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Trump buys clintonkaine.com, turns it into anti-Clinton website
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First posted: Tuesday, October 04, 2016 12:25 PM EDT | Updated: Tuesday, October 04, 2016 12:31 PM EDT
If you thought clicking on clintonkaine.com would take you to the official campaign site for U.S. presidential candidate Hillary Clinton and running-mate Tim Kaine you'd be wrong.
Clinton's opponent in the upcoming U.S. presidential election, Donald Trump, has snatched up the clintonkaine.com domain and turned it into an anti-Clinton news portal.
The site is littered with anti-Clinton stories with headlines like "Clinton: Sanders supporters live in parents' basements" and "Hillary's Foundation hid a foreign donation of $2 million."
The domain was originally bought by a man named Jeremy Peter Green in 2011 for US$7.30, but he recently sold it to the Trump campaign for $15,000, USA Today reports.
At the bottom of the website a note states: "Paid for by Donald J. Trump for President, Inc."
According to USA Today, despite selling the website to Trump, Green is actually a Clinton supporter who plans to volunteer for her on election day.
"By the time Trump got his hands on the domain, it was getting only 50 visitors a day. Definitely not a $15,000 domain! I'm very happy to have Trump's money," Green said in an email to USA Today. "I bought it because I knew that if Clinton-Kaine ended up being the 2016 ticket, I would be able to use the web traffic, have some fun with (the) domain, and eventually sell it."
Green says he offered the domain to the Clinton campaign first but they said they couldn't afford it. Just looking to make a quick buck, he offered it to the next bidder, which happened to be the Trump campaign.
"It allows us a nice playing field to do some opposition research and let it show," Trump's digital director Brad Parscale told Wired. "We want people to see all the truth, and not the sometimes one-sided truth that we get from the media."
A screengrab of clintonkaine.com.
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First posted: Tuesday, October 04, 2016 12:25 PM EDT | Updated: Tuesday, October 04, 2016 12:31 PM EDT
If you thought clicking on clintonkaine.com would take you to the official campaign site for U.S. presidential candidate Hillary Clinton and running-mate Tim Kaine you'd be wrong.
Clinton's opponent in the upcoming U.S. presidential election, Donald Trump, has snatched up the clintonkaine.com domain and turned it into an anti-Clinton news portal.
The site is littered with anti-Clinton stories with headlines like "Clinton: Sanders supporters live in parents' basements" and "Hillary's Foundation hid a foreign donation of $2 million."
The domain was originally bought by a man named Jeremy Peter Green in 2011 for US$7.30, but he recently sold it to the Trump campaign for $15,000, USA Today reports.
At the bottom of the website a note states: "Paid for by Donald J. Trump for President, Inc."
According to USA Today, despite selling the website to Trump, Green is actually a Clinton supporter who plans to volunteer for her on election day.
"By the time Trump got his hands on the domain, it was getting only 50 visitors a day. Definitely not a $15,000 domain! I'm very happy to have Trump's money," Green said in an email to USA Today. "I bought it because I knew that if Clinton-Kaine ended up being the 2016 ticket, I would be able to use the web traffic, have some fun with (the) domain, and eventually sell it."
Green says he offered the domain to the Clinton campaign first but they said they couldn't afford it. Just looking to make a quick buck, he offered it to the next bidder, which happened to be the Trump campaign.
"It allows us a nice playing field to do some opposition research and let it show," Trump's digital director Brad Parscale told Wired. "We want people to see all the truth, and not the sometimes one-sided truth that we get from the media."
A screengrab of clintonkaine.com.
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A SunShine Girl's encounter with Donald Trump
By Jenny Yuen, Toronto Sun
First posted: Saturday, October 08, 2016 05:11 PM EDT | Updated: Saturday, October 08, 2016 06:24 PM EDT
It appears Donald Trump developed an aversion to cross-border relationships decades ago.
It’s a pain a former Sunshine Girl Tracy Champagne knows all too well. Except, at the time, she likely never expected to be jilted by a man who — nearly 20 years later — would be Republican candidate for U.S. president.
But since then, she’s fallen off the public radar.
As Trump ramps up his Republican campaign against opponent Hilary Clinton for the U.S. presidential election on Nov. 8, the Toronto Sun is encouraging Champagne to come forward.
Their chance meeting began when Trump was in Toronto in July 1997 — lobbying to run a casino in Ontario — when a bikini-clad Champagne appeared on the front of the Sun, cooling off in a downtown fountain.
Her picture captured the attention of the wealthy New York developer.
“What’s her name?” he confided to a Sun photographer. “I’d like to meet her,”
And he got his wish.
The Sun set up the casual encounter between the pair outside the Crowne Plaza Hotel.
“So, this is the girl on the front of the paper,” Trump said after seeing the then-25-year-old struggling public relations grad in the flesh. “You’re really something.”
They each autographed and exchanged copies of the Sun newspaper with Champagne adding a note on the second page to “Call me” and included her phone number.
And less than a week later, the phone rang — long distance from Manhattan.
For 20 minutes, Champagne and Trump chatted about family, the Molson Indy and their mutual interest in Niagara Falls. But as quickly as the sparks flew, the fire fizzled out.
“He was going to get back to me, but never did,” Champagne said at the time. “I think he’s the kind of man I could have learned a lot from.”
Trump’s assistant said he chose not to pursue the relationship as he was “very busy.”
Numerous attempts to track down Champagne turned up fruitless. Is there even a possibility Champagne is still carrying a torch for Donald?
“He seems to like young blondes,” she once said, after Trump ghosted her.
Maybe she still has a thing for older blondes as well?
The women of Donald Trump:
•Ivana Trump: Married April 1977 and had three children together: Donald Jr., Ivanka and Eric. They divorced in 1991 as he was having an affair with his next wife, Marla Maples.
•Marla Maples: Has one daughter, Tiffany, with Trump. They married two months after her birth in December 1993, but the couple formCally separated in May 1997, with their divorce finalized in June 1999.
•Melania Trump: A Slovenian-born model who married Trump in January 2005. They have a son together, Barron William Trump.
•Carla Bruni: The couple shared a brief, but rocky relationship in 1991 after the supermodel and French singer/songwriter was still torn over her ex, Mick Jagger. Trump later said: “[Carla] was trying to get me to leave Marla, something I had in mind anyway, and she was using every psychological trick in the book. In the end, Carla became a woman who is very difficult to even like.”
•Princess Diana: Trump was said to have “bombarded” Princess Di with expensive flowers after her 1996 divorce from Prince Charles, and has said that he would have liked to court that “genuine princess.”
•Kara Young: In 2001, Trump was involved in a love triangle with the supermodel, who had also seeing gossip columnist A.J. Benza. Trump and Benza insulted one another on the Howard Stern Show.
•Jackie Siegel: In 2013, the star of the documentary Queen of Versailles, said she went on “a couple” of dates with Trump after he invited her to his parties. “He’s a really great person,” she said. “So much charisma. I’m so glad that we’re still friends.”
•Sandra Taylor: In August 2015, former Penthouse Pet Sandra Taylor told the Daily Mail Trump had a secretary track her down for a date after spotting her on the cover of New York Magazine. She told the tabloid Trump was “amazing” in bed.
Rejection can hurt more from a high-powered mate
Rejection from anyone hurts, but being cast aside by a high-power mate such as Donald Trump can be especially challenging from an evolutionary perspective, according to sexologist and relationship expert Jess O’Reilly.
It may not even be someone you will remember in 20 years, but it’s the feeling of rejection that many people have difficulty coping with, she said, adding it takes a toll on one’s sense of self and self-esteem.
“Being exiled from a group in hunter-gatherer societies put you at physical peril (you couldn’t survive on your own), so it can be even more distressful,” she said. “On the other hand, knowing that Donald Trump relishes in belittling and rejecting people (“you’re fired’!) should serve as a reminder that she really shouldn’t take it personally.”
O’Reilly said women who are rejected by Trump — or other Trump-like partners — should spend some time to look at the situation rationally.
Many people in positions of power may enjoy exploiting their stature in relationships, said O’Reilly, who added it takes one who is “self-aware” to not manipulate that.
She added when someone doesn’t call, it can be more painful, as you’re left to imagine all the (usually unrealistic) reasons for the rejection.
jyuen@postmedia.com
SunShine Girl Tracy Champagne is pictured with Donald Trump in Toronto during the summer of 1997. (Toronto Sun files)
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A dog and phony show
By Mike Strobel, Toronto Sun
First posted: Saturday, October 08, 2016 03:46 PM EDT | Updated: Saturday, October 08, 2016 04:37 PM EDT
Once a hound, always a hound?
Donald, you dog.
A young blonde SUNshine Girl in a fountain in 1998. A young blonde soap opera star in 2005. Can you spot a trend?
“He seems to like young blondes,” SUNshine Girl Tracy Champagne shrewdly observed in the halcyon summer of ’98.
Donald Trump, in town on business, had drooled over our front-page photo of bubbly Ms. Champagne, beating the heat by frolicking in a fountain. Our photographer introduced them. They swapped autographs. They talked of family, car racing, Niagara Falls. “You’re really something,” he said. “Call me,” she wrote.
But — sigh! — he never did. All talk, no action.
Far as we know, the Donald never hooked up with Days of Our Lives star Arianne Zucker, either, though a hot mic recorded him slobbering at the prospect as he rode in a bus to meet her with TV host Billy Bush.
Trump and Bush got “very lewd,” as the very liberal Washington Post described it. Clearly, no one at the Post has ever been in a hockey locker room or a dive bar after midnight.
In those loud, smelly places, loud and smelly words are spoken, mostly by men who are all talk, no action.
If you are male, even a liberal male, who claims never to have leered, lusted or debated the female anatomy in unscientific terms, well, have a good day, Your Holiness.
We men have a sneaking suspicion that you women, too, can get “very lewd” in similar settings, though we’re not sure, since we’re never invited.
Certainly, no hound dog ever occupied the White House, right?
Other than Bill Clinton and John Kennedy, I mean. And those two Casanovas weren’t just talk.
Both foisted themselves on White House interns. Kennedy, patron saint of liberal America, once wrote to a college buddy:
“I can now get my tail as often and as free as I want, which is a step in the right direction.”
That’s pretty much what Trump told Billy Bush on the bus in 2005, though with modern variations of “tail.”
But, lo, the moral outrage on Saturday after the tape was unveiled by the Washington Post. Organizers of Sunday’s Trump-Hillary Clinton debate must be slavering over the ratings windfall.
This was raw T-bone steak for the stop-Trumpers and the holier-than-thou crowd. Cue the dog and phony show.
CNN anchors — none of whom has ever in their lives said anything remotely ribald — rolled their eyes and rolled out tapes of Trump being raunchy on Howard Stern’s radio show, as if to say, “what a pig!”
Howard Stern?! Clearly no one at CNN has ever listened to Howard. Thus they missed Bestiality Dial-a-date.
Meanwhile, Billy Bush, a total twit on the tape, apologized. Then Trump apologized. He had to. Locker-room banter or not, that tape does not play well in 2016.
It is primo ammo for the political elites of both American parties who view Trump as an alien.
We live in preachy times. Soon it will be taboo to look sideways at a member of the opposite sex. (While true sexism, career inequality, remains far from fixed).
Bad-boy boasting can return to bite you in the tail even a decade later.
Nor do we run photos of blondes in fountains any more, no matter how steamy the weather.
Donald Trump has changed, too. Look at his wife, Melania.
She’s a brunette.
Strobel’s column usually runs Monday to Thursday. mstrobel@postmedia.com
http://washingtonpost.com/video/c/embed/3bf16d1e-8caf-11e6-8cdc-4fbb1973b506
A dog and phony show | STROBEL | World | News | Toronto Sun
By Jenny Yuen, Toronto Sun
First posted: Saturday, October 08, 2016 05:11 PM EDT | Updated: Saturday, October 08, 2016 06:24 PM EDT
It appears Donald Trump developed an aversion to cross-border relationships decades ago.
It’s a pain a former Sunshine Girl Tracy Champagne knows all too well. Except, at the time, she likely never expected to be jilted by a man who — nearly 20 years later — would be Republican candidate for U.S. president.
But since then, she’s fallen off the public radar.
As Trump ramps up his Republican campaign against opponent Hilary Clinton for the U.S. presidential election on Nov. 8, the Toronto Sun is encouraging Champagne to come forward.
Their chance meeting began when Trump was in Toronto in July 1997 — lobbying to run a casino in Ontario — when a bikini-clad Champagne appeared on the front of the Sun, cooling off in a downtown fountain.
Her picture captured the attention of the wealthy New York developer.
“What’s her name?” he confided to a Sun photographer. “I’d like to meet her,”
And he got his wish.
The Sun set up the casual encounter between the pair outside the Crowne Plaza Hotel.
“So, this is the girl on the front of the paper,” Trump said after seeing the then-25-year-old struggling public relations grad in the flesh. “You’re really something.”
They each autographed and exchanged copies of the Sun newspaper with Champagne adding a note on the second page to “Call me” and included her phone number.
And less than a week later, the phone rang — long distance from Manhattan.
For 20 minutes, Champagne and Trump chatted about family, the Molson Indy and their mutual interest in Niagara Falls. But as quickly as the sparks flew, the fire fizzled out.
“He was going to get back to me, but never did,” Champagne said at the time. “I think he’s the kind of man I could have learned a lot from.”
Trump’s assistant said he chose not to pursue the relationship as he was “very busy.”
Numerous attempts to track down Champagne turned up fruitless. Is there even a possibility Champagne is still carrying a torch for Donald?
“He seems to like young blondes,” she once said, after Trump ghosted her.
Maybe she still has a thing for older blondes as well?
The women of Donald Trump:
•Ivana Trump: Married April 1977 and had three children together: Donald Jr., Ivanka and Eric. They divorced in 1991 as he was having an affair with his next wife, Marla Maples.
•Marla Maples: Has one daughter, Tiffany, with Trump. They married two months after her birth in December 1993, but the couple formCally separated in May 1997, with their divorce finalized in June 1999.
•Melania Trump: A Slovenian-born model who married Trump in January 2005. They have a son together, Barron William Trump.
•Carla Bruni: The couple shared a brief, but rocky relationship in 1991 after the supermodel and French singer/songwriter was still torn over her ex, Mick Jagger. Trump later said: “[Carla] was trying to get me to leave Marla, something I had in mind anyway, and she was using every psychological trick in the book. In the end, Carla became a woman who is very difficult to even like.”
•Princess Diana: Trump was said to have “bombarded” Princess Di with expensive flowers after her 1996 divorce from Prince Charles, and has said that he would have liked to court that “genuine princess.”
•Kara Young: In 2001, Trump was involved in a love triangle with the supermodel, who had also seeing gossip columnist A.J. Benza. Trump and Benza insulted one another on the Howard Stern Show.
•Jackie Siegel: In 2013, the star of the documentary Queen of Versailles, said she went on “a couple” of dates with Trump after he invited her to his parties. “He’s a really great person,” she said. “So much charisma. I’m so glad that we’re still friends.”
•Sandra Taylor: In August 2015, former Penthouse Pet Sandra Taylor told the Daily Mail Trump had a secretary track her down for a date after spotting her on the cover of New York Magazine. She told the tabloid Trump was “amazing” in bed.
Rejection can hurt more from a high-powered mate
Rejection from anyone hurts, but being cast aside by a high-power mate such as Donald Trump can be especially challenging from an evolutionary perspective, according to sexologist and relationship expert Jess O’Reilly.
It may not even be someone you will remember in 20 years, but it’s the feeling of rejection that many people have difficulty coping with, she said, adding it takes a toll on one’s sense of self and self-esteem.
“Being exiled from a group in hunter-gatherer societies put you at physical peril (you couldn’t survive on your own), so it can be even more distressful,” she said. “On the other hand, knowing that Donald Trump relishes in belittling and rejecting people (“you’re fired’!) should serve as a reminder that she really shouldn’t take it personally.”
O’Reilly said women who are rejected by Trump — or other Trump-like partners — should spend some time to look at the situation rationally.
Many people in positions of power may enjoy exploiting their stature in relationships, said O’Reilly, who added it takes one who is “self-aware” to not manipulate that.
She added when someone doesn’t call, it can be more painful, as you’re left to imagine all the (usually unrealistic) reasons for the rejection.
jyuen@postmedia.com
SunShine Girl Tracy Champagne is pictured with Donald Trump in Toronto during the summer of 1997. (Toronto Sun files)
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A dog and phony show
By Mike Strobel, Toronto Sun
First posted: Saturday, October 08, 2016 03:46 PM EDT | Updated: Saturday, October 08, 2016 04:37 PM EDT
Once a hound, always a hound?
Donald, you dog.
A young blonde SUNshine Girl in a fountain in 1998. A young blonde soap opera star in 2005. Can you spot a trend?
“He seems to like young blondes,” SUNshine Girl Tracy Champagne shrewdly observed in the halcyon summer of ’98.
Donald Trump, in town on business, had drooled over our front-page photo of bubbly Ms. Champagne, beating the heat by frolicking in a fountain. Our photographer introduced them. They swapped autographs. They talked of family, car racing, Niagara Falls. “You’re really something,” he said. “Call me,” she wrote.
But — sigh! — he never did. All talk, no action.
Far as we know, the Donald never hooked up with Days of Our Lives star Arianne Zucker, either, though a hot mic recorded him slobbering at the prospect as he rode in a bus to meet her with TV host Billy Bush.
Trump and Bush got “very lewd,” as the very liberal Washington Post described it. Clearly, no one at the Post has ever been in a hockey locker room or a dive bar after midnight.
In those loud, smelly places, loud and smelly words are spoken, mostly by men who are all talk, no action.
If you are male, even a liberal male, who claims never to have leered, lusted or debated the female anatomy in unscientific terms, well, have a good day, Your Holiness.
We men have a sneaking suspicion that you women, too, can get “very lewd” in similar settings, though we’re not sure, since we’re never invited.
Certainly, no hound dog ever occupied the White House, right?
Other than Bill Clinton and John Kennedy, I mean. And those two Casanovas weren’t just talk.
Both foisted themselves on White House interns. Kennedy, patron saint of liberal America, once wrote to a college buddy:
“I can now get my tail as often and as free as I want, which is a step in the right direction.”
That’s pretty much what Trump told Billy Bush on the bus in 2005, though with modern variations of “tail.”
But, lo, the moral outrage on Saturday after the tape was unveiled by the Washington Post. Organizers of Sunday’s Trump-Hillary Clinton debate must be slavering over the ratings windfall.
This was raw T-bone steak for the stop-Trumpers and the holier-than-thou crowd. Cue the dog and phony show.
CNN anchors — none of whom has ever in their lives said anything remotely ribald — rolled their eyes and rolled out tapes of Trump being raunchy on Howard Stern’s radio show, as if to say, “what a pig!”
Howard Stern?! Clearly no one at CNN has ever listened to Howard. Thus they missed Bestiality Dial-a-date.
Meanwhile, Billy Bush, a total twit on the tape, apologized. Then Trump apologized. He had to. Locker-room banter or not, that tape does not play well in 2016.
It is primo ammo for the political elites of both American parties who view Trump as an alien.
We live in preachy times. Soon it will be taboo to look sideways at a member of the opposite sex. (While true sexism, career inequality, remains far from fixed).
Bad-boy boasting can return to bite you in the tail even a decade later.
Nor do we run photos of blondes in fountains any more, no matter how steamy the weather.
Donald Trump has changed, too. Look at his wife, Melania.
She’s a brunette.
Strobel’s column usually runs Monday to Thursday. mstrobel@postmedia.com
http://washingtonpost.com/video/c/embed/3bf16d1e-8caf-11e6-8cdc-4fbb1973b506
A dog and phony show | STROBEL | World | News | Toronto Sun
Blacks and Mexicans are in jailed for some of the things 'The Donald" has done. I
Generalizing and demeaning men now to defend this assh%$le !! Really!
Generalizing and demeaning men now to defend this assh%$le !! Really!
Or possibly for some of the things Donald is said to have done or said himself he has done! (So far all I've heard is what's been on the nrews, and I don't believe much of what I hear)
Trump should just avoid that subject. A lot of people don't care what Clinton did to his victims (after all they were probably just asking for it)
I've already given his campaign the maximum, so I guess I'll have to write a check to his superPAC.
There's an old saying "what's good for the goose is good for the gander". If Bill can get away with being an arch sleaze, why can't Trump get away with just being a run of the mill sleaze?
'Mini-Trump' upstages Donald Trump
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First posted: Tuesday, October 11, 2016 11:26 AM EDT | Updated: Tuesday, October 11, 2016 11:32 AM EDT
It's hard to upstage Donald Trump at his rallies, but a little boy managed to do just that on Monday night.
The Republican presidential candidate couldn't resist inviting the young boy - dressed in a suit and tie and sporting the billionaire's signature comb-over hairstyle - to join him on stage while he was campaigning in Wilkes-Barre, Pa.
"Wow! Bring him up," Trump said after spotting the boy.
In perhaps the cutest moment of Trump's campaign, he asked his tiny doppelganger, "Where's your daddy, and your mommy, right? Do you want to go back to them, or do you want to stay with Donald Trump?"
"Trump!" the mini-Trump said.
Republican presidential nominee Donald Trump kisses a child dressed as him during a rally at Mohegan Sun Arena in Wilkes-Barre, Pennsylvania on October 10, 2016. / AFP PHOTO / DOMINICK REUTERDOMINICK REUTER/AFP/Getty Images
www.youtube.com/watch?v=GY5OoSlFqAw
'Mini-Trump' upstages Donald Trump | World | News | Toronto Sun
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First posted: Tuesday, October 11, 2016 11:26 AM EDT | Updated: Tuesday, October 11, 2016 11:32 AM EDT
It's hard to upstage Donald Trump at his rallies, but a little boy managed to do just that on Monday night.
The Republican presidential candidate couldn't resist inviting the young boy - dressed in a suit and tie and sporting the billionaire's signature comb-over hairstyle - to join him on stage while he was campaigning in Wilkes-Barre, Pa.
"Wow! Bring him up," Trump said after spotting the boy.
In perhaps the cutest moment of Trump's campaign, he asked his tiny doppelganger, "Where's your daddy, and your mommy, right? Do you want to go back to them, or do you want to stay with Donald Trump?"
"Trump!" the mini-Trump said.
Republican presidential nominee Donald Trump kisses a child dressed as him during a rally at Mohegan Sun Arena in Wilkes-Barre, Pennsylvania on October 10, 2016. / AFP PHOTO / DOMINICK REUTERDOMINICK REUTER/AFP/Getty Images
www.youtube.com/watch?v=GY5OoSlFqAw
'Mini-Trump' upstages Donald Trump | World | News | Toronto Sun
Toronto eatery sorry for Trump-inspired taco post
By Antonella Artuso, Toronto Sun
First posted: Wednesday, October 12, 2016 01:15 PM EDT | Updated: Wednesday, October 12, 2016 01:52 PM EDT
TORONTO - A Toronto restaurant has apologized for an online post that left a very bad taste.
Influenced by U.S. presidential candidate Donald Trump’s now infamous grab-her-by-the-genitals comment, La Carnita posed a provocative question to its Instagram followers.
“What if Donald said, ‘Grab her by the taco’...”
La Carnita, which bills itself as “a celebration of urban culture through food, drink, art, and sound,” quickly apologized.
“Tonight, we made a mistake. A big one. We used a caption that was dumb, rude, and insensitive,” the restaurant chain tweeted.
One former customer tweeted, “What part of ‘he described sexual assault’ is not computing?”
Restaurant partner Andrew Richmond said the company is taking this incident “extremely seriously.”
Just six months earlier, the company launched a human resources department that created a conversation around these types of issues, he said.
“The incident (Tuesday) night fell outside that ... it’s inexcusable,” Richmond said.
The company intends to launch sensitivity training for its managers and donate a percentage of Tuesday sales for eight weeks to a charity that addresses women’s causes, he said.
After that time, La Carnita will follow up to let customers and the public know that it has taken this seriously, Richmond said.
Last week a 2005 recording was released of Trump making comments about women, including the assertion that he could “grab her by the p----” with impunity.
The candidate stated in the weekend presidential debate that he hated having said it.
The restaurant has been taken to task in the past for referring to female staff as “tac-hoes” on social media, a description it defended at the time as “just a funny hashtag.”
It also drew ire earlier this year for posting a bathroom sign depicting a man peeping furtively over a door at a woman inside. The restaurant previously said it replaced the sign eight months ago.
— With files from CP
A screen grab of the Trump-inspired Instagram post that La Carnita made on Tuesday, Oct. 12, 2016 (Screen grab)
Toronto eatery sorry for Trump-inspired taco post | Toronto & GTA | News | Toron
By Antonella Artuso, Toronto Sun
First posted: Wednesday, October 12, 2016 01:15 PM EDT | Updated: Wednesday, October 12, 2016 01:52 PM EDT
TORONTO - A Toronto restaurant has apologized for an online post that left a very bad taste.
Influenced by U.S. presidential candidate Donald Trump’s now infamous grab-her-by-the-genitals comment, La Carnita posed a provocative question to its Instagram followers.
“What if Donald said, ‘Grab her by the taco’...”
La Carnita, which bills itself as “a celebration of urban culture through food, drink, art, and sound,” quickly apologized.
“Tonight, we made a mistake. A big one. We used a caption that was dumb, rude, and insensitive,” the restaurant chain tweeted.
One former customer tweeted, “What part of ‘he described sexual assault’ is not computing?”
Restaurant partner Andrew Richmond said the company is taking this incident “extremely seriously.”
Just six months earlier, the company launched a human resources department that created a conversation around these types of issues, he said.
“The incident (Tuesday) night fell outside that ... it’s inexcusable,” Richmond said.
The company intends to launch sensitivity training for its managers and donate a percentage of Tuesday sales for eight weeks to a charity that addresses women’s causes, he said.
After that time, La Carnita will follow up to let customers and the public know that it has taken this seriously, Richmond said.
Last week a 2005 recording was released of Trump making comments about women, including the assertion that he could “grab her by the p----” with impunity.
The candidate stated in the weekend presidential debate that he hated having said it.
The restaurant has been taken to task in the past for referring to female staff as “tac-hoes” on social media, a description it defended at the time as “just a funny hashtag.”
It also drew ire earlier this year for posting a bathroom sign depicting a man peeping furtively over a door at a woman inside. The restaurant previously said it replaced the sign eight months ago.
— With files from CP
A screen grab of the Trump-inspired Instagram post that La Carnita made on Tuesday, Oct. 12, 2016 (Screen grab)
Toronto eatery sorry for Trump-inspired taco post | Toronto & GTA | News | Toron
I am not American, but my opinion (for joking and kidding): if Trump becomes the president .. he will be in confrontation with Putin .. so the two will be a funny pair .. it may lead to a new World war.
But about who will be the president .. not by election .. there is some hidden powers which suggest and decide that this one or that one may become the president .. this could be true.
In addition, when anyone becomes a president .. it will not be according to his will to do whatever he wants .. the hidden powers or influences will make him like a puppy.
Therefore, don't expect that any new president will be like the early presidents: like Lincoln or Washington and the others.
The presidents of America fall into three periods:
The first period: the heroes: the patriots (Washington, Lincoln ..etc.)
The second period: they started to fall under the influence of the Zionist lobby (Truman and Rosvelt and others)
http://quran-ayat.com/conflicts/english3.htm#The_Role_of_the_American_Imperialism_
The third period: starting after the assassination of J F Kennedy till now: they became the servants of the Zionist lobby.
This is my opinion, and God is the All-Knowing.
But about who will be the president .. not by election .. there is some hidden powers which suggest and decide that this one or that one may become the president .. this could be true.
In addition, when anyone becomes a president .. it will not be according to his will to do whatever he wants .. the hidden powers or influences will make him like a puppy.
Therefore, don't expect that any new president will be like the early presidents: like Lincoln or Washington and the others.
The presidents of America fall into three periods:
The first period: the heroes: the patriots (Washington, Lincoln ..etc.)
The second period: they started to fall under the influence of the Zionist lobby (Truman and Rosvelt and others)
http://quran-ayat.com/conflicts/english3.htm#The_Role_of_the_American_Imperialism_
The third period: starting after the assassination of J F Kennedy till now: they became the servants of the Zionist lobby.
This is my opinion, and God is the All-Knowing.
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Just as Trump says 'This is the last chance for the US' to shed the shackles that was put on them with the installment of the FED in 1913. That got JFK killed so these 'people' don't mess around. That is how the Clinton body count got as high as it currently is with nobody ever being brought to justice.