Trump Tower is, in many ways, a 68-story monument to the hypocrisy of Donald Trump. The Midtown Manhattan monstrosity, whose gold entryway sign bearing his name screams off-Strip Vegas casino, used concrete from a firm owned by the Genovese and Gambino crime families. It was built by 200 undocumented Polish immigrants who claimed they were paid meager off-the-book wages. And if that weren’t enough, Haitian dictator Jean-Claude “Baby Doc” Duvalier, who massacred thousands of his people, used to be the proud owner of apartment 54-K, while Prince Mutaib bin Abdulaziz Al Saud, a senior member of the Saudi royal family, owns an entire floor in the building.
Thus, it was the perfect setting for Michael Moore’s latest stunt: Yesterday, the Oscar-winning documentary filmmaker/provocateur stood outside the tacky erection with a sign that read “We Are All Muslim.” The 61-year-old did so in order to protest the Republican presidential candidate’s proposal to ban all Muslims from entering the U.S. in the wake of the San Bernardino shooting. One of the shooters, Tashfeen Malik, likely became radicalized in Saudi Arabia.
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