Vietnam moves its dead to make way for Trump golf course, report says

[groundloop]

Source: The Independent

Vietnamese farmers are exhuming the graves of their ancestors in order to clear land for a sprawling Trump Organization complex set to include five-star hotels, upscale villas and a golf course, according to a new report.

The $1.5 billion project — seen as key to relations between Hanoi and Washington — broke ground last year in Hung Yen province, but has since sparked backlash from local residents, some of whom have refused to comply with government demands, citing both sentimental and financial concerns.

“The grave of my great-grandparents has been there since 1967, before the establishment of this country,” Hoang Anh Xa, who has five relatives buried in a cemetery set to be dismantled, told The Financial Times. “So why should I move them?”

“It’s a spiritual thing,” Tran Minh Hai, a local farmer, added. “People don’t want to disturb the graves.”

Read more: https://www.the-independent.com/news/world/americas/us-politics/vietnam-cemetery-trump-golf-course-b2986089.html

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"The $1.5 billion project — seen as key to relations between Hanoi and Washington" Those few words tell us all we need to know about the massive corruption going on in our government.

[UpInArms]

1. I am sick to death of this grifting crap

Most corrupt maladminstration ever

[underpants]

2. That his family gets to keep?!?! And in Vietnam no less.

[Ray Bruns]

3. So when do we get to digging up the people buried at Arlington for the arch?

[Floyd R. Turbo]

4. 💵💵💵💵💵💵💵💵💵💵💵💵💵

[muriel_volestrangler]

5. Set-up for a horror movie

Who knows who could end up getting buried in the newly-laid foundations of the ballroom?

[no_hypocrisy]

11. Junior and Eric must have watched "Poltergeist" and didn't want the same ending.

[2naSalit]

13. They are inviting...

Some serious ancient juju upon themselves. Can hardly wait to see that.

[Baitball Blogger]

6. After Trump leaves office, this golfcourse will be abandoned.

[Diamond_Dog]

7. Trump had to build on this particular plot of land

Out of the entire country? Nowhere else would suffice? They couldn’t build his tacky golf course anywhere else?

[ColoringFool]

16. The Hurt Caused Is Part Of The Attraction.

[Wonder Why]

8. Hey, Ho! Are they moving your grave, too? Guess you lost the war in the end. We both did.

[ColoringFool]

17. I Still Think Ho Chi Minh Won. Why Think Otherwise, Simply....

Because Trump/Kushner Corruption, LLC, is building there.

This is the exact same future of Gaza, as well, as Jared has signaled.

[Wonder Why]

23. His revolutionary descendants sold out his country to fascist capitalists.

[Deuxcents]

9. Every day. Every damn day we learn about a new low in this bottomless pit of insatiable greed

[A-Schwarzenegger]

10. You cannot make it up.

You just cannot.

[AZJonnie]

12. The "relations" bit does SOUND damning, but without any quotes, it could be editorial license by the author

I mean it makes sense & it could well be true, but what we have here doesn't prove it when it lacks attribution. Just saying

Regardless of that, however, this is freaking BULLSHIT

[gilligan]

14. This

FUCK TRUMP!

[ColoringFool]

15. The Repulsive Irony Is As Rich As Croesus.

[TommieMommy]

18. This is sooo wrong. Holy crap 😳

[kimbutgar]

19. Just when you think the orange piggy turd can't be a more major grifter he is breaking all records !

This is bs for Vietnam to allow this and i hope the spirits of the dead haunt that gold course so when anyone plays golf there they hit off center, chilly dips, hacker and quintuple bogies. A cursed golf course that unplayable!

[twodogsbarking]

20. "Vietnam" is a word that carries so much power it is difficult to hear it and not feel it. It is a place and a time too

[LoisB]

21. How disrespectful.

[The Madcap]

22. From what I have heard about humidity in Vietnam,

I can't imagine playing 18 holes there. It would be truly miserable unless, of course, you have an air-conditioned cart.

[Fla Dem]

24. Disgusting, absolutely disgusting.

Hopefully he'll end up buried in a dump when his time comes.

[Marcuse]

25. As with the American civil war, the side that lost the war won the peace.

[sakabatou]

26. ARE YOU FUCKING KIDDING ME?!

[2MuchNoise]

28. It's grotesque. So very trumpish.

[True Dough]

27. I would have thought

Vietnam, of all places, had seen enough of Agent Orange!

[BigmanPigman]

31. Obviously they like bone spurs more than their own their dead relatives.

No body forced them, they chose this. I have less than zero respect for anyone who chooses $$$$$ instead of honoring the memory of their own, dead citizens. I hope this story is not correct. I want to puke!

[stillspkg]

29. Really

Not good grief; really, really bad grief

[Orrex]

30. Holy fucking shit why doesn't he just fucking die?

[SouthBayDem]

32. To the Vietnamese-Americans who voted for the payaso because of party tradition,

I hope it was worth it.

As an Asian-American who grew up in an area with many Vietnamese immigrants, I've seen that older Vietnamese (those who came pre-1990s, by my estimate) tend to be more conservative. Hence "party tradition", similar to certain states voting lockstep D or R from ca. 1860s-1960s due to Civil War allegiances (see the presidential election results in "Union" states like Kansas vs. "Confederate" states like Tennessee). Like Cuban-Americans, Vietnamese have seen Republicans as stronger anti-communists.

In contrast, younger (born '80s or later) Vietnamese-Americans are more down-the-middle depending which part of the country; to my recollection Orange County still has a strong Republican Viet-Am machine (exception: Rep. Derek Tran, a Democrat) while where I'm from (the Bay Area) nearly every Asian-American elected official is Democratic.

[Initech]

33. It's seen as a key between Vietnam and the fucking man child in the White House.

God damn him. Fuck him to hell.

[electric_blue68]

34. Disgusting.

[NBachers]

35. I see banshees and ravens pulling out his tortured soul and rending & tearing at it for all eternity.

He has brought this unto himself.

[orleans]

36. he's a fucking monster!

which reminds me of how he dumped a dead wife of his in a golf course

[joshdawg]

37. Sacrilege!!!

[The Wizard]

38. The worst assignment

I got in Vietnam was in War Zone D. It is now a golf course. The Vietnamese have ways of dealing with the likes of Trump. Maybe Trump thinks getting into a war in Vietnam will last 3 days.