Americans Disgusted With POTUS, Second Building In Two Days To Have Trump's Name Removed

A few months back, one of the numerous lawsuits that Donald Trump went through as part of his tenure as the most sued President in the history of the world resulted in the removal of his name from a residential building in New York that had been associated with him for decades. No, not a removal from the lease or the deed — residents voted to spend their own money to pay for a work crew to come and pry the two-foot-tall gilded letters of the President’s last name off the side of the edifice.

That was previously the most recent in a spate of buildings electing to do exactly that: Distance themselves from the name “Trump” as it gets more and more toxic the longer Donald Trump is in office. Now, for the second time in only two days, the name has been voted off two more buildings that are part of the same neighborhood known as “Trump Place” in Manhattan. On Friday, it was 220 Riverside Boulevard. Thursday it was 120 Riverside.

They were the last two buildings in New York City with that particular name, Trump Place, on the side.

In a bit of irony, each of the name removals had to be done after a vote from the residents of the buildings, and for all of his bluster about how much easier it would have been to win the popular vote in 2016 if he’d actually been trying to, I’m pretty sure he wishes there was an electoral college for these buildings — because he’s losing vote after vote.

It’s not particularly close, either. According to an email from the condo board obtained by the Washington Post, the vote was a landslide:

Of the 83 percent [that] voted, 74.7 percent voted to remove the signage, and 25.3 percent voted not to remove the signage.”

That’s not just using percentages to make it sound like more people, either. There are 413 units in Trump Place at 220 Riverside, and only 24 of them are currently for sale or rent, according to real estate listings. If 83 percent of the building voted, that was over 300 residents, the vast majority of whom voted against keeping the name.

Obviously, the decision was just made, so we don’t have footage for you yet of workers removing the name from the last two Trump Place buildings. But in the meantime, we do have a couple minutes’ worth of footage from last October’s removal of the name at 200 Riverside, the building between the two most recent ones.

Enjoy!