Donald Trump’s increasingly xenophobic and inflammatory comments against Muslims just cost him a chunk of change in the Middle East.
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A 2014 post (above) on DAMAC’s Facebook page advertised the new complex.
A billboard showing Trump golfing was removed on Friday from the Damac Properties’ Akoya development.
The Gulf Cooperation Council on Thursday, after a meeting of its members’ leaders, said, “The Supreme Council expressed its deep concern at the increase of hostile, racist and inhumane rhetoric against refugees in general and Muslims in particular”.
It is not the first time that Trump’s comments during his presidential bid have hurt his business interests.
Trump’s comments were created to capitalise on a shooting by a Muslim couple said to have become radicalised in San Bernardino, California, which killed 14 people.
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Gold letters spelling out “Trump International Gold Club”, affixed to a landscaped stone wall at the entrance to the project site, were also removed later in the day, according to the Reuters photographer.
Others from the Middle East business community have also expressed dismay with Trump’s remarks. 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.
Tengku Adnan Tengku Mansor, secretary-general of the United Malays National Organisation, the biggest political party in Malaysia where Muslims make up 60 percent of the population, expressed concern that Trump would use issues of faith to gain political mileage.
New York City Council Speaker Melissa Mark-Viverito (center), speaks during an interfaith rally at New York’s City Hall in response to Republican presidential candidate Donald Trump’s call to block Muslims from entering the United States, Wednesday, Dec. 9, 2015, in New York.
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A report from the Arabian Business said that retail giant Landmark Group has sparked a Muslim boycott of sorts by ceasing its sales of the presidential candidate’s products in its 160 stores across Libya and Pakistan. 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.
