Trump bragged that his tower withstood a fire — silent about lack of sprinklers

[rightwinger]

When I owned rental properties, mostly single houses but a few duplexes, I offered to install sprinklers if the tenants would agree to a $2/month rent increase. A figure that would cover the installation costs in about 2,500 months. For you mathematically challenged liberals, that's 208 years, 4 months. Not really expecting any tenant to stay that long nor even to own any of the properties that long. Point was, did they want sprinklers enough to put a tiny bit of skin in the game.

One tenant did. She was 83 years old at the time and valued every minute she had left. Her unit got a very high grade sprinkler system installed very quickly. The others? A few didn't want the mess of the installation; most objected to paying $24 more per years (libs: $2 per month times 12 months in a year = $24).

The others failed to see ANY value in sprinklers so I simply honored their wishes. Over the years one of the houses had a fire. A grease fire on the stove which would have been made worse by sprinklers. But the dumb shit living there tried to throw the flaming pan out a closed window so there was more damage than there should have been. Most of it to his clothing but enough skin damage to make him smart. Smart as in suffer a little pain - not to increase intelligence. Could have saved his skin had he put a tiny bit in the game.

Maybe Trump should offer $2 a month sprinklers

 

[Confounding]

Must be hard..having to sneak up in the mirror...with the low tolerance and all. I find you banal..and pretty much the same as all the other cookie cutter assholes who never are able to respond to a post without casting it in their political mold...and ignoring any inconvenient facts..like..Trump fought sprinklers for his building..that's a fact smegma lips...and it speaks to his character..not that most of us need any confirmation as to that!

The sprinklers might have saved him..argue that..idiot.

Donald Trump is not responsible for that man's death. Your attempt to make it seem otherwise is what makes you weak and desperate.

As for not being a Trump supporter..review your posting record...and try to say THAT with a straight face...Lol!

Maybe you should review it before you run your mouth about things you know nothing about, though I'm sure that's nothing out of the ordinary for you.

BTW...those who cut out pieces of posts to respond to them..are intellectually dishonest...and define the term hacks.

Which part of your outstanding post do you think I should have addressed in order to be intellectually honest?

 

[theDoctorisIn]

oddly enough, your kind...

I'm one of a kind, bitch; unlike the droves of partisan hacks that populate this forum. The facts are that an old man died in a building fire. Trying to blame it on Trump is weak as fuck. You don't even know that sprinklers would have saved him. I'm not a Trump supporter. I just have a low tolerance for weak ass bullshit.

Yes, I'm sure you're as unique as a snowflake.

It's relevant in the context of the type of person that Trump is - he spent more money donating to City Councilmen to kill a law that would have mandated installation of sprinklers than it would have cost to just put the damn sprinklers in.

 

[bodecea]

This is the kind of outrage that makes the left look stupid and desperate.

You're right...people dying means nothing. Carry on.

 

[Confounding]

"I say everything sucks, therefore I can never be wrong about anything."

Is that what I do? Sorry, I'll try to be more open minded like you.

 

[theDoctorisIn]

Some people like to pretend that Trump didn't exist before 2016.

 

[Confounding]

This is the kind of outrage that makes the left look stupid and desperate.

this is the kind of post that makes you look stupid.

You seem to like me just fine when you agree with me. Is everything that's different than what you think stupid?

 

[WheelieAddict]

Some people like to pretend that Trump didn't exist before 2016.

Ask NYers about Trump. He has been a joke for a long time.

 

[Confounding]

Yes, I'm sure you're as unique as a snowflake.

Yes, I am.

It's relevant in the context of the type of person that Trump is - he spent more money donating to City Councilmen to kill a law that would have mandated installation of sprinklers than it would have cost to just put the damn sprinklers in.

Yeah, Trump is a bit of a greedy asshole, but I didn't really take that as the message. The message seemed to be more like "This man would still be alive if not for Donald Trump's greed." Maybe I took it the wrong way.

 

[theDoctorisIn]

Some people like to pretend that Trump didn't exist before 2016.

Ask NYers about Trump. He has been a joke for a long time.

Born and raised in NY.

I'm well aware.

 

[theDoctorisIn]

Yes, I'm sure you're as unique as a snowflake.

Yes, I am.

It's relevant in the context of the type of person that Trump is - he spent more money donating to City Councilmen to kill a law that would have mandated installation of sprinklers than it would have cost to just put the damn sprinklers in.

Yeah, Trump is a bit of a greedy asshole, but I didn't really take that as the message. The message seemed to be more like "This man would still be alive if not for Donald Trump's greed." Maybe I took it the wrong way.

I think that's you reading things into the OP that weren't there.

 

[Moonglow]

This is the kind of outrage that makes the left look stupid and desperate.

The dead guy says he disagrees...

 

[theHawk]

Trump bragged that his tower withstood a fire — but has been silent about the man who died in it


I guess the thought that he was against something that may have saved a life...escapes him?

Billionaire too cheap to install sprinklers.

"After the fire, Trump’s former opposition to a law requiring sprinklers in residential high-rise buildings came under scrutiny. In the 1990s and early 2000s, Trump lobbied against a bill that would have required sprinklers to be installed in all residential buildings in New York, backing down only after existing buildings such as his own were allowed to be grandfathered in, the New York Daily News reported.


On Saturday, Nigro confirmed to reporters to that no sprinklers were in place in the upper residential floors of Trump Tower, where the fire broke out.


Several residents also spoke of the fear and chaos that erupted after they realized their building was on fire.


“It was a very horrible experience . . . there was no evacuation system in place . . . we were at a loss of what to do. I almost fainted. I thought we would die,” Lalitha Mason, who lives on the 36th floor of Trump Tower, told the New York Post. “My husband is disabled and we were helpless. All we could do is put wet towels under the door and pray.”"

For the president, however, the fire seemed first a chance to boast of the construction quality of Trump Tower on Twitter, his preferred method of communicating with the public.

“Very confined (well built building),” Trump tweeted Saturday, about an hour after the fire broke out. “Firemen (and women) did a great job. THANK YOU!”

Fire at Trump Tower is out. Very confined (well built building). Firemen (and women) did a great job. THANK YOU!

— Donald J. Trump (@realDonaldTrump) April 7, 2018
Trump also declared that the fire had been extinguished — before it actually had been.

The fire was still not considered to be under control then because of smoke conditions above the 50th floor, Nigro said Saturday. It was brought under control shortly before 8 p.m. Saturday, about an hour after Trump’s tweet, fire officials said.

“This was a very difficult fire. As you can imagine, the apartment is quite large; we are 50 stories up,” Nigro said. “The rest of the building had a considerable amount of smoke.”

Though Trump thanked the “firemen (and women)” who responded to the blaze, his tweet made no mention of those who had suffered injuries.

At the time, the resident who had been pulled from his burning Trump Tower apartment was listed in critical condition, and officials initially said four firefighters suffered minor injuries.

Officials later announced that the Trump Tower resident had died at Mount Sinai Hospital and identified him as 67-year-old Todd Brassner, who lived in unit 50C. They also revised the count of injured firefighters from four to six.

Nevertheless, Trump’s Saturday evening tweet has remained the only comment he has made regarding the fire in his building, where he keeps an office and a residence. The White House said Saturday that the first family was not in New York when the fire broke out.

On Sunday morning, Trump posted about a half-dozen tweets on a variety of subjects, including the “rigged” investigation into Hillary Clinton and how he and Chinese President Xi Jinping would “always be friends, no matter what happens with our dispute on trade.” But he has not revisited the Trump Tower fire, even after news of Brassner’s death.

So now it’s President Trump’s fault that laws and building codes in ultra blue New York don’t require water sprinklers?

Trump derangement syndrome on full display here.

 

[Confounding]

I think that's you reading things into the OP that weren't there.

Meh, my bad then. I didn't realize you all agree that Trump is not responsible for the death.

 

[BULLDOG]

Trump Tower is a fire trap

With rats.

 

[Confounding]

You're right...people dying means nothing. Carry on.

It's not Donald Trump's fault that the man is dead. This is weak outrage. People will cling onto anything in efforts to smear the opposition.

 

[Fort Fun Indiana]

Is that what I do? Sorry, I'll try to be more open minded like you.

A fine idea!

 

[WheelieAddict]

Some people like to pretend that Trump didn't exist before 2016.

Ask NYers about Trump. He has been a joke for a long time.

Born and raised in NY.

I'm well aware.

Me too. Well upstate that is nothing like the city I lived in Queens for a bit though lol.

 

[Confounding]

Is that what I do? Sorry, I'll try to be more open minded like you.

A fine idea!

Though maybe I'll stick to never being wrong, like you said earlier. I like that more than the thing you do.

 

[EvilEyeFleegle]

I think that's you reading things into the OP that weren't there.

Meh, my bad then. I didn't realize you all agree that Trump is not responsible for the death.

Of course, Trump isn't responsible. Nor is he culpable. But he could have reduced some of the factors...that he did not...speaks to who he is...and what, we, his people, should expect of him.

Perhaps it's justice..a selfish, shallow people..get a selfish, shallow President.

It's his lack of empathy that may yet get us in real trouble. He has not even expressed his condolences for the man who died in his building..you know..Trump Tower?

I don't think any of us are real to him....