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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.

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i wasn't too sure about this story till the bolded which seems spot on
https://www.newsweek.com/donald-trump-braille-blind-people-1118601

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These individuals, who preside over a company with unrivaled influence over the flow of information, can be seen disparaging the motivations of Trump voters and plotting ways to use their vast resources to thwart the Trump agenda.

Co-founder Sergey Brin can be heard comparing Trump supporters to fascists and extremists. Brin argues that like other extremists, Trump voters were motivated by “boredom,” which he says in the past led to fascism and communism.

The Google co-founder then asks his company to consider what it can do to ensure a “better quality of governance and decision-making.”

VP for Global Affairs Kent Walker argues that supporters of populist causes like the Trump campaign are motivated by “fear, xenophobia, hatred, and a desire for answers that may or may not be there.”

Later, Walker says that Google should fight to ensure the populist movement – not just in the U.S. but around the world – is merely a “blip” and a “hiccup” in a historical arc that “bends toward progress.”

CEO Sundar Pichai states that the company will develop machine learning and A.I. to combat what an employee described as “misinformation” shared by “low-information voters.”

(00:23:12) Noughton does acknowledge “diversity of opinion and political persuasion” and notes that she has heard from conservative Google employees who say they “haven’t felt entirely comfortable revealing who [they] are.” and urged “tolerance.” (Several months later, the company would fire James Damore allegedly for disagreeing with progressive narratives.)

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LEAKED GOOGLE TAPE: Google Leftist Leadership’s Dismayed Reaction to Trump Election


https://www.breitbart.com/tech/2018/09/12/leaked-video-google-leaderships-dismayed-reaction-to-trump-election/
https://www.breitbart.com/tech/2018/09/12/the-google-tape-google-ceo-sundar-pichai-promised-to-fight-fake-news-educate-low-information-voters/


Video in tweet: https://twitter.com/ezralevant/status/1040011654753394688

https://i.imgur.com/tsWfOOa.jpg

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How's your WiFi signal in dat echo chamber heli
Seems pretty solid

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In an alternate universe, President Donald Trump would be heading into the midterms relentlessly touting his stewardship of a strong economy with results that include historically low unemployment, solid economic growth, sky-high enthusiasm among small businesses and shattered records for job openings.

Instead, the president is repeatedly muddling that message with easily debunked falsehoods or hyperbole about the state of the economy while pressing on with unpopular trade wars that frustrate establishment Republicans and business groups worried about price increases. His undisciplined approach — coupled with his obsessing about the Russia investigation, Hillary Clinton and the 2016 election — is damaging what many Republicans say should have been a political slam dunk for the GOP heading into the fall.

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One senior administration official also said that Trump, as a former businessman and not politician, does not always bask in or relish his administration’s successes, or boast about them enough since he’s often so eager to move onto the next thing and does not always realize how hard-fought victories can be in government.

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His Twitter stream this week, with just nine weeks until the midterms, have focused on the impending hurricane, a tell-all book by Bob Woodward, the NFL anthem controversy, North Korea, trade with China, Hillary Clinton — and the economy.

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Outside the White House, Trump’s seeming inability to just stick to strong economic facts to make his case without resorting to inaccurate superlatives or contrasts to Obama is also frustrating economic conservatives who want the president to stay laser-focused on what he’s done on taxes and regulation rather than fight with a former president, or the Canadians or anyone else.

“As is often the case, the president is his own worst enemy here,” said David Bahnsen, chief investment officer of The Bahnsen Group, a wealth-management firm. “The deregulatory efforts are indeed laudable and pro-growth for us free-enterprise advocates. But how many times has the president talked about 10 percent business investment growth, or capital expenditures. Instead his messaging is that Canada is ripping off Americans. It’s exasperating."