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I traveled to five Trump-branded properties in four countries. Here’s what I glimpsed about America’s future from being a tourist in the world of Trump.
Jason Wilson is WaPo's travel writer, so this rather long piece is about his visits to Trump "properties" around the world and the overall impressions they imprinted on him. It's not just interesting, well-written and informative, it's also oddly depressing.
So many people make dire warnings and predictions about Trump, about what will happen to the country once he’s finished being president, full of apocalyptic gloom and doom. But what if all that happens is that the country becomes more like his vacation properties? What happens if, after all the shouting and crying and offending and accusing and bragging and deregulating and delegitimizing, America’s reputation simply becomes defined as relentlessly mediocre?
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I really think this is worth a read. And I'd love to know if I'm the only one who finds it weirdly enlightening.
by barefooted on Mon, 03/19/2018 - 2:09pm
My takeaway was "very few lights on and nobody home". And no, it's much worse than mediocre - that's just the everday feeling. The final crash is much worse.
by PeraclesPlease on Mon, 03/19/2018 - 4:03pm
America already had a reputation for being relentlessly mediocre, didn't it?
What isn't mediocre, education, national lands and parks, social values of equality, tolerance, democratic values, promotion of human rights, destination for the 'tempest tossed', land of opportunity for all....yes, Trump and the Republicans are trying to destroy.
by NCD on Mon, 03/19/2018 - 3:18pm
I didn't learn anything from the article that I didn't already know about "Trump taste", but that could be because of my career, life history and interests. "Trump taste" is like art or pornography only in that: you know it when you see it but it's real hard to put into words. Where you use it as a label to explain something that hard to put into words, i.e. "you know, Trump style." I can struggle to explain it with some words a little bit for your thread, throw some stuff out there:
by artappraiser on Mon, 03/19/2018 - 11:42pm