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General Category => National/Breaking News => Topic started by: mystery-ak on February 20, 2021, 11:30:00 pm
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Pathetic: NYC Mayor shuts down skating rinks to punish Trump organization
Jazz Shaw Posted at 1:01 pm on February 20, 2021
We learned last month that New York City Mayor Bill de Blasio was cooking up a plan to cancel all of the Trump organization’s contracts with the city. Those contracts involve the operation of a golf course, the carousel in Central Park and two skating rinks. The contracts were set to expire in April anyway, but apparently, the city’s showboating mayor couldn’t wait that long. It was just announced that de Blasio wants the Trump-owned operations shut down and moved out by February 26. (In one week.) That means that operations will end tomorrow to give them time to pack everything up. So any children showing up to go skating this week will find the rinks closed for business. (NY Post)
Skaters arriving at Central Park’s two ice rinks are in for a cold awakening next week — the rinks, which are both managed by the Trump Organization, are being shuttered by City Hall to punish the former president for the deadly Jan. 6 Capitol riot, The Post has learned.
The Trump Organization says its last day of operating the iconic Wollman Rink and the smaller Lasker Rink at the park’s northern end will be Sunday.
The rink contracts had been set to expire in April, but Mayor de Blasio has moved to ice Trump out a month early, effective Feb. 26.
This pathetic move by de Blasio is being done for partisan political reasons and he’s not even trying to hide it. One of his spokespeople said three weeks ago that “Trump has been impeached from operating the ice rink.â€
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https://hotair.com/archives/jazz-shaw/2021/02/20/pathetic-nyc-mayor-shuts-skating-rinks-punish-trump-organization/
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Blasio and Cuomo are childish petty little trolls.
They are exactly what NYC deserves.
I hope the entire city goes bankrupt and out of business.
They deserve every bit of what they are getting.
I hope very much they are there for life.
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Can Trump take any improvements with him?
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This is what tyrants do. Punish innocent people to get back at their political enemies.
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This move is pathetically petty. The short notice - one week - suggests to me that de Blah-Blah did it in the hope that improvements to the sites/facilities that the Trump organization made will be left intact. Hopefully the Trump organization will demonstrate how quickly it can arrange for de Blah-Blah's avaricious plundering hope to be disappointed.
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https://pjmedia.com/vodkapundit/2021/01/15/insanity-wrap-126-obsessed-de-blasio-purging-trump-organization-from-city-contracts-n1387314
Insanity Wrap #126: Obsessed de Blasio Purging Trump Organization from City Contracts
Insanity Wrap must remind you that the Wollman Rink was the one that then-New York Mayor Ed Koch tried and failed to renovate for years at great public expense. Trump took over the project and at his own expense got the rink operating for the public in just six months. The Trump Organization has operated it since, returning most of the profits to public works.
But we can’t have that anymore because Orange Man Bad.
Yeppers, the Trump organization renovated and upgraded the facilities, and now de Blah-Blah is taking those improvements. The rinks closed yesterday, so the Trump organization can move out (they have just a week, IIRC). What are the odds the rinks will be reopened any time soon ... if ever. And if reopened, how long before the rinks deteriorate into shabbiness?
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NYC flip-flop, https://hotair.com/archives/jazz-shaw/2021/02/22/new-york-city-flip-flops-closing-trump-operated-skating-rinks/ .
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Eric Trump
@EricTrump
@NYCMayor Mr. Mayor - Thank You for keeping Wollman and Lasker Rinks open — you’ve just made countless NYC families (along w our 250 employees) incredibly happy. This is a bright moment for New York and please know we appreciate it. I look forward to saying “thanks†in person.
6:52 PM · Feb 21, 2021·Twitter for iPhone
https://twitter.com/EricTrump/status/1363637701719846912