Trump Tower's Residents Are Thoroughly Embarrassed By Donald Trump

By Mae Rice in News on Dec 9, 2015 4:19PM

Today in First World problems: Trump Tower residents may live in million-dollar-ish condos on the banks of the Chicago River, but they still feel awkward about presidential candidate and noted xenophobe Donald Trump, whose last name hangs in 20-foot-tall letters on their building’s facade.

"It's been a little embarrassing," Peter Young, an attorney with a condo at Trump Tower, told the Tribune. "I just say, 'I live on the river.'"

From another source:

"I tell people, 'I rent from a doctor,'" said one older woman, an employment lawyer who like most residents declined to give her name because she didn't want to be publicly associated with Trump. "I'm worried about a terrorist attack against the building," she added. "I wish he'd shut up."

Trump, whose presidential campaign has slowly morphed from an SNL sketch come true to abjectly terrifying, has recently called for “a total and complete shutdown of Muslims entering the United States” in a press release, following a shooting in San Bernadino by suspected ISIS sympathizers.

(In an amazing neutrality contortion, the Tribune does not directly compare Trump to Hitler, but notes that he has been “openly compared to Hitler” by other people.)

The Tribune situates concerned Trump Tower residents among other customers and business partners seeing Trump’s luxury brand in a new light due to his presidential campaign.

Not that it’s made any deals fall through so far. Trump’s business partners in Dubai, a Muslim country, have stood by him; in Chicago, it doesn't look like Trump Tower’s uncomfortable residents are in a hurry to move out. About 22 of the tower’s roughly 500 condos are on the market, according to the Tribune.