Protesters disrupt Donald Trump speech at NYC luncheon
For Trump, the hostile reactions his comments had sparked could prove to be a major setback for several iconic projects he is now associated with, particularly with Damac Properties.
The Trump golf club in Dubai is scheduled for completion next year. Trump’s daughter Ivanka was pictured separately, and that has also been removed.
Another company that Trump has been working with is real estate giant DAMAC Properties, which will develop two golf courses outside Dubai.
A spokesperson for Damac declined to provide any details as to what led to the removal of the image.
The image and name of American presidential hopeful Donald Trump was gone on Friday from much of a Dubai golf course and housing development amid the uproar over his comments about banning Muslims from travelling to the United States.
Trump was tossed from a respected business network in Scotland, where the billionaire says he invested more than $300 million in golf courses and other developments.
The Trump Towers in Istanbul are not owned by Trump himself but use his brand name under a licensing arrangement.
An online petition calling for Mr Trump to be banned entry to the United Kingdom has reached more than 430,000 signatures.
In the current market situation, when luxury properties have not been flying off the shelves, they may not find too many will buyers.
So in some disgusting way, she said, his brand, and therefore, his business, is benefitting from Trump’s comments.
Hoping to add to the pressure, The New York Times on December 11 published an editorial that read, in part, that the Trump name increasingly stands for “bigotry and racism”. “They saw those two animals (in San Bernardino) last week go out and shoot people”.
Mr Johnson joked: “I would invite him to come and see the whole of London and take him round the city, except that I wouldn’t want to expose Londoners to any unnecessary risk of meeting Donald Trump”.
“The comments are very unfortunate because they have the potential to dampen foreign trade”, said Gordon Gray, executive vice president of the National-U.S. Arab Chamber of Commerce.
Chanting “Dump Trump” and “refugees welcome”, the protesters castigated Trump’s comments.
“When we know Islamophobia is on the rise, and when he says Muslims shouldn’t be allowed in the United States – that is completely the narrative we are trying to avoid”. Many Muslim friends of mine are in agreement with me.
There is evidence the group has been targeting the site since at least Wednesday, when it posted a YouTube video warning against Trump’s plan to halt the immigration of Muslims into the U.S. “Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu rejects Donald Trump’s recent remarks about Muslims”, his office wrote.