Thanks to a particularly stubborn Palm Beach town council, Donald trump is getting perhaps more publicity than expected from installing an 80-foot flagpole complete with a huge American flag. As reported on October 5th by this blog, trump has been playing Palm Beach city officials for all they’re worth.
Whatever else he’s good at, Trump is a master of self-promotion and this is one more great example. If members of the council were smart, and evidently they’re not, they would have quickly and quietly passed some sort of special zoning variance and been done with it. Instead, according to the Telegraph.co.uk, the town is facing a $25 mil lawsuit and negative press on the state and national levels.
For example, the South Florida Sun-Sentinel has jumped on the band wagon, calling the Palm Beach council “anti-American”, and suggesting that if council members “think there is ever a time the American flag is not appropriate, perhaps they should all go back to whatever country they came from”.
As we said of this back in October, no matter how this plays out, Trump wins and Palm Beach looses. Too bad the Palm Beach council didn’t possess the humility to realize that in the first place.