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Headline says "A second Trump Burger owner was detained by ICE. His lawyer says he's suffering from medical neglect.", Attached is an image of George Bush Jr being notified that a second plane has hit the World Trade Center.

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[–] pelespirit@sh.itjust.works 47 points 2 weeks ago (2 children)

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It was pretty bad before this.

Seventeen days after Roland Beainy, the face of the viral restaurant Trump Burger and an ardent fan of the president, was detained by Immigration and Customs Enforcement and accused of not being in the country legally, Iyad Abuelhawa — who founded the Trump Burger forerunner in 2016; whose wife recently slammed Beainy for taking credit for their idea; who, 20 years ago, was accused of injecting 1,100 Exxon Mobil employees with fake flu vaccines and then, while in jail, snitched on another inmate’s murder-for-hire-plot before pleading guilty in his own case — was also detained by ICE and is being held in untenable conditions, according to his attorney.

https://www.houstonchronicle.com/news/houston-texas/article/trump-burger-second-ice-arrest-wrong-20827379.php

[–] NOT_RICK@lemmy.world 20 points 2 weeks ago (2 children)

I had to read that like 5 times to wrap my head around it

[–] pelespirit@sh.itjust.works 14 points 2 weeks ago (3 children)

This is what was described as happening for the first owner that was detained by ICE

  • Suing partner because he gave him 65k to be a partner. Has witnesses. Partner says there was no written contract and is counter suing.
  • Landlord is suing Trump burger because he registered Maga Burger 2 months before they opened up and never told them. The landlord demanded 10k more a month added on to the 11k because they're using "his name."
  • The partners are suing the landlord because all of their credit card transactions started to go to the landlord.
  • Landlord is trying to take over the restauraunt as his own but the Lebanese born co-owner was detained by ICE.
  • Trump sent a cease and desist for using his name.

https://www.click2houston.com/news/local/2025/08/08/trump-burger-owner-faces-deportation-after-ice-arrest-in-houston/

[–] FauxPseudo@lemmy.world 9 points 2 weeks ago

They deserve each other. The partners each other. Trump and each of them. Everyone involved.

[–] grrgyle@slrpnk.net 7 points 2 weeks ago (3 children)

Wow...

So what do we call a group of awful people? A wretched? A groan? Maybe a gnashing?

I need one word that I can use to mentally write these assholes off with

[–] breadsmasher@lemmy.world 16 points 2 weeks ago

a republican

[–] pelespirit@sh.itjust.works 10 points 2 weeks ago

An entitlement

[–] FoolishObserver@lemmy.world 9 points 2 weeks ago

A Grand Ol' Party

[–] A_norny_mousse@feddit.org 5 points 2 weeks ago

I still can't wrap my head around it!

But nevermind, it's an entitlement of awful people doing awful things to each other, that will do.

[–] techt@lemmy.world 9 points 2 weeks ago* (last edited 2 weeks ago)

Once you get to the second semicolon in the same sentence, I'm calling it journalistic malpractice.

8 commas

2 em dashes

2 semicolons

1 sentence

[–] Doc_Crankenstein@slrpnk.net 9 points 2 weeks ago

Republicans everyone. These are not mentally well-adjusted people.

[–] tazeycrazy@feddit.uk 12 points 2 weeks ago
[–] DarkFuture@lemmy.world 11 points 2 weeks ago

Hope it hurts.

[–] Viking_Hippie@lemmy.dbzer0.com 7 points 2 weeks ago