Posted on 06/02/2016 10:59:20 AM PDT by McGruff
Presumptive Republican nominee Donald Trump is responding to the PGA moving the 2017 World Golf Championship to Mexico instead of holding it at Trump Doral in Miami.
“They move the World Golf Championships from Miami to Mexico City,” Trump commented. “They moved the PGA Tour, moved the World Golf Championships from Miami, where they’re furious to Mexico City.”
“If I become your president, this stuff is all going to stop,” Trump added. He went on to criticize the U.S. economy for being taken advantage of by Mexico.
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There’s also the pollution factor. Mexico City air quality is terrible. The golfers will NOT be happy to be breathing that.
I wonder how popular golf is in Mexico City and what kind of sponsors does the PGA think they they're going get down there?
They better have their smog masks on at all times. Flying into Mexico City you finally see the ground at about 900 feet.
PGA people have their undies in a tightwad.
Trump knows he has mo authority to stop it, but the bully pulpit is very bully...
Trump is right on target, of course:
The recent kidnapping of Mexican soccer star Alan Pulido by relative, Osvaldo Velazquez, comes to mind. Prosecutors say Velazquez is a member of a criminal gang linked to drug trafficking, kidnappings and extortion.
The U.S. State Department has issued a travel warning to all Americans planning on going to Mexico – renewing an expired travel ban issued in May of last year – as the latest figures show the number of murdered U.S. citizens south of the border has gone up.
The number of American citizens murdered in Mexico rose from 81 in 2013 to 100 in 2014, according to the U.S. government. Meantime, the FBI tells Fox News Latino, 241 Americans have been kidnapped in Mexico since 2013 through 2015; 73 Americans were kidnapped in Mexico in 2015 alone.
Business Insider published in 2013 a list of the “Top 20 countries where people get kidnapped the most,” which Mexico, of course, topped the list.
Yep, that "kidnapping insurance" statement sure sounds like he's got some plans to send some thugs down there to abscond with Phil Mickelson..........Good choice tho, he should bring in some big cash in ransom money.
I view this as an Anti-American move. I am disassociating with the PGA and will no longer support the PGA. I see this as partisan politics at its rawest. Why didn’t they move some where where the economy of THIS country benefits. Mexico is highly unstable and dangerous for Americans who are kidnapped for ransom frequently. If you don’t think a bunch of rich golf bums would be target rich for drug lords you have another thing coming. Good luck with that.
Plus Mexico City is very high altitude. makes the pollution exasperated effect.
...and they'd better bring in their own water....LOL!
You’d have to be nuts to go to Mexico.
I’m cheering for the amoebas.
If they are incorporated in the USA they should be penalized via punitive taxes. If retard Republicans are against that, then We The People need to vote those retard bastards out.
Back around 2004 my company built a stamping plant in Hermosillo and a couple of managers and shop supervisors from our Detroit plant were transferred there.
They and their families were all housed in a gated community with armed security guards and had an armed security guard with them whenever they were outside the compound or the plant.......
Mexico and all of Central America (with the exception of maybe Belize) have been taken over by the drug cartels.......
I have a number of stories about my trips to Honduras that I'll save for another time.......
‘Hope They Have Kidnapping Insurance’
LOL!
Hilarious!
Apparently he learned well from the current Tyrant in Chief. There’s nothing you can’t do with an EO and the stroke of a pen. Precedent has been set.
My BIL, a doctor here in S.E. Michigan, is from Honduras and led by him, the rest of the family have taken many vacations to Honduras over the years.
My BIL is almost 80 and all his brothers and their wives have long since died, leaving him only with two living nieces, only one of which had 4 daughters and one son. (his only two nephews have both died)......
Three daughters of the niece have been fortunate enough to have found three Christian men (all friends) in New Jersey who have married them and have been living happily ever since.
The one son of the niece in Honduras disappeared about 5 years ago, and nothing was heard from or about him ever since.
The only story given was that David was hanging out with several brothers who came from a rich family and those brothers always traveled with an armed security guard.
On the last day David was seen, he had received a call from his friends stating they were meeting a couple from Mexico in order to turn over the keys to a house they were going to rent out. After arrival at the rental house, a van pulled up and a number of armed individuals jumped out and ordered David, his two friends and the Mexican couple into the van and they were never seen again..........This was the story the armed security guard gave to the local authorities.
With that being said, my BIL is finally convinced that not only were the two friends of David involved in drug trafficking but that David may have been as well.
So what does all this mean?
While my BIL and sister still consider the Bay Islands off the coast of Honduras as a frequent vacation spot, he will never set foot in Honduras again due to the imminent danger of kidnappings by the out of control drug cartels..........
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