A Westport travel designer is spearheading a boycott of Donald Trump’s owned and operated hotels around the world.
Westporter Susan Farewell (in front of Old City of Istanbul, Turkey): “We are outraged by Trump’s denigration of women.” (CLICK TO ENLARGE) Contributed photo
The boycott is in response to the presidential candidate’s controversial comments about Hillary Clinton being “schlonged.”
“We are outraged by Trump’s denigration of women,” said Susan Farewell, founder and owner of Farewell Travels. “We are demonstrating our disapproval in the language Trump knows best: through his wallet.”
The anti-Trump campaign is building through social media and is receiving support from travel professionals around the world, from Hawaii to Turkey, Farewell said.
“We are showing our outrage over Trump’s unacceptably sexist comments by booking our clients in hotels not affiliated with Trump.”
She said it is too soon to gauge the financial impact of the boycott on the Trump properties, but added she is encouraged. And she is not worried about the effect on her agency in terms of any lost revenue.
“Most of my clients agree with me that the real estate magnate is out of control,” Farewell said. “It’s not hard to persuade them to stay somewhere else.”
Trump took to Twitter today to defend using the word “schlonged” to describe Hillary Clinton’s primary loss in 2008, saying the word is “not vulgar.”
“Once again, #MSM is dishonest. ‘Schlonged’ is not vulgar. When I said Hillary got ‘schlonged’ that meant beaten badly,” he said in one tweet.
He then attacked the mainstream media, MSM for short, for being unfair to him.
“For those on TV defending my use of the word ‘schlonged,’ bc #MSM is giving it false meaning-tell them it means beaten badly. Dishonest #MSM,” he said.
Thank you, Susan, for taking some action against this un -American charlatan who would trash the Constitution, trample the disadvantaged and ride to power on the back of bigotry.