Trump melts down in the Hotel Roanoke, literally

[sinkspur]

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Trump melts down in the Hotel Roanoke, literally

The Republican nominee apparently suffered greatly under the stage lights in a packed ballroom. Besides blasting Hillary Clinton, Tim Kaine and Elizabeth Warren, he repeatedly criticized the hotel's air conditioning. Really?


Posted: Monday, July 25, 2016 11:45 pm

By Dan Casey

Memo to Donald Trump: It gets hot in Virginia in July, buster. Suck it up. There’s nothing you can do about that. Deal with it.

The Republican presidential nominee didn’t deal with it very well Monday afternoon at The Hotel Roanoke.

He trashed presumptive Democratic nominee Hillary Clinton for her “bad judgment” in picking Sen. Tim Kaine as her running mate.

He slashed Kaine as a weak and ineffective Virginia governor and “a political hack.” He bashed Sen. Elizabeth Warren, a frequent Trump foil, as “Pocahontas,” calling the Massachusetts Democrat “the worst senator in the U.S. Senate.”

Weirdly, he warned that without the right appointees on the U.S. Supreme Court, “it will be back to Venezuela.” Huh? Seriously, he said that.

And, in the biggest room in the finest hotel in Roanoke, along with at least 1,600 chanting and cheering Trumpeteers, the candidate trained his attention-deficit-disordered thoughts on a purely apolitical topic: The room was too hot.
He whined and whined about The Hotel Roanoke’s air conditioning. No kidding.

“I think this ballroom and the people who run this hotel should be ashamed,” Trump told the crowd. “I think it’s actually cooler outside than it is in this damn ballroom.” (It wasn’t.)

He boasted there were 1,000 people standing outside on the Wells Avenue side in 104-degree heat, listening to him on loudspeakers. (There weren’t; there were at most 50, according to a city firefighter who was outside, and the temperature never hit 100.)

Perhaps jokingly, Trump suggested he wouldn’t pay the bill — after his campaign apparatus commandeered a large chunk of the hotel for most of the day. Trump’s a tough guy, see. Nobody takes advantage of him. Especially, whoever runs the thermostat.
“I feel like I’m in a sauna. I don’t know what hotel this is,” Trump went on. “You let people suffer and don’t turn on the air conditioning. This is ridiculous.”

It was ridiculous, but not in the way Trump intended. The ridiculous part was him standing there wailing about it.
He suggested the hotel turned off the AC to save money. (It didn’t. The main ballroom’s air conditioning was set at 63 degrees. “We did have it set as low as it could possibly go,” said Michael Quonce, the hotel’s public relations manager. “It was running at 99 percent efficiency.”)

Trump’s comments were chintzy, low-rent, third-rate and wholly unbecoming for a major party presidential nominee. But they are pure Trump, full of narcissistic bullying, worrying about his own comfort, picking on an entity that can’t pick back.

For the record, the hotel doors were open for two hours before he began speaking, to let in thousands of Trumpeteers (some were shunted off to an overflow ballroom). People were packed in the main ballroom like sardines. Trump was standing under stage lighting. What does he expect? You don’t get meat-locker temps under those circumstances.

And part of it was Trump’s own fault. The temps in the room probably went up 10 degrees after he opened his mouth. (OK, just kidding on that one.)

Around this country in recent weeks, cops have been assassinated in Dallas. Black men have been shot to death by police for little apparent reason. A crazy man with a gun slaughtered patrons of a gay bar in Florida.

And the Republican presidential nominee is worrying about a warm room in Western Virginia in the middle of the summer? Puh-lease. There are more important things he ought to focus his scattered thoughts on.

Presidential campaigns are long, arduous and frequently nasty. By circumstance of the calendar, part of them happen in the summer, when temperatures can get hot. The rhetoric can get hot, too.

What’s that old expression? The one that begins, “If you can’t stand the heat ...”

If Donald Trump can’t stand the heat of a Hotel Roanoke ballroom in July, perhaps he’s not cut out for the rigors of the campaign to come.

Maybe he ought to get out now, and go find some place to cool down.

[sinkspur]

Trump's a grumpy old man who's accustomed to palatial splendor, total comfort, and not having to worry if his spray tan is melting off.

[Frank Cannon]

Good thing to disparage one of the better Roanoke hotels. It's not like VA is in play or anything or that Roanoke is a large city there.

[ABX]

“I think this ballroom and the people who run this hotel should be ashamed,” Trump told the crowd. “I think it’s actually cooler outside than it is in this damn ballroom.”....“I feel like I’m in a sauna. I don’t know what hotel this is,” Trump went on. “You let people suffer and don’t turn on the air conditioning. This is ridiculous.”......

Ahhh, poor little princess doesn't want to sweat.

[EC]

I agree with the author that there are plenty more important things to talk about than a hotel ballroom's air conditioning.

By the same token, there's plenty more to write about than a pampered old man's tantrum about a hotel ballroom's air conditioning. 

I mean - Hillary's bad judgement? There are entire encyclopedias containing her bad judgement, but what, exactly, is Trump's reasoning here? Is Kaine somehow tied into the corruption that surrounds the Clintons?

There were about 50 people outside listening - what sort of people? What did they think?

[don-o]

For the record, the hotel doors were open for two hours before he began speaking, to let in thousands of Trumpeteers (some were shunted off to an overflow ballroom). People were packed in the main ballroom like sardines. Trump was standing under stage lighting. What does he expect? You don’t get meat-locker temps under those circumstances.

Doesn't everyone set the A/C on 63 and at some point open all the windows and doors in the house? Isn't that the way to cool off the back yard?

[Bigun]

4 Signs From The Last 24 Hours That Trump Suckered Conservatives

http://www.gopbriefingroom.com/index.php/topic,217668.msg988595/topicseen.html#msg988595

[bilo]

You would think that a guy with such a strong background in real estate would understand how A/C works and how BTU's are produced from body heat.

[Night Hides Not]

Doesn't everyone set the A/C on 63 and at some point open all the windows and doors in the house? Isn't that the way to cool off the back yard?

Our a/c is set at 75, and it can feel chilly at night. That's with the new units we purchased last year, to replace 17-18 YO units. Never understood why temps are set so low, but that's just me.

[ABX]

Maybe it was his blood pressure. He seems to be a bit red, not his usual cheeto orange.

[Silver Pines]

I'm sixty miles east of Roanoke; the temperature in the area yesterday reached 95, not 104. 

Also, according to a weather map I saw and a friend up north, it was even hotter in the NJ/NYC area.  I wonder how much his soft, pampered, flabby self would have complained if he was back home.

[ConstitutionRose]

Maybe it was his blood pressure. He seems to be a bit red, not his usual cheeto orange.

I don’t think that is a healthy looking color. If he is spraying it on he's gone over done it and if it's his natural color he needs to see a doc.  Especially  a man his age and weight.

[Night Hides Not]

I'm sixty miles east of Roanoke; the temperature in the area yesterday reached 95, not 104. 

Also, according to a weather map I saw and a friend up north, it was even hotter in the NJ/NYC area.  I wonder how much his soft, pampered, flabby self would have complained if he was back home.

Funny you say that: I've got an alumni buddy from Long Island in Texas this week, and his first text message to me was:  Dude...your state is friggin hot.

I didn't have the heart to tell him that August is usually worse. By then, the cake is fully baked and there's nothing to absorb the heat.

 

[Hoodat]

You would think that a guy with such a strong background in real estate would understand how A/C works and how BTU's are produced from body heat.

You would think that a guy his age would be able to complete a sentence.

[Wingnut]

There is always the possibilty of him stroking out before November.   
I have him going on  Sept 11 in our Dead Pool.  Always the show man, The T in PT Barnum, I figure he'll collapse during some 7 11 event.

[Suppressed]

I'm sixty miles east of Roanoke; the temperature in the area yesterday reached 95, not 104. 

Also, according to a weather map I saw and a friend up north, it was even hotter in the NJ/NYC area.  I wonder how much his soft, pampered, flabby self would have complained if he was back home.

The heat index was around 104, though, wasn't it? 

Not that I'm a fan of this lout, but it's been very humid lately in the east, and I hear many people talking about the heat index as a result.

[ConstitutionRose]

The heat index was around 104, though, wasn't it? 

Not that I'm a fan of this lout, but it's been very humid lately in the east, and I hear many people talking about the heat index as a result.

The joke around here is there are 5 seasons: winter, spring, summer, SWEALTER and fall.  I checked.  Temps are pretty normal.  A bit hotter this week, a bit cooler next.  It's July and August in the south.  After July 4th, you stay indoors or go to the mountains or the beach or the lake and complain about the heat. 

[Silver Pines]

Funny you say that: I've got an alumni buddy from Long Island in Texas this week, and his first text message to me was:  Dude...your state is friggin hot.

I didn't have the heart to tell him that August is usually worse. By then, the cake is fully baked and there's nothing to absorb the heat.

 

LOL

July is our hottest month, but I'm just counting the days till September.  Last summer wasn't bad at all, but this one has been disgusting.  The windows are fogged from the humidity.

[Silver Pines]

The heat index was around 104, though, wasn't it? 

Not that I'm a fan of this lout, but it's been very humid lately in the east, and I hear many people talking about the heat index as a result.

I know the heat index was at least 100, but I tend to shut it out when the weather people go there (and they won't shut up about it, lol).   The temps are bad enough; stop making it worse!   

[youknowwho]

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Trump melts down in the Hotel Roanoke, literally

The Republican nominee apparently suffered greatly under the stage lights in a packed ballroom. Besides blasting Hillary Clinton, Tim Kaine and Elizabeth Warren, he repeatedly criticized the hotel's air conditioning. Really?


Posted: Monday, July 25, 2016 11:45 pm

By Dan Casey

Memo to Donald Trump: It gets hot in Virginia in July, buster. Suck it up. There’s nothing you can do about that. Deal with it.

The Republican presidential nominee didn’t deal with it very well Monday afternoon at The Hotel Roanoke.

He trashed presumptive Democratic nominee Hillary Clinton for her “bad judgment” in picking Sen. Tim Kaine as her running mate.

He slashed Kaine as a weak and ineffective Virginia governor and “a political hack.” He bashed Sen. Elizabeth Warren, a frequent Trump foil, as “Pocahontas,” calling the Massachusetts Democrat “the worst senator in the U.S. Senate.”

Weirdly, he warned that without the right appointees on the U.S. Supreme Court, “it will be back to Venezuela.” Huh? Seriously, he said that.

And, in the biggest room in the finest hotel in Roanoke, along with at least 1,600 chanting and cheering Trumpeteers, the candidate trained his attention-deficit-disordered thoughts on a purely apolitical topic: The room was too hot.
He whined and whined about The Hotel Roanoke’s air conditioning. No kidding.

“I think this ballroom and the people who run this hotel should be ashamed,” Trump told the crowd. “I think it’s actually cooler outside than it is in this damn ballroom.” (It wasn’t.)

He boasted there were 1,000 people standing outside on the Wells Avenue side in 104-degree heat, listening to him on loudspeakers. (There weren’t; there were at most 50, according to a city firefighter who was outside, and the temperature never hit 100.)

Perhaps jokingly, Trump suggested he wouldn’t pay the bill — after his campaign apparatus commandeered a large chunk of the hotel for most of the day. Trump’s a tough guy, see. Nobody takes advantage of him. Especially, whoever runs the thermostat.
“I feel like I’m in a sauna. I don’t know what hotel this is,” Trump went on. “You let people suffer and don’t turn on the air conditioning. This is ridiculous.”

It was ridiculous, but not in the way Trump intended. The ridiculous part was him standing there wailing about it.
He suggested the hotel turned off the AC to save money. (It didn’t. The main ballroom’s air conditioning was set at 63 degrees. “We did have it set as low as it could possibly go,” said Michael Quonce, the hotel’s public relations manager. “It was running at 99 percent efficiency.”)

Trump’s comments were chintzy, low-rent, third-rate and wholly unbecoming for a major party presidential nominee. But they are pure Trump, full of narcissistic bullying, worrying about his own comfort, picking on an entity that can’t pick back.

For the record, the hotel doors were open for two hours before he began speaking, to let in thousands of Trumpeteers (some were shunted off to an overflow ballroom). People were packed in the main ballroom like sardines. Trump was standing under stage lighting. What does he expect? You don’t get meat-locker temps under those circumstances.

And part of it was Trump’s own fault. The temps in the room probably went up 10 degrees after he opened his mouth. (OK, just kidding on that one.)

Around this country in recent weeks, cops have been assassinated in Dallas. Black men have been shot to death by police for little apparent reason. A crazy man with a gun slaughtered patrons of a gay bar in Florida.

And the Republican presidential nominee is worrying about a warm room in Western Virginia in the middle of the summer? Puh-lease. There are more important things he ought to focus his scattered thoughts on.

Presidential campaigns are long, arduous and frequently nasty. By circumstance of the calendar, part of them happen in the summer, when temperatures can get hot. The rhetoric can get hot, too.

What’s that old expression? The one that begins, “If you can’t stand the heat ...”

If Donald Trump can’t stand the heat of a Hotel Roanoke ballroom in July, perhaps he’s not cut out for the rigors of the campaign to come.

Maybe he ought to get out now, and go find some place to cool down. 

Heat flashes.   I thought 70 was too old for menopause.
 

I also thought it was too old act like a sniveling baby, so what do I know?

[mlizzy]

Maybe it was his blood pressure. He seems to be a bit red, not his usual cheeto orange.

Yes, not good! Here is Trump from Meet the Press on Sunday. Maybe he was in a hurry; tossed the can tan, built a quick fire, and bent over it. His health or Hillary's; which will fail first?

We had the opportunity to vote for Bobby Jindal, a self-described "gym rat," who still has, I believe, a 29-inch waist. [That's w-a-i-s-t this time, not waste.]


Donald Trump on Meet the Press, 7-24-16.

[ABX]

Heat flashes.   I thought 70 was too old for menopause.
 

I also thought it was too old act like a sniveling baby, so what do I know?

Manopause can happen at any time and usually has symptoms one's entire life, caused by being a spoiled little b****.

[Suppressed]

I know the heat index was at least 100, but I tend to shut it out when the weather people go there (and they won't shut up about it, lol).   The temps are bad enough; stop making it worse!   

The humidity's been so bad lately, you need one of these to get anywhere...

[Suppressed]

Yes, not good! Here is Trump from Meet the Press on Sunday. Maybe he was in a hurry; tossed the can tan, built a quick fire, and bent over it. His health or Hillary's; which will fail first?

We had the opportunity to vote for Bobby Jindal, a self-described "gym rat," who still has, I believe, a 29-inch waist. [That's w-a-i-s-t this time, not waste.]


Donald Trump on Meet the Press, 7-24-16.

He looks like an orange raccoon.

[bolobaby]

Man... I *literally* came to this thread hoping to see this: