Monday, May 20, 2019

Trump and the National Association of Realtors

Invited to address the NAR at its (annual?) meeting last week in Washington, the New York Times reports:

By the time the president took the stage before the National Association of Realtors in Washington on Friday, he was in a feisty mood. 
He recalled that a consultant tried to make work for himself by identifying environmental concerns on a property Mr. Trump wanted to develop. “I fired his ass so fast,” the president recalled.
He told the Realtors that he used to refuse to pay brokers their traditional 6 percent commission and instead gave them just 1 percent. 
“I was famous for that,” he said. When they booed, he quickly retreated. “Don’t worry. Nobody accepted it. But I tried like hell.” 
Then he went after one of his favorite targets — journalists — claiming that recent reports of infighting within his national security team were made up. “There is no source,” he said. “The person doesn’t exist. The person’s not alive. It’s bullshit, O.K.? It’s bullshit.” 
And with that, the television networks had to hit their bleeper again.
This is disappoint (but not surprising) to hear the President of our country behave this way.  (Click on the link above for the full story).

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