New York – What’s in a name? For three New York City apartment buildings, it’s no longer “Trump.”
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Workers pried 3-foot-high gold letters spelling “Trump Place” off the buildings Wednesday.
In some places, a shadow of the old name still lingered. The workers scraped and power-washed the surface where the letters had been.
New signage now displays the buildings’ street addresses.
Hundreds of residents had signed a petition to remove the name after the release of a recording of Donald Trump boasting about kissing women without their consent.
The Chicago-based company that bought the buildings in 2005 says the goal was a “neutral building identity.” Equity Residential chairman Sam Zell tells The New York Times the petition signed by tenants had “no role” in the decision.
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They can hang the lettering on the white house.
This is stupid. What a waste of resources to remove a perfectly good name from a building.
As bad as Trump is, this is not good news. Literally. This is bad reporting, a story that doesn’t matter to most people.
I wouldn’t mind living in a building with a name on it in letters even if I didn’t like that person.
If only I could remove those letters with my own hands. I hate that guy.
What chutzpah! Just because the man likes women he can’t have his name on his own building?
This will go down in history with the tearing down of the Berlin wall.
This is great. Less Trump in New York!
There is no reason a person who brags about assaulting women should have his name there just for being rich.
Donald Trump is the president-elect. If he is worthy of being president, he can have his name on a building.
I don’t care if he is a criminal, if the building is his, his name goes on it.
Women are people, not objects, and a building should be named by its peole.
Across the pond, Trump means to pass gas.
Seriously? You stood by him through the birther movement and insulting John McCain, but when he brags about assaulting women, you change your name?
That rich old grandpa.
Oh em gee. Trump is the oldest pres. Just wait for him to quit.
I’m waiting for Trump tower to become Maples Tower.
Donald John Trump is the bestestest candidatte. He will mayk America grate agen. I am so prowd of America for electing the best candidatte.
I have a chicken in my freezer, but it’s still frozen. I wonder how long it will take to defrost.
Love is not a victory march.
I wrote a song about him. It goes:
La la la la Donald Trump
La L La LA LA Donald Trump
Ohh ohhh, Donald Trump
Baby, I’m so glad we voted
Donald Trump!
Yeahh.
Donald Trump watches movies that promote eating lobster. Lobster is an abomination.
We can’t have a man as president if he’s not good enough to have his name on a building.
America’s greatest shame.
I hope they are reusing the letters or at least recycling them. What a waste.
All I want is to see Donald Trump perform a guitar solo.
What the lego is a “neutral building identity”?
Going from branded to generic is a fashion no-no.
Today is gonna be the day that every cat is a camel.
Trump has a heart of gold nothing will break it. Long live the king! all you sore losers go back to sleep for 4-8 years and wake up in a better mode. He is my president!!!!!
Sure losers those democrats