All posts tagged "Doral"

A famed Florida restaurant whose owner pledged loyalty to Donald Trump is now struggling with empty tables as the president’s immigration crackdown keeps customers away, The Bulwark reported Friday.

“People are scared to come out and visit. When we make specials, sometimes we have to throw them out because they go bad,” an employee of El Arepazo told The Bulwark’s Adrian Carrasquillo, estimating a roughly 80% drop in business.

Just seven months ago, owner Maximo Alvarez welcomed Trump to the restaurant in Doral — home of the MAGA leader’s Trump National Doral Miami resort — with open arms, telling him, “I just want to be loyal to you.”...

Trump's giant gold statue of himself at his Doral Golf Club in Miami was met with online disgust by people who couldn't believe that anyone would want or applaud such a vanity project.

"What's wrong with people," wrote journalist James Surowiecki on X, reacting to video of the statue and a photo of a pastor dedicating it in Trump's honor.

Even Saddam didn't do this s---," noted writer and podcast host Jim Stewartson, referring to Iraqi dictator Saddam Hussein. "He is so far gone." ...

A Deutsche Bank executive testified in Donald Trump’s civil fraud trial that she tried to harpoon the real estate tycoon, financially speaking, according to reports.

Managing director Rosemary Vrablic detailed her efforts to secure a deal with a “very high net-worth individual,” the former President, the Messenger reports.

“She knew from the outset that Trump was a big catch,” said MSNBC legal analyst Lisa Rubin on X, “telling two colleagues in an email that they were ‘whale hunting.’”...