Posted on 02/20/2021 12:11:39 PM PST by Kaslin
We learned last month that New York City Mayor Bill de Blasio was cooking up a plan to cancel all of the Trump organization’s contracts with the city. Those contracts involve the operation of a golf course, the carousel in Central Park and two skating rinks. The contracts were set to expire in April anyway, but apparently, the city’s showboating mayor couldn’t wait that long. It was just announced that de Blasio wants the Trump-owned operations shut down and moved out by February 26. (In one week.) That means that operations will end tomorrow to give them time to pack everything up. So any children showing up to go skating this week will find the rinks closed for business. (NY Post)
Skaters arriving at Central Park’s two ice rinks are in for a cold awakening next week — the rinks, which are both managed by the Trump Organization, are being shuttered by City Hall to punish the former president for the deadly Jan. 6 Capitol riot, The Post has learned.The Trump Organization says its last day of operating the iconic Wollman Rink and the smaller Lasker Rink at the park’s northern end will be Sunday.
The rink contracts had been set to expire in April, but Mayor de Blasio has moved to ice Trump out a month early, effective Feb. 26.
This pathetic move by de Blasio is being done for partisan political reasons and he’s not even trying to hide it. One of his spokespeople said three weeks ago that “Trump has been impeached from operating the ice rink.”
Like a bad dart player who always misses the bullseye, Bill de Blasio has misfired yet again and hit the wrong target. He’s not doing all that much “punishing” of the Trump organization because they were going to be out in less than ten weeks anyway. But in his haste to generate another headline as a hero of the #RESISTANCE, the Mayor shut down the skating operations without having anyone lined up to take over and run them. So the rest of the skating season in Central Park has been “canceled” rather than Donald Trump.
As we discussed here when Bill’s plan was originally announced, Hizzoner has probably set the city up for some legal and financial problems while simultaneously icing out anyone who enjoys skating. Eric Trump had already made it clear that he would be going to court if de Blasio made good on his threat and terminated the contract early.
The Mayor claims that the contracts contain a provision allowing for early cancellation if the contractor is found to be engaged in “illegal activity.” The entire basis for his claim of illegal activity is the January 6 riot on Capitol Hill. But Donald Trump hasn’t been convicted of any crime related to that, nor even charged in a court of law. (Impeachment doesn’t count and he wasn’t convicted in that “court” either.) On top of that, Trump doesn’t personally operate the division of the company that runs the skating rinks. His son does.
The bottom line is that if Eric Trump takes the city to court and wins, not only will families not have anywhere to skate in the park, but the city’s taxpayers will take it on the chin for an expensive breach of contract lawsuit. The contracts for the Trump organization’s operations in the park are estimated to be worth in excess of $40 million. As if the city isn’t having enough financial difficulties as it is.
Bill de Blasio is a petty, vindictive person who is on his way out the door because of term limits. But he apparently couldn’t finish out his time in office without making a fool of himself yet again.
Somebody ping me a reminder to see what those places look like a year from now.
It will end up a trashy,HUD housing version of a skating rink..So dangerous,no one but the gangs will go there....
Don’t you have to have passed Middle School (or Junior High) in order to be a big city Mayor?
Don’t you have to have passed Middle School (or Junior High) in order to be a big city Mayor?
Just like what happened to Ebbett’s Field and the Polo Grounds. They were replaced with gleaming state of the art housing projects.
Ever since Trump took over the fixing of the Wolman Rink from NYC and finished the job under budget and on time they have despised him for the fools he made of them all.
Read about it here.
The party of hate.
What the hell difference does it make EVERYTHING in NY is shut down there are NO PEOPLE there to use it anyway!!!
No,I mean it will stay a skating rink ,just a trashy and dangerous one..Years ago,blacks made a big to do over a golf course that was privately owned in NYC and they wanted the city to buy it and open it to the public...Wellll,the city did and it’s trashy and dangerous today....
Petty liberal bullies.
The rink was closed in 1980 for an announced 2 1/2 years of renovations. When the work was not completed by 1986, Donald Trump persuaded Mayor Ed Koch to let him complete the work and he completed the renovations in three months to have it open by the end of the year. Koch initially objected to the proposal but public pressure prompted him to reverse his position.Wollman rink in the movies.
“...being shuttered by City Hall to punish the former president for the deadly Jan. 6 Capitol riot, The Post has learned.”
Interesting. The City of New York is cancelling a contract with a person in punishment for a crime he did not commit by congressional forum and was not charged for in the civilian world? We can say slander, illegal rescission of contract, fraud, verbal assault (abuse), and a couple of other legal terms that would require a long explanation. Maybe the GOP should start a Trump fund for legal expenses. After all, they are half the problem.
wy69
He’s punishing New Yorkers who were so evil they used ice
rinks managed by Orange Man.
I believe that one of those rinks wouldn’t even be there if
it weren’t for that same Orange Man.
Six years ago, they loved Trump.
He went to their social events. They went to his. They
knew him very well.
Now he’s evil. Guess they were too. Now they are the ones
left being evil, while Trump moves on.
What a petty jackass..between this and killing off the elderly who would want to live in New York
Bookmark
It may be aimed at hurting Trump but who is hardest hit by this?
This wacko is the dumbest Mayor in the country.
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