New York City Mayor Bill de Blasio has told MSNBC in an interview that "the Big Apple" is ending all its contracts with the Trump Organisation worth around $17 million annually. The Organisation is party to a city contract to operate two ice rinks and a carousel in Central Park as well as a golf course in the Bronx.
"The president incited a rebellion against the United States government, a clearly unconstitutional act", the Democratic mayor contended, adding: "That's unforgivable".
Amid accusations that Trump allegedly incited the Capitol mob on 6 January, the PGA voted to strip its namesake championship from Trump's Bedminister golf course in New Jersey, next year. Also, a British golf organisation also said the British Open will not be hosted by a Trump property in the "foreseeable future", and the e-commerce company Shopify moved to stop its involvement in running the online Trump Store.
Separately, a handful of banks, including one of Trump's biggest lenders, Deutsche Bank, have reportedly said they would abstain from lending to Trump's company:
"We witnessed the president of the United States encouraging the rioters and refraining from calling in the National Guard to protect the Congress in its performance of duty", said one such bank, New York's Signature Bank, once reportedly so close to the president's family that it put his daughter Ivanka on its board.
Some family members, however, came up with upbeat comments, with Eric Trump for his part suggesting that his father had "created the greatest political movement in American history" and that his prospects are "endless", Eric told The Associated Press on Tuesday.
Blows to the Trump family's business, which already number quite a few, are part of a liberal "cancel culture", Eric said, noting combatively that his father will leave the Oval Office with a powerful brand vehemently supported by millions of voters who will follow him "to the ends of the Earth".
The Capitol mayhem, which has ultimately resulted in an impeachment resolution soon to be debated on the House floor, saw five people, four protesters and a police officer, die. The Democrats instantly blamed the incident on Trump, who had spoken moments before the crowd swarmed the legislative building, voicing calls for Vice President Mike Pence to invoke the 25th Amendment to remove the president just a week before his successor Joe Biden assumes office.
