NEW YORK (AP) – The PGA canceled its tournament at its golf course. Banks say they will no longer lend to you. New York City wants to end its contract to exploit the Central Park skating rink.
His son Eric told The Associated Press on Tuesday that his son would leave the presidency with a powerful brand backed by President Donald Trump’s business empire, as the deadly riots at the U.S. Capitol are part of a Liberal “cultural cancellation”. millions of voters who will follow him “to the ends of the earth.”
“We live in the age of canceled culture, but this has not started this week. It’s something they’ve been doing with us and with others for years, ”said Trump, who along with his brother, Donald Jr., have run the family business since his father took office four years ago. “If you don’t agree with them, if you don’t like them, they will try to cancel you.”
Statements in an extended AP interview come amid an extraordinary backlash against the Trump Organization after thousands of supporters of the president stormed the Capitol last week in a violent riot that sought to prevent lawmakers from confirming victory. of Joe Biden’s presidential election.
Amid allegations that Trump incited people, the PGA of America voted to withdraw the eponymous championship from Trump’s Bedminister Golf Course, New Jersey, next year, a British golf organization said the British Open will not be played on a Trump property in the “foreseeable future,” e-commerce company Shopify stopped helping run Trump’s online store, and New York City announced it wanted to cancel. lar contracts with Trump for skating rinks and a golf course in the Bronx.
“The president incited a rebellion against the U.S. government, a clearly unconstitutional act,” Democratic Mayor Bill de Blasio said. “It simply came to our notice then.
And potentially the most troubling of all, several banks, including one of its main lenders, Deutsche Bank, have reportedly said they would no longer lend to Trump’s company, raising the prospect that the president may have to dig into your pockets to pay off your loans if you can’t refinance.
“We witnessed the president of the United States encouraging riot police and refraining from calling on the National Guard to protect Congress in the line of duty,” said a bank that cut ties, New York’s Signature Bank , once so close to Trump that he put his daughter Ivanka on his board.
Eric Trump looked puzzled but combative as he spoke on the phone from his office in the Trump Tower. He dismissed the successes as a major threat to a company that has a minimum debt -4 billion dollars against billions of assets- and can always take advantage of its huge cash holdings, not to mention the loyalty of the which are attached by the president.
“You have a man who would be followed to the ends of the Earth by one hundred million Americans,” Eric Trump said. “He created the largest political movement in American history and his opportunities are endless.”
Despite this optimistic assessment, the limited data available to his private company suggests that the Trump Organization’s golf properties, as well as other parts of its business, may be having problems.
Its two Scottish golf courses have been losing money for years, it had to move more than 1,000 workers last year due to the coronavirus, apartment prices in Trump’s residential buildings have fallen sharply and the company has not been successful in its plans to sell one of its most famous properties, the Trump International Hotel in Washington DC
A person who does business with members of Trump’s golf club in Bedminster said several members plan to freeze their members after the Capitol riots and it will be difficult to get new members.
“They don’t want me to embarrass them publicly for being a member of their golf club,” said the person, who applied for anonymity because he doesn’t want to lose his clients ’business. “Do you think a guy who works for a financial company or a pharmaceutical company wants to see his picture in the newspaper?”
Along with his father, Eric Trump spoke to the crowd on Jan. 6 before many of them rushed to the Capitol, crossed the barriers, attacked police, vandalized the building and left five people dead.
“Have a spine. It shows a bit of a fight. Learn from Donald Trump, ”Eric Trump said before urging them to“ march to the Capitol ”.
President Trump said Tuesday during a visit to the border wall in Texas that he had no responsibility to encourage the insurgency and warned that efforts to impute him for his comments only threatened to further divide the country, “which is very dangerous”.
Asked directly in his interview if he felt his father was inciting the crowd, Eric Trump paused and the line ended.