A Washington, D.C.-area restaurant apologized Monday for hosting a dinner during which Tila Tequila and friends did a “Sieg Heil” Nazi salute that the former celebrity later tweeted.
Why is a Vietnamese-American woman named after a Mexican liquor aligning herself with white racists? Who knows? You may want to save your outrage over this — you’re going to need it for other things.
Maggiano’s Little Italy said on Facebook it had no idea its guests were part of the pro-white National Policy Institute, which held a weekend gathering in Washington where attendees spouted Nazi propaganda.
Tequila, whom you may remember from “A Shot at Love With Tila Tequila,” which aired on MTV nine long years ago, and whose Twitter banner displays her Photoshopped alongside Donald Trump wearing a Nazi armband, has lately spent her time courting attention with tweets like this one, from Monday:
“Women who complain about Trump saying, ‘Grab her by the pussy!’ Are retards because I love getting grabbed by the pussy! Lmao!”
Several people protested outside Maggiano’s on Friday night, to the surprise of the restaurant, where employees were caught unaware that white nationalists like Italian food, apparently.
“This was a last minute booking made Friday afternoon, and the reservation was made under a different name, therefore we were not aware that NPI was dining with us or what the group represents,”Maggiano’s said on Facebook. “After the event, an attendee sent a tweet in which she made a ‘Sieg Heil salute’ in support of Hitler and white supremacy. This expression of support of Hitler is extremely offensive to us, as our restaurant is home to Teammates and Guests of every race, religion and cultural background.”
Racists and has-beens sharing breadsticks. This must be that normalization-of-evil we’ve been hearing so much about.
5 Major Trump Stories You Missed in the 'Hamilton' Distraction (Photos)
By now you probably know every detail of Donald Trump's fight with the cast of Broadway's "Hamilton" -- but you may not have heard about all the serious stories it overshadowed this weekend. Here are five of them.
Alt-right leader Richard B. Spencer led a gathering in a federal building three blocks from the White House where he quoted Nazi propaganda and declared, "To be white is to be a creator, an explorer, a conqueror," according to the New York Times. The attendees chanted "Heil Victory!" and some did the Nazi salute, the paper said. (Activists report 700 cases of "hateful harassment" since Trump's election.)
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Trump met last week with three Indian business partners building a Trump-branded complex in that country, which raised conflict-of-interest questions about whether he will separate his business dealings from his new job: being president. A Trump spokeswoman declined to comment on whether Trump and his business partners talked business, the Times said.
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Trump said the $25 million he agreed to pay to settle a fraud lawsuit against his now-defunct Trump University was only "a small fraction of the potential award" he would have had to pay his he had lost the case. (He also said he would have won.) No other president in history has had to settle a massive fraud case before taking office.
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Trump took credit Friday for keeping Ford keeping a plant in Louisville, Ky. instead of moving to Mexico -- but Ford had never planned to move it to Mexico or to cut Louisville jobs, the Detroit Free-Press explained.
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It turned out Trump hasn't actually signed the 1,000 "signed" hats he offered on his Facebook page in exchange for campaign contributions. They were actually signed by a machine, ABC News reported.
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But never mind all that, because all anyone talked about this weekend was "Hamilton" -- as several Trump critics noted. "Don't let Trump bury his fraud case with this 'Hamilton' noise. This is what he does every damn time. Stop letting him get away with it," said Calvin Stowell, the chief growth officer at Do Something, which urges young people to volunteer for good causes.
“Don’t let Trump bury his fraud case with this Hamilton noise. This is what he does every damn time”
By now you probably know every detail of Donald Trump's fight with the cast of Broadway's "Hamilton" -- but you may not have heard about all the serious stories it overshadowed this weekend. Here are five of them.