Trump’s name, likeness removed from Dubai golf development
Donald Trump’s name and likeness have been removed from a Dubai development on which the Republican presidential candidate is to manage a golf course.
Damac Properties has pulled down a billboard featuring Trump at its Akoya by Damac project. Trump is set to co-own and manage Trump International Golf Club Dubai, a Gil Hanse-designed course, in the luxury development, which will also include a spa, according to Reuters. Before Thursday, a billboard outside the development had showed an image of Trump swinging a golf club amid a golf course backdrop. A similar billboard featuring Trump’s daughter Ivanka, a vice-president for the Trump Organization, was also been removed. In addition, gold lettering of the course name on a stone wall at the entrance to the project site was also removed.
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.
On Tuesday, a Damac spokesperson showed support for Trump in light of a proposal the real-estate developer made that called for a “total shutdown” of Muslims entering the United States from abroad.
“We would like to stress that our agreement is with the Trump Organization as one of the premium golf course operators in the world and as such we would not comment further on Mr. Trump’s personal or political agenda, nor comment on the internal American political debate scene,” said Niall McLoughlin, a senior vice president at Damac Properties.
The proposal, offered in the days after the San Bernardino, Calif., terrorist attack which left 14 dead and 21 injured, was labeled as fascist by fellow presidential candidates of both parties.
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