Before he was president, Donald Trump bought an estate in West Palm Beach, Florida. He put up a 80 foot flag pole and flew a 375 sq ft US flag on it. The City Council told him that he could only have a 30 foot pole but he refused to take it down. They told him they would fine him $1250 a day until he took it down. He said fine, that’s a chump change. When the fine reached $120,000 he went to the the city council and made a deal. He would lower the flag to a 50 foot pole if he could donate the $120,000 to the Veterans Affairs, to which they agreed. He took 80 foot pole down and a landscape company came in and build a 30 foot hill where the pole was and put up a 50 foot pole.
That’s why we love our President.
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Canny (clever) Scot; he waited till the fine was substantial to them, and made em an offer they couldn’t refuse.
If they turned it down, he could then say “look, these guys turned down an opportunity to donate to the veterans”.
Then, being a builder, he researched from where the height was measured, and finding it was measured from the “ground” made the ground 30 feet high.
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The link just below that story — t.me/jsolomonReports — goes to a Telegram page that must be fake, as the real John Solomon is a respected reporter who wouldn’t print a bunch of false information like that. Please see below :)
Trump did have a dispute with the Palm Beach Town Council in 2006-2007 concerning his flag/flagpole but...Trump’s estate is in Palm Beach, not “West Palm Beach”. In the eventual settlement Trump did not agree to a “50 foot pole” nor to donate the “$120,000” in fines.
Trump also did not “build a 30 foot hill where the pole was and put up a 50 foot pole.” (please see photo of the flagpole at the Fox News twitter link below, and also the Palm Beach Daily News story)
https://twitter.com/foxnews/status/986879573592887296
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