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Online Pranksters Mock Trump's $149 Christmas Ornament, Rename Trump Tower on Google Maps (yahoo.com)

An anonymous reader quotes a Digital Trends story about a suspicious malfunction on Google Maps: At some point yesterday, Donald Trump's Fifth Avenue home was given a rather unceremonious rechristening, and a search for "Trump Tower" revealed a pin for "Dump Tower" instead. It was rather tricky to find for some, and required zooming in on the building itself at just the right angle (which is perhaps how the culprit got away with the stunt in the first place). At a separate angle, someone else (or perhaps the same person) transliterated the skyscraper's name in Russian Cyrillic, perhaps meant to be a jab at Trump's alleged ties to President Vladimir Putin and company... While the team [at Google Maps] managed to put out this first fire, another quickly arose to take its place (as is often the case on the internet), and later in the day on Saturday, Trump International Hotel and Tower in Columbus Circle was renamed Dump International Hotel and Tower. Meanwhile, another anonymous reader writes: Earlier this week Donald Trump emailed his supporters selling a $149 collectible "Make America Great Again" Christmas ornament finished with 14k gold, to raise money for both his campaign and the Republican party. But Yahoo News reports that it's now getting some suspicious negative (and politically-charged) reviews on its page on Amazon. ("One Star. "It tried to put my nativity figures into an internment camp.") And another reviewer even wrote a satirical story about how their family decided on the ornament for the tree. "During our family meeting we overwhelmingly chose the other ornament but somehow we still ended up with this one. We're not sure what happened."

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  1. Can you feel the stupid flowing? by Charcharodon · · Score: 0, Troll

    Oooooo, sick bern.

    Get it? Bern. As in Bernie Sanders. Oh that's right he lost, and then Hillary lost, but not for lack of cheating....er I mean trying.
    Can we kick her, along with anyone who committed voter fraud on her behalf, out of the country if the recount comes up with her still loosing?

    A few million illegal immigrants can stay in their place if they go. (If they don't go it means they hate all Mexicans.)

  2. Re:Good to see mocking the President back in fashi by Jason+Levine · · Score: 0, Troll

    At least until Trump opens up the libel laws (or passes new ones since Federal libel laws don't exist). Then, mocking the President will simply be illegal.

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  3. Re:Good to see mocking the President back in fashi by DogDude · · Score: 1, Troll

    Oh, please. Don't pretend that mocking Obama and mocking Trump are anywhere near the same thing. That's stupid. But then again, voting for Trump is about as stupid as you can get, so I'm not all that surprised that you don't get it.

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  4. Re: Good to see mocking the President back in fash by Anonymous Coward · · Score: 0, Troll

    The parent post is another example of the left resorting to personal attacks. As a note to the parent post, if you are going to call someone stupid, you should end your sentences with a grammatically correct period.

  5. Re:Good to see mocking the President back in fashi by Anonymous Coward · · Score: 0, Troll

    It's called one is black the other is white.

    Fixed that for you. Also again the left resorting to personal attracts. Let me lay it out to you because you're too stupid to under stand it. If it was no okay to refer to black people as monkeys in the past. It's also not okay to refer to any one as a monkey in the present.

    Also black people weren't the only people lynched by mobs in the past.

    Again the left resort to personal attacks when they have no valid arguments.