Tomorrow's Targets: Trump Towers?

Trump buildings are extremely visible because President-to-be Donald Trump, during his empire-establishing career, loved to see his name on them.

This has now created real problems. And dangers.

My sympathies go out to various intelligence services (CIA, ONI, NSA) and the FBI. Due to the election of Donald Trump, immediately, very physical targets exist reflective of the new USA presidency, and by extension, America. The job of gathering Informaton on plots and protecting these buildings falls to the alphabet soup of this network and aligned law enforcement agencies.

The potential that any one of these flamboyant structures may be assaulted, by car bombs, hand-thrown bombs, or even fuel-heavy planes, has been heightened.

The new post-election, fortress America is certainly true at various Trump Towers in New York City. The possible most significant future bull's eye is being guarded from bombings with cement trucks, until the US Secret Service can fortify the building more permanently. The surprise victory of Trump on Election Day gave little time for a more thoughtful solution.

The use of the name "Trump" so widely and so openly, throughout the world, has caused a major security and political headache. This is especially true for individuals who do not want to be identified with the Trump name, but discover they live or work in just such a building.

Trump Tower is located at 725 5th Avenue. You can obtain your own replica of this building here.

Regarding the "Trump name game," on buildings, it has come to the fore rapidly that it is proving to be a challenge. On Wednesday, November 16, 2016, Donald Trump’s name will be permanently removed from a series of New York City buildings, "in an apparent repudiation of his divisive presidential campaign."

The name “Trump” has been displayed prominently on 140, 160 and 180 Trump Place, in Manhattan’s Upper West Side, for more than a decade. Trump developed the apartment buildings in the 1990s....
The move comes after hundreds of residents signed a “Dump the Trump name” petition calling for “Trump” to be removed from the buildings....
The apartment buildings will no longer use the address “Trump Place”, Equity Residential said, instead adopting the formal street address of Riverside Boulevard. Trump-branded doormats were removed from the buildings in the days before the presidential election.
Signs saying “Trump Place” – in large gold letters – will be removed from the three buildings on Wednesday.
Trump developed the apartments, between 59th Street and 71st Street on the west side of Manhattan, in partnership with investors from Hong Kong in the 1990s, according to the New York Times.
Seven buildings bear the Trump name. While some are managed by the Trump Organization, the three apartment buildings at 140, 160 and 180 Riverside Boulevard are now controlled by Equity Residential.
Trump’s home, Trump Tower, is located just a mile and a half east of Trump Place. Source.

There are other buildings that are tied to the Trump legacy.

Trump's son-in-law owns another high profile building - 666 Fifth Avenue in New York City. In December 2006, Tishman Speyer, along with the German investment firm TMW, announced the sale of the building to the Kushner Properties for $1.8 billion (about $2.2 billion real value), at the time the highest price ever paid for an individual building in Manhattan. Kushner Properties' owners are Charles Kushner and his son Jared Kushner. Jared is married to Ivanka Trump, the daughter of President-elect of the United States Donald Trump.

There are currently many sites around the world that may be in jeopardy, potential magnets for demonstrators or bombers, and thus new national security concerns. 

Here are the top ten, as identified by Dezeen.

Trump International Hotel, Las Vegas, Nevada.

Trump International Hotel and Tower, Chicago, Illinois.

Trump International Hotel and Tower, Toronto, Canada.

Trump Ocean Club, Panama City, Panama.

Trump SoHo, New York City, New York.

Trump Tower, New York City, New York.

Trump International Hotel, Las Vegas, Nevada.

Trump Tower, Manila, Philippines.

Trump Towers, Istanbul, Turkey.

Trump Towers, Sunny Isles Beach, Florida.

Trump World Tower, New York City, New York.

For more background info on these structures, see here.

For more on other Trump properties, see here.

Source for these maps, "In Maps: Trump properties around the world," CTV News.

11/9 Mass Protests & Suicide Rumors in Wake of Trump Victory

The copycat effect is calling forth mass actions by people across the country, directly due to Donald Trump's surprise winning of the presidential election of 2016.

People protest Donald Trump outside Trump Tower.

Reports of street protests by hundreds and thousands of people have be noted on Wednesday afternoon and night, 11/9 in the following locations:

New York City, NY

Oakland, CA

San Francisco, CA

Los Angeles, CA

Seattle, WA

Portland, OR

Tempe, AZ

Austin, TX

Detroit, MI

Nashville, TN

Chicago, IL

Boston, MA

Philadelphia, PA

Portland, ME

and...

At Berkeley High School in California, about 1,500 students walked out of classes Wednesday morning. In Des Moines, Iowa, it was hundreds of high school students who left class to protest of election results. In Phoenix, about 200 students from Carl Hayden High School marched to the state Capitol in protest. Source.

Clown cartoons also popped into the newspapers and other media after the Trump victory.

Suicide is a choice of some individuals and there is a rumor that as many as nine transgender children (some adult children) died by suicide or attempted suicide the night Donald Trump was elected President.

 

The rumor debunking site Snopes "were unable to substantiate that any transgender children attempted or [died by] suicide on the night of 8 November 2016 in reaction to the election results or for another reason. No names, dates, locations, or other information along those lines have been presented, and those sharing versions of the rumor were not themselves parties to the purported tragedies. In the absence of any additional information, the claim remains unsubstantiated."

Trucidation Trump Tales & X-Files' Tipping-Point Trumpets

In The X-Files episode, "Babylon," (Season 10: Episode 5, first broadcast 2.15.2016 on Fox), "Fox Mulder" told "Dana Scully" of the enigmatic reports of the sounds of trumpets coming from the heavens.  He informed Scully that the people who have heard the trumpets believe them to be a “Herald of End Times,” as described the Bible's Book of Revelation.

Were the trumpets fictional precursors of another kind?

The leading Republican candidate, according to primary and caucus results is New Yorker Donald Trump, famed for his Trump Towers.

Donald Trump’s German wine-growing ancestors were named Drumpf, according to journalist Gwenda Blair’s book The Trumps: Three Generations That Built An Empire. (Thanks Michael Skotnicki.)

Historically, the surname Drumpf's meaning is unknown. However, the name appears loosely associated with a “deceased person” – a dead issue.

The name Trump has its origins from English (Devon), being a metonymic occupational name for a trumpeter, from Middle English trumps, "trumpet," From German (Bavaria), Trump is a metonymic occupational name for a drummer, from Middle High German trumps, "drum." Source.

The early English medieval surname Trump is derived from the pre 8th century Olde French Trompeor, and as such was introduced by the Norman invaders of England in 1066. It is a metonymic or job descriptive name either for a trumpeter or a maker of trumpets, and is recorded in the modern forms of Trump and Trumper. Amongst the many early recordings are those of Patrick Trumpe in the rolls known as the "Calendar of Inquisitions for the county of Cumberland" in the year 1275. Source.

This is the coat of arms that up till now has been used on clothing and promotional material by Trump in Scotland. His new coat of arms (granted in 2012) will show a double-sided eagle representing the dual nationality of Trump's heritage. There will also be three chevronels - one more than depicted here - which will represent sky, sand dunes and sea. Source.

Numquam Concedere is Latin for "Never Give Up."

The verb “trump” also once meant to fabricate or deceive (from French “tromper”). The phrase “to trump up” still means “forge” or “invent,” as in “trumped-up charges” or the many, many headlines punning on “Trumped-up rhetoric” or “Trumped-up politics.” If last week’s Washington Post report suggesting that Trump is a compulsive golf cheat is any measure — “the worst celebrity golf cheat,” according to Alice Cooper — this definition of “trump” may be as essential to Trump’s identity as the other. ~ The Boston Globe, "Why Donald Trump trumps Donald Drumpf," 9.9.2015.

Double-headed eagles have been present in imagery for millennia. The two-headed eagle can be found in the archaeological remains of the Hittite civilization, dating from a period that ranges from the 20th century BC to the 7th century BC. The Gandaberunda is another example of a mythological two-headed bird, which is in common use in India (The Kingdom of Mysore).

This symbol has more recent links to Freemasonry.

I wrote the chapter "The Double-Headed Phoenix" in An Illustrated Guide to the Lost Symbol, edited by Dan Weber (NY: Simon and Schuster, 2009). I discuss how Dan Brown in his book subtly uses the evolution of the "double-headed Phoenix" to the "two-headed eagle" of Freemasonry to alert his readers to the rebirth of the Masonic spirit in the founding of America.

The use of the two-headed eagle as Trump's personal coat of arms appears intriguing, to say the least.

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In the midst of all the Trump talk, one of the dark shadows that few in the mainstream media wish to explore is the hints that there are some very real rumors of assassination of Donald Trump. It may be only a weird conspiracy thought (as shown here in this "Killing Trump"), but it appears to be one that Trump takes seriously.

Republican presidential candidate Donald Trump reportedly always wears a bullet proof vest while he’s out campaigning. Sources 1, 2, 3, and 4.

Trump's inability to button up his coat is blamed on his wearing this bullet proof gear. Source.

During 2015, Trump asked the Federal Bureau of Investigation to look into the threats allegedly made by notorious drug kingpin Joaquin "El Chapo" Guzman (who was eventually captured).

In such a strange political year, it is not out of the question that an assassination attempt might change the course of what's "predicted" now by all of the media pundits. There is good reason for Trump to protect against an assassination try on his person.

Assassinations in the past have redrawn the political map. It could happen again. It should not, and hopefully the U.S. Secret Service have stepped up their awareness across the board for all the candidates. These are strange days where body armor may not be enough.