Let me tell you about Lana Marks. She is a fashionista who designs some of the most expensive handbags in the world. She is also a club member at Mar-A-Lago, Donald Trump’s exclusive resort. If you’re thinking to yourself “that sounds like basis for a political appointment!” then you and Donald Trump are on the same page, because he’s appointing her to be the next ambassador to South Africa. Among the previously listed qualifications, she also brings with her the keen ability to lie about her Tennis career, and a history of not paying lawyers, employees, accountants and landlords…which actually might be a qualification in Donald Trump’s eyes. She has no political or diplomatic experience at all, and she’s known to be an enthusiastic gossiper…so you know, I’m sure she’ll be fine. The lesson here is that if you want to get into politics, but avoid all the grassroots upstarting, just spend millions of dollars at Mar-A-Lago and just buy your way in!
I was kind of wondering when Donald Trump was going to comment on the whole situation with Sarah Huckabee Sanders being asked to leave the Red Hen restaurant. It was just one of those events that would be a perfect little distraction for him to talk about something ultimately unimportant, but still something he could make sound like some kind of personal injustice. Of course the way he was going to see this was as a supreme injustice. I mean, how unfair of someone to refuse to serve another because of personal beliefs! (No one on his side of the aisle seems to see the irony regarding their stance on this and their stance on allowing the refusal of service to gay people for the very same reason). But the hilarious part was that Trump basically attacked the restaurant for being gross. I mean, he’s never set foot in the place, so his claims are baseless, but for him to attack the cleanly standards of a restaurant, and implying shady health and safety standards is deeply hypocritical. For the record, from all indication, the Red Hen is a lovely little spot, that looks perfectly sanitary, and their health and safety record reflects that. On the other hand, You have Trump brand restaurants including the dining establishment in his precious Mar-a-Lago, with health violations a mile long, many of them long standing issues that never get fixed. As late as last November, the kitchen in Mar-a-Lago had as many as 15 violations. And some of the long standing ones are pretty bad. We’re talking cockroaches bad. So it’s hard to take him seriously as a judge of good health and safety standard.
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