Posted on 11/10/2015 7:39:49 AM PST by Enlightened1
At a campaign event in Springfield, Illinois, Donald Trump suggested a boycott of coffee giant Starbucks over the design of its Christmas coffee cups. The all-red design has angered religious conservatives who see it as part of an effort to undermine the meaning of Christmas.
"Starbucks is taking merry Christmas off [their cups] no more merry Christmas," Trump said.
"If I become president, we'll all be saying merry Christmas again," the candidate said to applause.
Trump told a raucous crowd, "Maybe we should boycott Starbucks. I don't know."
The real estate mogul also attacked his main rival, Ben Carson.
"This is a strange election, isn't it?", he said. "If you try and hit your mother over the head with a hammer, your poll numbers go up."
Carson has faced a barrage of questions in recent days over claims about his allegedly violent past.
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There may be valid reasons to boycott Starbucks but this isn’t one of them. Some reindeer on a cup versus a plain red cup is not controversial. Not as if Starbucks ever had a manger scene.
Trivial issue. No one cares, or cares very much. Starbucks is a know latter-liberal quantity.
“I have one of the most successful Starbucks, in Trump Tower. Maybe we should boycott Starbucks? I don’t know. Seriously, I don’t care. That’s the end of that lease, but who cares?”
Trump told a crowd in Springfield, Illinois, on Monday. “If I become president, we’re all going to be saying Merry Christmas again, that I can tell you. That I can tell you.”
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Seems NOBODY is objecting to the cups.
Seems everybody wants to point fingers at & insult someone for objecting to Starbucks’ cup design, so they’re jumping on the bandwagon - even though nobody is objecting.
Just because an idea’s time has come doesn’t mean there’s a rational objective sane basis for it.
Who is dumb enough to buy their coffee in the first place?
There are bigger fish to fry. Red cups at Starbucks aren’t worth the attention.
The change from a non-Christian decoration last year, and the year before, and the year before, etc. to a non-Christian decoration this year has not “angered religious conservatives.”
It got one internet troll to post a video about how angry Christians should be about the cup change and then the anti-Christian media jumped all over it saying how Christians were angry about it.
Yes, there were a few perpetually offended Christians who grasp at any hint of offensiveness to fuel their self-righteous day who fell for the trolling, but for the most part it was used as a strawman issue for anti-Christian groups and individuals to mock the sensitivity issues of Christians as a whole.
Trump got trolled. It happens to everyone on occasion. Just hope he realizes it and drops the subject.
Definite first world problem.
Excellent summary and spot on.
I’m so sick of everybody being offended about everything all the time!!!!!
Same here.
I heard that DD will put a Christmas wreath on theirs on the radio news report this morning.
I find it valid because quite frankly I’m sick of the political correct nonsense.
Starbucks is doing this in order not to offend non-Christians. This is while Christians are being butchered in Syria by ISIS.
I’m done with Starbucks unless they change their position.
Actually I forgot I’ve been boycotting them since the CEO when on a rant against the 2nd Amendment.
That’s fine he does not want any guns in his stores. That’s his business, but I’m not going there. They must reverse these two positions first, before I step back into another Starbucks.
I’m sick of this Anti-American businesses.
Anyone but Starbucks. There are plenty of great coffee and coffee shops.
I tend to believe him. However Obama and the left have so freaked out this nation it might be a much bigger task than The Donald suspects. We shall see.
While eating at a restaurant last weekend, the wife and I were looking out the window. Across the street in a small strip mall was a Starbucks. The line of cars that drove into their drive-up lane was endless. It lasted the length of our meal.
I was sort of shocked. I had no idea SBs was that popular in our area.
Starbucks got run over by a reindeer...
General Trump: Have you ever seen a communist drink coffee in a red cup in Starbucks?
Group Capt. Lionel Mandrake: No, can’t say that I have.
General Trump: I can assure you that it has happened and will happen, Mandrake. Women uh... women sense my power and they seek the life essence. I, uh... I do not avoid women, Mandrake.
Group Capt. Lionel Mandrake: Hmmmm.
General Trump: But I... I do deny them my essence.
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