Posted on 04/22/2018 11:45:35 AM PDT by BBell
Twitter was incensed Saturday after Donald Trump used Barbara Bush’s funeral as an opportunity to tout his private business in a tweet, dubbing his Mar-a-Lago golf resort the “Southern White House.”
Trump noted that he would be watching Bush’s funeral — on TV — at his golf resort.
The latest “southern” title of Trump’s private “White House” was particularly galling to many who called it a “dog whistle” to racists. Trump used to refer to Mar-a-Lago as the “Winter White House.” The “Southern White House” was where Confederate president Jefferson Davis lived during the Civil War.
Angry tweets also pointed out that it’s the only “White House” where taxpayers have to either pay a $200,000 membership fee to visit it or know a member who can afford those fees to invite them to visit.
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The Left has a pathological hatred of the South.
Guess they’re not old enough to remember President Nixon calling his place in Key Biscayne the southern white house.
I’ve never heard it.
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WAYYYY South!!!!!!
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Dick G aka: Gunny G!
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