't Apologize to Save His Business

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http://www.boomantribune.com/story/2016/8/13/12242/4108

Trump Can't Apologize to Save His Business

by BooMan
Sat Aug 13th, 2016 at 12:02:42 PM EST


So, there are legal proceedings going on because a chef who was under contract to work at Donald Trump’s big new Trump International Hotel in Washington DC pulled out of the contract last year after he heard Trump’s anti-Mexican tirade during the speech he made announcing his candidacy.

They’re actually arguing over whether or not the chef, Geoffrey Zakarian, was justified in backing out based on the fact that Trump had called Mexicans a bunch of drug dealers and rapists, and there’s even some dispute about whether Trump eventually apologized or retracted his remarks or merely “clarified” or “articulated” them.

Of course, Trump never apologized. Instead he made some effort to distinguish between “illegals” who rape and sell drugs, and “legals” who do not necessarily do those things.

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It’s true that Mexican cartels are responsible for most of the heroin on our streets, as well as a lot of cocaine and methamphetamine. Obviously, part of their operations involves smugglers entering the country illegally. If Trump had limited his remarks to addressing that problem, no one would have accused him of being a racist. He did a lot more than that, though. He suggested that the Mexican government is “dumping” undesirable people into our country as official policy. He falsely asserted that Mexican illegal border crossers are bringing “tremendous infectious disease” with them and making Americans sick. And he failed to distinguish in any way whatsoever between the relative handful of cartel worker bees entering the country to engage in drug trafficking and the more than ten million people living in this country peacefully despite entering the country illegally. He called for deporting them all.

There’s no particular reason to rehash this all now except that it highlights something important about Trump and his family. The effort to clarify or soften the remarks was not made for political reasons. It was made strictly for business reasons. But even when told by his children that they were in jeopardy of losing their prized chef, Trump still couldn’t bring himself to do enough to rectify the situation.

Instead, he sued the chef. And then he sued José Andrés, a Latino chef who was supposed to open a restaurant at his DC hotel but reconsidered when he heard what Trump had to say about Mexicans.

So, we will eventually find out whether, once you’ve signed a contract, you have to work for someone who subsequently reveals themselves to be a virulent racist or face financial penalties for refusing to do so.

[uponit7771]

1. This sounds like something that could go to USSC, do you have to work for someone who intimates ...

... animus towards you.

My understand in working in trading intimating animosity towards a person makes the trades that go south the brokers fault..

This will be interesting