BREAKING: Australia has CANCELLED the 91-story Trump Tower they planned to build. The local developer saying the Trump

[riversedge]

well, the Trump FAMILY are with Trump in CHINA--I am sure they are landing more contracts as I write@


BREAKING: Australia has CANCELLED the 91-story Trump Tower they planned to build.

The local developer saying the Trump brand has become “toxic".

“Let’s just say that with the Iran war and everything else, the Trump brand was increasingly unpopular in Australia,” David Young

Link to tweet

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[spanone]

1. Toxic is too kind.

K&R

[malaise]

5. Should have been toxic before

2016

[wnylib]

20. True. Dangerous is more likely. A Trump tower would invite

terrorist attacks from Iranian sympathizers.

Also, it would be a monument to a fascist.

[canetoad]

41. Too right!

It was planned for an extremely high density location, famous world-wide. I doubt he'll ever want to build in Tasmania though, not upmarket enough. Lucky for you.

On Edit: So sorry Wynlib, I've mixed up my DUers but I'll leave the response up in case tasmanian Devil sees it.

[Kid Berwyn]

2. Toxic here, too.

It’s good to remind the public.

[chouchou]

3. Perhaps we can unbuild the Tramp monstrosity here in Florida.

That would be a nice step..

[tanyev]

4. Of course that giant phallic symbol had to be taller than every other building.

[dalton99a]

6. The Trump name will soon be as popular as Hitler

[peppertree]

15. And with mostly the same people.

[wnylib]

21. That's the ptoblem. It IS popular among Hitler supporters.

[Norrrm]

7. Trump Saddam statues

[Deuxcents]

8. 91 stories tall would be a scar in their skyline so they made a good decision

[canetoad]

48. The skyline is pretty awful now

Haven't been there since the 70s, when the tallest building was 3 or 4 floors and my sister and I rented a unit for a week for &40. Maybe it reminds him (trump) of home. Plenty of better places a bit further north.

[Clouds Passing]

9. The word/name trump will become the most toxic curse in all of history.

[twodogsbarking]

10. I still hope to see Trump down under.

[niyad]

11. Hey, david, where in the fuck have you been for at least the last 11 years?

You are just now noticing this?

Note to Australians: This person is an idiot. Do not do business with him.

[blubunyip]

12. Good for Australia!!

Where some degree of responsible development prevails.

That's the last thing Australia's Gold Coast (Miami equivalent) needs.

------------------YUK:

Which cities have a Trump Tower?
Buildings
Trump Tower Manila, Philippines.
Trump Tower Punta del Este, Uruguay.
Trump Towers (Sunny Isles Beach), Florida, US.
Trump Towers Istanbul, Turkey.
Trump Towers Pune, India.
Trump International Hotel and Tower (Chicago), Illinois, US.
Trump International Hotel and Tower (New York City), New York, US.

[PatSeg]

13. Oh my god, that is ugly!

Australia dodged a bullet on that one, yuck!

Talk about overcompensating!!!

[eppur_se_muova]

14. An appropriate comment ...

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"The Line" is at 6:19.

[DFW]

16. My parents LOVED that spoof!

They were the only ones in the movie theater that got the joke, too. It was shown as a short preview to some film they had gone to see. At first, they were remarking to each other how close Swedish seemed to English (in fact, it is--I learned to speak Swedish years later), until they finally figured out what was going on ("Golden Escargot Films" wasn't a dead giveaway, apparently), and it was English being spoken as fake Swedish. But then they were howling with laughter in the movie theater, being shushed by the other people watching, who hadn't gotten the joke yet, and were under the impression they were seeing some kind of preview for the next Ingmar Bergman film.

By the way, this was also the inspiration for the closing scene of the TFT video "My Pillow, My Pillow, My Pillow."

[Ocelot II]

28. That was the most hilarious spoof of a serious film I've ever seen!

[DFW]

30. I took Swedish in college for most of my college career

If you know the language, you realize what pains someone took to make the dialogue sound like fake Swedish. I cannot imagine how many takes were needed for the actors to do those lines with a straight face.

[Ocelot II]

31. The trick with Swedish is its weird rhythm - makes it instantly identifiable.

[catchnrelease]

35. A very young

Madeline Kahn as Sigfrid!!

This seems like something Monty Python would come up with. Very good!

[Grokenstein]

42. Wi n0t trei a h0liday in Sweden this yeer?

(had to edit my reply title because it won't take the special characters)
See the løveli lakes
The wonderful telephøne system
And mani interesting furry animals
Including the majestic møøse
A møøse once bit my sister...

I've been watching lots of YouTube reactions to Monty Python and the Holy Grail lately, and 75% of the reactors either think something's wrong with their settings at first or miss the joke because they ignore credits and subtitles entirely.

[biocube]

17. Uh Oh. Time for Trump to amp up the tariffs on Australia!

NM

[DFW]

18. For a while, "Moscow Tower" was a planned Trump (+Putin) project that never got off the drawing board.

We borrowed a line from Johnny Cash referring to this, too:

"Moscow Tower will get a buyer.
"Don't believe it, I'm a liar."

[niyad]

33. How did I miss that one???

[DFW]

47. 'Tis written:

Better late than never

[Martin68]

19. Smart move. You could never trust trump to complete the project or meet his financial obligations to pay for the

construction. You could also count on Trump to declare bankruptcy and leave an ugly eyesore behind.

[ChicagoTeamster]

22. GOOD! Hopefully more contracts will be cancelled and properties that licensed the Trump name will cancel contracts

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And pull his name off of their buildings. His golf properties are done too. I don't think Trump org's new Persian Gulf golf business ventures are going to continue either.

I wish we could get his name off of the Chicago building.

[calimary]

45. All in good time, my friend.

All in good time.

[Bluetus]

23. It took them 20 years to figure this out?

That makes no sense. Obviously something else happened to trash this deal.

[misanthrope]

24. Yes, that brand name went south long ago

The Aussies don't have their finger in the wind.

[Bluetus]

25. It is much more likely that Trump tried to screw them.

The brand has been garbage. But the developers probably thought that Trump would be bringing money to the table. Bad assumption.

[markpkessinger]

26. I spent the entire month of November in Australia, visiting a long-time family friend from Melbourne . . ..

. . . Nearly everybody I met asked how our country could ever have elected Trump. In fact, there are quite a number of things about American culture that they have a very hard time understanding.

The thing is, Australians (at least all of the ones I met), are laid back, very reasonable people. Their politics varies, of course, from one person to the next. But whether they fall to the left or the right of the political spectrum, most recognize that the taxes they pay to support things like their robust system of public health, which includes dental as well as medical coverage, or programs that help those who are enduring difficult times financially, are a good and necessary thing.

So it really doesn't surprise me in the least that they would find the Trump brand to be too toxic!

[Blue Owl]

27. AKA the Tower of Babble

[niyad]

34. The Tower of Babbling Idiots?

[Figarosmom]

29. One down and many more to go.

Hope it starts a domino effect and others will tell him where to shove it.

[Permanut]

32. The Trump brand has "become" toxic?

Mkay.

[calimary]

44. Works for me!

[BlueWavePsych]

36. K&R

[Marie Marie]

37. I seem to remember that more than a couple of buildings removeing the Trump name from the properties

during his first term because it was depreciating the value of the real estate. You'd think everyone would have learned.

[Cha]

38. Aussies are So Smart and

I just happened to have a son in law who is from Melbourne, and my grandkids have dual citizenship.

TY, and Australia.

[whathehell]

39. Good! n/t

[luvallpeeps]

40. Byaaaah!!!

[Orrex]

43. Tomorrow we'll hear that Australia is two weeks away from having a nuclear bomb

[C Moon]

46. They should build the 91 floors down under: so trump can be closer to his future forever home.

[Aussie105]

49. Most countries know having anything 'Trump' branded is the kiss of death.

No developer wants to alienate prospective buyers of high priced tower apartments.

Those high rises so close to the coast are going to be living on borrowed time anyway.

Rising sea levels.

Rising ground water eating away at foundations, etc.