Trump's boycott mania has hit Seattle before

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Joe Copeland Jan 12, 2018

Jan 12, 2018

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                <h1>Trump's boycott mania has hit Seattle before</h1>
                <h2><p>Donald Trump is among those who want to strike back at Starbucks over its simple use of red for holiday cups without other reference to Christmas. As Joel Connelly of seattlepi.com documents, this is a man with a quadruple venti passion for boycotts. At one point in 2011, Trump</p></h2>
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            <p>Donald Trump is among those who want to strike back at Starbucks over its simple use of red for holiday cups without other reference to Christmas. As <a href="http://blog.seattlepi.com/seattlepolitics/2015/11/10/donald-trumps-global-calls-for-boycotts-from-starbucks-to-italy-from-mexico-to-glenfiddich/?ref=dev.cascadepbs.org">Joel Connelly of seattlepi.com documents</a>, this is a man with a quadruple venti passion for boycotts. At one point in 2011, Trump decided to go to bat for Seattleite Amanda Knox by tweeting that "everyone should boycott Italy" if the nation didn't free her (she eventually was released and cleared of all charges in the death of a roommate during a university study program).</p><p>Connelly runs through other Trump boycott tempests, against Macy's (yes! The bland department store dropped a line of Trump clothing over his attacks on Mexican immigrants), Mexico (well, because), and Glenfiddich scotch (because the company gave an award to a Scottish land owner who wouldn't sell his property for a Trump golf course).</p><p>We are just waiting for Trump to remember his Italian threat and Knox's subsequent release as a GOP presidential debate talking point on his international diplomatic skills.</p>
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Donald Trump is among those who want to strike back at Starbucks over its simple use of red for holiday cups without other reference to Christmas. As Joel Connelly of seattlepi.com documents, this is a man with a quadruple venti passion for boycotts. At one point in 2011, Trump decided to go to bat for Seattleite Amanda Knox by tweeting that "everyone should boycott Italy" if the nation didn't free her (she eventually was released and cleared of all charges in the death of a roommate during a university study program).

Connelly runs through other Trump boycott tempests, against Macy's (yes! The bland department store dropped a line of Trump clothing over his attacks on Mexican immigrants), Mexico (well, because), and Glenfiddich scotch (because the company gave an award to a Scottish land owner who wouldn't sell his property for a Trump golf course).

We are just waiting for Trump to remember his Italian threat and Knox's subsequent release as a GOP presidential debate talking point on his international diplomatic skills.

Joe Copeland

By Joe Copeland

Joe Copeland is the former senior editor&nbsp;for Crosscut, where he has been an editor since 2010. Before that, he was an editorial writer and columnist for the Seattle P-I and editorial page edi

Joe Copeland is the former senior editor&nbsp;for Crosscut, where he has been an editor since 2010. Before that, he was an editorial writer and columnist for the Seattle P-I and editorial page edi