In 2011, the official Twitter account for Trump Hotels asked its followers to share their “favorite travel memory.” In light of recent events, the Twitterverse resurrected the old tweet and breathed new life into it with a healthy dose of irony.
“Tell us your favorite travel memory – was it a picture, a souvenir, a sunset?,” the tweet asked. “We’d love to hear it!”
Seemingly triggered by the word “travel,” Twitter users pointed to the travel nightmare experienced by immigrants from the seven countries included in President Trump’s executive order banning their entry to the U.S.
@TrumpHotels
Mine is staying at the Four Seasons when I travel!
impeccable service.
Trump hotels are the Motel 6’s of fancy hotels.
Sad!— Kaj-Erik Eriksen (@KajEriksen) January 28, 2017
.@TrumpHotels My asylum grant. Thanks for asking pic.twitter.com/yRftCMNsah
— Aminatou Sow (@aminatou) January 28, 2017
@TrumpHotels @nybooks It was to Syria. In 2010. A beautiful place. A country full of warm, welcoming people who greeted us everywhere like friends.
— Sarah Ra (@hundredgrapes) January 28, 2017
@TrumpHotels Visiting San Francisco – the American city my grandparents settled in after leaving the Philippines after WWII.
— Cate Sevilla (@CateSevilla) January 29, 2017
@TrumpHotels They escaped concentration camps and a country devastated by war. They weren’t turned away and I’m here today because of it.
— Cate Sevilla (@CateSevilla) January 29, 2017
@TrumpHotels I remember the old days, when you could travel abroad without feeling ashamed of being an American in the Trump era.
— David Walker (@DavidWalk3) January 28, 2017
oh thanks for asking @TrumpHotels My day at #turnberry = awesome wifi – great security & knowing Trump was watching through the window. pic.twitter.com/jEUgNONtVH
— Janey Godley (@JaneyGodley) January 28, 2017
.@TrumpHotels hearing about my grandfather’s perilous trip to America by boat as a child alone. I wonder if he would be let in today?
— Noah Scalin (@NoahScalin) January 29, 2017
.@TrumpHotels Being abroad when Obama was elected and seeing how happy everybody was for both America and the world.
— jdh (@502eire) January 28, 2017
@TrumpHotels I enjoyed the hospitality of @Airbnb; an experience made even more memorable in comparison with Trump’s hideous #MuslimBan. pic.twitter.com/webVkEpbJp
— kim (@kim) January 29, 2017
@TrumpHotels My grandfathers returning home after fighting in WW2. Glad they are not alive to see Nazis running our country now.
— Laura Packard (@lpackard) January 29, 2017
Chanting “Shame” outside your Washington D.C. hotel with a million people last weekend! @TrumpHotels
— Joan Walsh (@joanwalsh) January 29, 2017
Mine is my mother’s story of fleeing Nazi Germany by train for Brussels where she lived in hiding until she could escape to US as a refugee https://t.co/w55C9ynjoo
— Susan Kandel (@susanrkandel) January 28, 2017
You can see the entire Twitter thread here.
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