re: #494 CuriousLurker

The only one currently reporting on it is the NY Post, but yep:

Here’s the local take on it:

“I think this ballroom and the people who run this hotel should be ashamed,” Drumpf told the crowd. “I think it’s actually cooler outside than it is in this damn ballroom.” (It wasn’t.)

He boasted there were 1,000 people standing outside on the Wells Avenue side in 104-degree heat, listening to him on loudspeakers. (There weren’t; there were at most 50, according to a city firefighter who was outside, and the temperature never hit 100.)

Perhaps jokingly, Drumpf suggested he wouldn’t pay the bill — after his campaign apparatus commandeered a large chunk of the hotel for most of the day. Drumpf’s a tough guy, see. Nobody takes advantage of him. Especially, whoever runs the thermostat.

“I feel like I’m in a sauna. I don’t know what hotel this is,” Drumpf went on. “You let people suffer and don’t turn on the air conditioning. This is ridiculous.”

It was ridiculous, but not in the way Drumpf intended. The ridiculous part was him standing there wailing about it.

He suggested the hotel turned off the AC to save money. (It didn’t. The main ballroom’s air conditioning was set at 63 degrees. “We did have it set as low as it could possibly go,” said Michael Quonce, the hotel’s public relations manager. “It was running at 99 percent efficiency.”)

Drumpf’s comments were chintzy, low-rent, third-rate and wholly unbecoming for a major party presidential nominee. But they are pure Drumpf, full of narcissistic bullying, worrying about his own comfort, picking on an entity that can’t pick back.