In the latest sign of Donald Trump‘s plunging stock as a business brand, New York City Mayor Bill de Blasio said the city is moving ahead with plans to cancel its business contracts with the Trump Organization including the company’s famous Wollman Skating Rink in Central Park.
“New York City doesn’t do business with insurrectionists,” de Blasio tweeted. “We’re taking steps to TERMINATE agreements with the Trump Organization to operate the Central Park Carousel, Wollman and Lasker skating rinks, and the Ferry Point Golf Course” in the Bronx.
While city officials have explored ways to exit the agreements since 2015, de Blasio said in an interview with MSNBC that last Wednesday’s deadly and destructive invasion of the U.S. Capitol left no other option. “The city of New York will no longer have anything to do with the Trump Organization,” he said. He added that he sees the city as standing on “strong legal ground,” should Trump decide to file suit.
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The breach of the Capitol followed months of lies about election fraud spread by Trump and his supporters. As Trump faces impeachment proceedings and a potential trial ahead of or after President-Elect Joe Biden’s inauguration next week, a number of businesses have cut ties with Trump and stopped making contributions to elected officials who backed his false election claims. The PGA said it will no longer hold an upcoming major golf tournament at a Trump-owned club in New Jersey, and organizers of the Open Championship in Britain have taken similar action against a Trump golf course in the UK.
New York and Trump have a long and tangled history, of course, with the Queens-born son of a real estate developer having put his family name on a range of buildings decades before his presidential run. The Central Park attractions are familiar not only to residents but visitors to the city as well, including television industry pros who have trekked to Wollman Rink each spring for Fox’s annual upfronts party. The Trump Organization oversaw the renovation of the rink in the 1980s as Central Park was starting to emerge from a financially strapped, crime-ridden period in the 1970s. After opening in 1950, the rink was used as a concert venue and has been featured as a backdrop in films like Love Story, Carnal Knowledge and Mr. Popper’s Penguins.
The mayor has frequently clashed with Trump over the past four years. In the early days of the president’s term, he assailed the costly security measures required to protect the area around Trump Tower. Last summer, after Trump had shifted his main residence to Florida, de Blasio ordered the street on Fifth Avenue in front of the building to be painted with large, yellow letters spelling out “Black Lives Matter.”
Calling the contract move “political discrimination,” a Trump Organization rep said the company will “fight vigorously” and said it will still be owed $30 million from the deals, according to multiple press reports.
And who will get those contracts ? Political allies.
NYC doesn’t do business with insurrectionists..but they do do businesss and endorse MArxists that advocate the destruction of the nuclear family and western civilization (BLM/Antifa) THEIR WORDS
NYC you voted for this fool..by the way explain how the Mayor can dictate rescind their contracts, unilaterally..Who does he think he is ..a Marxist or Fascist?
Your statement is grammatically confusing. You refer to THIER WORDS, To whom are you referring. It reads to me that you are staying NYC has used words to endorse, do buisness with and promote anti-democratic ideals.
Show me the words
Consequences.
And the consequences for Democratic embrace of mob rule and soft authoritarianism and going to be so very sweet. Prepare yourself for the blowback.
Lol ok
What? The consequences of going against democrat results in the use of dictatorial powers? You seem to forget the last 4 years of democrats telling their mobs to FIGHT FIGHT FIGHT..and excuse the use of violence (BLM/Antifa) as they are fighting for the right cause . In the case of BLM/Antifa THEIR cause is to promote marxism..you do know that ..right ?
You and the democrats are scary and have no place in a position of power. The democrats are showing that they WILL use their power to punish those that they oppose..
Sounds a little nazi like..it should
It will take 50 years and beyond for History”s perspective on the full scope of events we are experiencing. I have more history behind me than in front of me. We have seen this before and it did not end well.
This is not a US post. The weird punctuation (a period BEFORE a sentence) is a dead giveaway. Russian trolls are all over this site trying to stir the pot.
Here’s something both the left and the right can all agree on: de Blasio is garbage politician.
The democrats are proving themselves to be dictators..These people can not be trusted with power
Whether you like Trump or not, using government powers to settle political scores should concern everyone
I would explain dictatorship to you, but I just became the last person on earth with an IQ above 70 to give up on you.
de Blasio declaring that ALL NYC contracts with Trump associated companies to be null…Sounds a little bit dictatorial to me..You are ok with the Mayor taking those actions? Or the Bovernor deciding to CLOSE BUSINESS down..why? Because he has the powwer to do so..If it is to stop the scourge of covid..Not doing a very good job is he
You are OK with following orders, and silence dissent, as long as they come from YOUR DICTATOR..Sounds a like nazi like
Political scores… isn’t that something trump does? He does this all the time. You disagree with him and you’re out. Listen, it’s funny how everything the left is accused of doing are the very same things trump has done already. Everyone sees it! So you can stop trying to rewrite the narrative. We all see the truth! Over the past 4+ years, trump has showed the world exactly who he is.
So you were totally fine with it when Trump did it?
Because it sounds like you are.
Partisans, like yourself, are the problem
NO ONE DEFENDED TRUMP You are using Trump as an excuse for democrat bad behaviour. ..dismissing political appointees is one thing.. Using the power of government is completely different. Is it ok with you the FBI and IRS being used for politcal purposes, as long as it benefits the democrats?
Your hate for Trump is blinding rational thought..
Exactly. This is incredibly dangerous.