A view shows the signboard after the removal of the Trump International Golf Club portion at the AKOYA by DAMAC development in Dubai December 10, 2015.
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Also, pieces of letters that appeared to spell out Trump’s name had been pulled down from a stone wall, the letters left lying on the sandy ground.
Trump on Monday called for “a total and complete shutdown of Muslims entering the United States” because of terrorism perpetrated by radical Muslims, including a married couple who fatally shot 14 people and wounded 21 others in San Bernardino, Calif., last week.
Damac also previously announced plans for a Trump World Golf Club, at another property called Akoya Oxygen. A similar billboard featuring Trump’s daughter Ivanka, a vice-president for the Trump Organization, was also been removed. The sign, outside a sales office at the site, originally had Trump’s name in lettering on a stone wall. Trump was tossed from a respected business network in Scotland, where the billionaire says he invested more than $300 million in golf courses and other developments.
The Middle East isn’t the only spot where Trump’s golf courses are feeling the heat.
Late Thursday, Bulent Kural, the general manager of Trump Towers in Istanbul, said his company “regrets and condemns” Trump’s call to ban Muslims from entering the U.S.
Lifestyle chief executive Sachin Mundhwa said: ‘In light of the recent statements made by the presidential candidate in the United States media, we have suspended sale of all products from the Trump Home decor range’.
Trump had been facing mounting pressure from influential figures in the Middle East, one of which was the Arabian Business publication that published an op-ed on Tuesday titled “Time for Gulf firms to review their links with the toxic Trump brand”.
“We can not comment on anything related to Donald Trump”, a Damac spokesman told The National yesterday.
Trump’s empire stretches throughout the world, including in predominantly Muslim countries like the United Arab Emirates, Turkey and Indonesia, according to his company’s corporate website and financial disclosures.
Prominent UAE-based businessman Khalaf Ahmad Al-Habtoor has ruled out any chance of working with Trump, saying he doesn’t trust him anymore.
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FILE – In this Thursday, Oct. 8, 2015 file photo, Republican presidential candidate Donald Trump speaks at a rally, in Las Vegas. In an interview in July, he said that his characterization of Mexican immigrants as violent criminals and “rapists” had lost him customers for his brand.
