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As ye sow, so shall ye reap, it would seem. Roland Mehrez Beainy is an immigrant from Lebanon and, in his personal search for the American Dream, he opened up several locations of a small restaurant chain that pays homage to his hero, Donald Trump. The name of the chain is Trump Burger, each location is heavily decorated with Trump memorabilia, and the buns are even branded with Trump's name:
When you see something like that, the brand is usually in close proximity to a source of bull**it. So, we guess it works.
Incidentally, they also have a Biden Burger on the menu. Here is the description (unedited):
1 oz beef topped with old tomato and our oldest buns unavailable due cheating and inflation $50.99
Beainy's satire is almost as skillful as his grammar. He does not seem to have noticed that Trump is only 4 years younger than Biden. And if we're going to use ingredients to make political statements, then shouldn't the Trump sandwich be made with chicken?
And now, the problems. First up is that Trump is more than happy to have anyone and everyone kiss his... well, buns. But the first rule of Trumpism is that you DO NOT use his name without paying him, bigly. So, Trump's lawyers sent Beainy a cease-and-desist letter, such that the chain will presumably have to change its name. It's taking a while for that to get sorted out in court, because Beainy is also involved in numerous lawsuits with his partners over both ownership and profits.
And that leads us to the second problem. When you own a restaurant, and you do a bunch of interviews about that restaurant, and you become enmeshed in lawsuits because of that restaurant, you draw a lot of attention to yourself. And when you bring a lot of attention to yourself, you run the risk that the government will discover that... you are an undocumented immigrant, and are in the country illegally. As is so often the case, Beainy entered the country legally on a guest visa, and then overstayed. He then lied on his immigration application, and entered into what looks to be a sham marriage. So, he has a hearing in a couple of months, and it's likely he'll be deported by ICE.
Needless to say, and as we will make very clear next week, we have much sympathy for most of the people being targeted by ICE. But these "American Dream for me, but not for thee" folks? The ones who backed Trump because they assumed he would go after the other immigrants? They are hypocrites, and we have no sympathy for that. (Z)