Republican presidential candidate Donald Trump speaks to the crowd at a Pearl Harbor Day Rally at the U.S.S. Yorktown December 7, 2015 in Mt. Pleasant, South Carolina.
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CEO Sachin Mundhwa told Quartz that he made the decision “in light of the recent statements made by the presidential candidate”, because his company “values and respects the sentiments of all its customers”.
Donald Trump’s name and likeness have been removed from billboards and imagery promoting a forthcoming golf course his company will manage in the United Arab Emirates.
The move comes as Dubai-based Landmark Group pulled all Trump home decor products at its 180 Lifestyle stores. His PRVT “mansions” near his golf course in Dubai sell for $1.8 million each not clear about the amount of money goes to Trump.
Trump is also set to run another golf course, designed by Tiger Woods, on a separate Damac-owned development, Akoya Oxygen, called Trump World Golf Club Dubai.
“We can not comment on the situation”, said Raed Gerges, vice president of communications for Damac.
Meanwhile, in an interview with CNN, Emirati billionaire Khalaf al-Habtoor, who once held the contract to build a later-canceled Trump International hotel and tower in Dubai, branded his former business associate “the biggest enemy of Islam”.
A billboard showing Trump golfing had been at the Damac Properties’ Akoya development, as well as an image of Trump’s daughter Ivanka.
According to Trump’s website, he has done more business partnerships with Muslim-majority countries, such as Turkey, and Indonesia that has the largest Muslim population in the world.
Finance minister George Osborne told lawmakers that Trump’s “nonsense” views “fly in the face of the founding principles of the United States”. Al Habtoor expressed to the media that if Trump were to come to his office, he would not even allow him inside, he does not trust him. “It is a subject they say everybody else is afraid to bring up”. “What somebody like a Trump is trying to do is to divide us up”, Sanders said.
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By Thursday, the image had gone, a Reuters photographer said. “He’s going to be flying to the Middle East but his business partners aren’t going to be allowed to enter the United States?” “I’ve not yet met anyone who agrees with him”.
