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Trump’s epic trip to Mount Vernon
Posted on 4/10/19 at 6:32 pm
Posted on 4/10/19 at 6:32 pm
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President Donald Trump had some advice for George Washington. During a guided tour of Mount Vernon last April with French president Emmanuel Macron, Trump learned that Washington was one of the major real-estate speculators of his era.
So, he couldn’t understand why America’s first president didn’t name his historic Virginia compound or any of the other property he acquired after himself.
“If he was smart, he would’ve put his name on it,” Trump said, according to three sources briefed on the exchange. “You’ve got to put your name on stuff or no one remembers you.”
The VIPs’ tour guide for the evening, Mount Vernon president and CEO Doug Bradburn, told the president that Washington did, after all, succeed in getting the nation’s capital named after him. Good point, Trump said with a laugh.
Or an entire state, or the Washington Monument (which was also the tallest building in the world before the Eiffel Tower was built), or several sports teams and universities.
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The president’s disinterest in Washington made it tough for tour guide Bradburn to sustain Trump’s interest during a deluxe 45-minute tour of the property which he later described to associates as "truly bizarre." The Macrons, Bradburn has told several people, were far more knowledgeable about the history of the property than the president.
Jesus.
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A former history professor with a PhD, Bradburn “was desperately trying to get [Trump] interested in" Washington's house, said a source familiar with the visit, so he spoke in terms Trump understands best — telling the president that Washington was an 18th century real-estate titan who had acquired property throughout Virginia and what would come to be known as Washington, D.C.
Trump asked whether Washington was "really rich," according to a second person familiar with the visit. In fact, Washington was either the wealthiest or among the wealthiest Americans of his time, thanks largely to his mini real estate empire.
“That is what Trump was really the most excited about,” this person said.
If Trump was impressed with Washington’s real estate instincts, he was less taken by Mount Vernon itself, which the first president personally expanded from a modest one-and-a-half story home into an 11,000 square foot mansion. The rooms, Trump said, were too small, the staircases too narrow, and he even spotted some unevenness in the floorboards, according to four sources briefed on his comments. He could have built the place better, he said, and for less money.
He is a funny mother fricker, I got to give him that.
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And despite his criticisms, Trump found something to like at Mount Vernon, too. Among the artifacts preserved there is the bed where Washington passed away from a throat infection in 1799. Trump, who is infamously picky about where he sleeps and resists spending nights away from home, felt out the bedpost and told the Macrons and Bradburn that he approved, according to three people briefed on the event.
"A good bed to die in,” Trump said.
President Burgundy, ladies and gentlemen. If you can’t laugh at this, then you have no sense of humor.
Posted on 4/10/19 at 6:36 pm to OMLandshark
Mount Vernon came out today and denied this story
It is the first time the mount Vernon org has ever made a public statement to the press
Why do you trust 3 anonymous sources over a non-partisan organization that runs the place?
Although, the comments are funny.
It just bothers me so much that these people don’t go on the record. If the story is true, why worry that your name is public?
It is the first time the mount Vernon org has ever made a public statement to the press
Why do you trust 3 anonymous sources over a non-partisan organization that runs the place?
Although, the comments are funny.
It just bothers me so much that these people don’t go on the record. If the story is true, why worry that your name is public?
This post was edited on 4/10/19 at 6:39 pm
Posted on 4/10/19 at 6:37 pm to OMLandshark
Mount Vernon is a dump.
Where are the chandeliers?
Where is the shrimp buffet?
Trump would have that place decked out in the finest Italian marble floors, mother of pearl mirrors, and, for the yard, a solid gold fountain filled with the sweat of Ukrainian supermodels.
Class the place up.
Where are the chandeliers?
Where is the shrimp buffet?
Trump would have that place decked out in the finest Italian marble floors, mother of pearl mirrors, and, for the yard, a solid gold fountain filled with the sweat of Ukrainian supermodels.
Class the place up.
Posted on 4/10/19 at 6:37 pm to OMLandshark
Libs have no sense of humor. This is Classic Orange Savage.
Posted on 4/10/19 at 6:38 pm to HailHailtoMichigan!
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Why do you trust 3 anonymous sources over a non-partisan organization that runs the place?
It’s fricking hilarious regardless.
Posted on 4/10/19 at 6:39 pm to OMLandshark
Yep. No way his statements were taken out of context by the media. That would never happen to Trump.
Posted on 4/10/19 at 6:40 pm to OMLandshark
That glorious orange bastard
Tarzana probably believes this is grounds for Impeachment
Tarzana probably believes this is grounds for Impeachment
Posted on 4/10/19 at 6:41 pm to OMLandshark
Fake news. First downvote.
Posted on 4/10/19 at 6:41 pm to OMLandshark
The left were flipping out over this. They have zero sense of humor
Posted on 4/10/19 at 6:44 pm to OMLandshark
Breaking News: Trump is a narcissistic boor.
Is anyone surprised?
Is anyone surprised?
Posted on 4/10/19 at 6:45 pm to Choctaw
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The left were flipping out over this. They have zero sense of humor
Idk why they would even care.
To them George Washington was a racist slave owning old white man and not much more.
Posted on 4/10/19 at 6:49 pm to OMLandshark
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Or an entire state, or the Washington Monument (which was also the tallest building in the world before the Eiffel Tower was built), or several sports teams and universities.
Yet no white people with the last name of Washington, or Jefferson for that matter. You know any?
Posted on 4/10/19 at 6:49 pm to OMLandshark
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This post was edited on 8/14/19 at 2:16 am
Posted on 4/10/19 at 6:52 pm to Homesick Tiger
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Yet no white people with the last name of Washington
Know a few from high school.
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Jefferson
Never known a Jefferson.
Posted on 4/10/19 at 6:54 pm to OMLandshark
First. Trump is one funny Magnificent Orange SOB.
Second. Libtards have no sense of humor.
Third. As recent events proved, MSM is Fake News. Politico tried to overthrow the 2016 election. If they told me water was wet, I would need verification. Anonymous sources mean they just made the shite up to continue the coup!
Second. Libtards have no sense of humor.
Third. As recent events proved, MSM is Fake News. Politico tried to overthrow the 2016 election. If they told me water was wet, I would need verification. Anonymous sources mean they just made the shite up to continue the coup!
Posted on 4/10/19 at 6:55 pm to OMLandshark
Who the frick gives a shite whether the president knows anything about Mt. Vernon?
from "won't last 6 months" to this shite 2 and a half years later
from "won't last 6 months" to this shite 2 and a half years later
Posted on 4/10/19 at 6:56 pm to LuckyTiger
Trump really is the real life version of Al Czervik crashing Judge Smails’ elitist swamp party. It is glorious to watch.
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