Shit hits fan at Trumpā€™s ā€˜shitholeā€™ hotels

January 18, 2018
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Multimedia artist Robin Bell projected the word ā€œSHITHOLEā€ ā€” with lots of poop emojis ā€” onto Trumpā€™s Washington, DC, hotel on January 13.

Trump properties around the world are facing blowback after US President Donald Trumpā€™s racist comments about why the US accepts migrants from ā€œshithole countriesā€ to members of Congress on January 11.

said that in response, thousands of users of Yelp, a site that crowd-sources reviews of business, are rating Trump properties ā€” leaving oneā€“star reviews and describing the facilities as shitholes. The effort caused the luxury Trump International Hotel in Washington, DC, to drop to a twoā€“star rating, down from its average of four-to-five stars.

Multimedia artist Robin Bell, of Bell Visuals, also projected the word ā€œSHITHOLEā€ ā€” with lots of poop emojis ā€” onto Trumpā€™s Washington, DC, hotel on January 13.

Also projected onto the building were the phrases: ā€œPay Trump Bribes Hereā€, ā€œEmoluments Welcomeā€, ā€œWe are all Responsible to Stand Up and End White Supremacyā€, "The President of the United States is a Known Racist and a Nazi Sympathizerā€, ā€œThis is Not a Drillā€ and ā€œ#RESISTā€.

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