Trump’s Florida enterprise, Trump Miami Resorts Management — which manages his hotel and golf complex named Trump National Doral Miami — is sending most of its peons workers to Florida’s unemployment office to find enough funds to hopefully scrape by during this pandemic.
Yes, Donald Trump, self-claimed billionaire, apparently is too poor to take care of the people who do the drudge work at his property. If he really is a billionaire, how hard would it be to pay their salaries and give them a vacation to stay home safe and sound for a couple of weeks? After all, Covid-45 has ordered the nation’s governors to re-open their states on May 1 — just two week from now — and there can be little doubt that his Floridian lapdog, Gov. Ron DeSantis, will obediently comply.
Trump could just grant his employees an extra two weeks of vacation this year and keep them on his payroll. Let’s assume that he pays them an average of $5,000 per month (yeah, I know, there’s no way Trump would pay peasants that kind of money but let’s be generous):
2 weeks vacation = $2,500 per worker
560 workers x $2,500 = $1,400,000
To you and me, that might be a significant chunk of money. To a billionaire? That would be 0.14% of his wealth, assuming he had only one billion (Donald claimed about 10 billion the last time I recall his boasting about it). Another way of looking at it is it’s probably less than the annual costs of riding crops for Ivanka to flog her overseas sweatshop workers and Jared’s botox injections.
Now some might say that his boys, Dumb and Dumberer, are in charge of his properties so it’s not Donald’s fault. If you believe that, you’re not reading this because if you’re that naive you’ve probably already died from drinking fish tank cleaner after Donald told you it cures coronavirus.
And we haven’t even factored in his under-the-table workers. We know, from their own testimonies, that Trump has hired and exploited undocumented workers so there are undoubtedly even more people he is throwing under the financial bus driven by his reckless government polices and personal greed.
So why can’t Trump take care of his own?
Oh, yeah. It’s because he’s a soulless sociopath.
To answer my headline, why not both?
Sources
Trump National Doral Miami cuts 560 workers amid coronavirus pandemic at Local10.com
Una empresa de Trump suspendió y dejó sin salario a 560 empleados del hotel y golf en Miami-Dade at El Tribuno (in Spanish)