Posted on 11/11/2015 8:33:38 PM PST by BlackFemaleArmyColonel
Billionaire 2016 GOP presidential candidate Donald Trump waded into coffee giant Starbucks' alleged war on Christmas Monday when he suggested a boycott of the company over its controversial red holiday cups, but the company says there is no war.
"Did you read about Starbucks?" Trump asked a crowd of about 10,200 during a rally at a convention center in Springfield, Illinois, on Monday evening.
"No more 'Merry Christmas' at Starbucks. No more," he said as the crowd booed disapprovingly at his comments. "I wouldn't buy. Hey look, I'm speaking against myself. I have one of the most successful Starbucks in Trump Tower," he continued. "Maybe we should boycott Starbucks, I don't know. Seriously," he added to cheers. "I don't care. By the way: That's the end of that lease. But who cares? Who cares? Who cares?!"
Trump then hit the crowd with this promise: "If I become president, we're all going to be saying 'Merry Christmas' again. That I can tell you. That I can tell you! Unbelievable."
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"For which of you, desiring to build a tower (stand strong), doesn't first sit down and count the cost, to see if he has enough to complete it?" (Luke 14:28)
I never liked Starbucks anyway.
Absolutely! I never use them. Who would want to fund them or what they stand for?
There is more to this Starbucks, we just have to dig some to find out...
People are going in to Starbucks and when ask their name, they are saying Merry Christmas........I love it.
I do not patronize Starbucks.
Their coffee tastes bad, but their mocha frappacino is excellent.
Horrible coffee...McDonald’s has a better cup for less. Then again I make it at home in the drip for pennies and it tastes better than both.
Great!
I don’t really care about the cups, but I find their response irritating. I still don’t care, but they would do better to just say nothing rather than blather on about other religions. Christmas is tied to Christianity whether they or anyone else likes it or not. It is just a fact. To deny it is to be ungrateful for the windfall it brings them every year. It’s rude.
And I still don’t care about the cups being plain red.
Why did they put a pic of Harry Reid on the cup?
Wow.
0vomit’s favorite!
Our children are becoming lost. Idiot liberal elites like the Starbucks fools are taking down the cultural road signs.
Fools... Trump has this one right... We’re going to start saying Merry Christmas...
I never go to Suckbucks.
I waited till today and told my daughter why I don’t go to starcrap.I told her that they are commie libs and support abortion.She said that’s the last time she ever goes there again.I waited till now.
You know, you're right about that. Trump rarely disappoints.
Trump/Cruz 2016
Trump/West 2016
(take your pick)
Great summary.
A red cup hates Jesus. Check.
I hope this is the semi facetious side of Donald. Like Laz, he pushes the absurd for sake of illustration, not anything else.
Starbucks has taken down the signs to the point where it doesn’t have any Christian events on its calendars...
OOOOOPS! The one in the office tower where I work is now selling Advent calendars.
Battles need to be chosen wisely. If our number isn’t to be known as “the people who will bitch and moan at almost anything” that is.
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