Miriam, Donald Trump is broadly idolised among white southern
evangelists. There are plenty of pro Trump protagonists within blind
faith folks.
On 9/13/18, Miriam Vieni <miriamvieni@xxxxxxxxxxxxx> wrote:
I would love to forward this to every blindness list I'm on for all those
blind Trump supporters to read. But I just don't feel like dealing with the
fallout. If you only knew what hysteria there was on the BARD Talk list
because of the announcement of Woodward's book, Fear, first being on
Bookshare and then yesterday, on BARD. I have my own criticisms of all these
books but these people just refuse to believe what the books report. First
it was Michael Wolff's book, now this one.
Miriam
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From: blind-democracy-bounce@xxxxxxxxxxxxx
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Subject: [blind-democracy] "No Blind Need Apply"...sign on Trump Tower
It would be interesting to peek into Donald Trumps mind and see what
he thinks of America's Blind Citizens. The following note could give
us a hint.
Carl Jarvis
President Donald Trump allegedly ordered an architect not to include braille
in Trump Tower elevator panels because "no blind people" would live in his
building—even after being informed that excluding the tactile writing system
is against federal law.
The alleged interaction was recounted by Barbara Res, who led construction
at the Trump Organization, in an opinion piece in the New York Daily News on
Wednesday.
"What's this?" Trump, noticing the small raised dots, reportedly asked the
architect who went to his office to show what the residential elevator
interiors would look like.
"Braille," the architect responded.
Trump apparently demanded that the architect take the feature out.
"We can't," the architect replied. "It's the law."
"Get rid of the [expletive] braille. No blind people are going to live in
Trump Tower," Trump shouted, according to Res. "Just do it."
The architect pushed back, making Trump yet more mad. The future president
also apparently called the architect weak, considered architects and
engineers to be weak unlike construction workers, and enjoyed tormenting
weak people.
Trump ordered "outrageous or just plain stupid ideas, both legal and
illegal. Sometimes those lines were blurred," Res wrote.
