{"id":145744,"date":"2019-10-21T12:00:05","date_gmt":"2019-10-21T11:00:05","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.transcend.org\/tms\/?p=145744"},"modified":"2019-10-20T07:54:34","modified_gmt":"2019-10-20T06:54:34","slug":"trump-offers-freed-isis-fighters-a-group-rate-at-trump-doral-miami-resort","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.transcend.org\/tms\/2019\/10\/trump-offers-freed-isis-fighters-a-group-rate-at-trump-doral-miami-resort\/","title":{"rendered":"Trump Offers Freed ISIS Fighters a Group Rate at Trump Doral Miami Resort"},"content":{"rendered":"<div id=\"attachment_145745\" style=\"width: 510px\" class=\"wp-caption aligncenter\"><a href=\"https:\/\/www.transcend.org\/tms\/wp-content\/uploads\/2019\/10\/TrumpDoralResort-miami-usa.jpg\" ><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" aria-describedby=\"caption-attachment-145745\" class=\"wp-image-145745\" src=\"https:\/\/www.transcend.org\/tms\/wp-content\/uploads\/2019\/10\/TrumpDoralResort-miami-usa.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"500\" height=\"350\" srcset=\"https:\/\/www.transcend.org\/tms\/wp-content\/uploads\/2019\/10\/TrumpDoralResort-miami-usa.jpg 649w, https:\/\/www.transcend.org\/tms\/wp-content\/uploads\/2019\/10\/TrumpDoralResort-miami-usa-300x210.jpg 300w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 500px) 100vw, 500px\" \/><\/a><p id=\"caption-attachment-145745\" class=\"wp-caption-text\">Photograph by Jim West \/ Alamy<\/p><\/div>\n<p><em>18 Oct 2019 <\/em>\u2014 Calling it a \u201conce-in-a-lifetime incredible deal,\u201d Donald Trump today offered recently-escaped <em>ISIS<\/em> fighters a group rate at his Trump National Doral Miami Resort.<\/p>\n<blockquote><p><em>\u201cI am giving ISIS a group rate that entitles them to the full run of the golf course, the spa, you name it,\u201d <\/em>he said.<em> \u201cThis is going to make the ISIS people very, very happy.\u201d<\/em><\/p><\/blockquote>\n<p>The fighters can qualify for the group rate by presenting proof of <em>ISIS<\/em> membership and their recently freed status, Trump said.<\/p>\n<p>Trump declined to say whether he would extend the same group rate to Kurdish fighters in Syria.<\/p>\n<blockquote><p><em>\u201cI\u2019m not a fan of the Kurds,\u201d <\/em>he said.<em> \u201cWhere were the Kurds in 1776 when George Washington took control of the British airports?\u201d<\/em><\/p><\/blockquote>\n<div id=\"attachment_145746\" style=\"width: 440px\" class=\"wp-caption aligncenter\"><a href=\"https:\/\/www.transcend.org\/tms\/wp-content\/uploads\/2019\/10\/isis-mena-syria-turkey-terrorism.jpg\" ><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" aria-describedby=\"caption-attachment-145746\" class=\"size-full wp-image-145746\" src=\"https:\/\/www.transcend.org\/tms\/wp-content\/uploads\/2019\/10\/isis-mena-syria-turkey-terrorism.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"430\" height=\"195\" srcset=\"https:\/\/www.transcend.org\/tms\/wp-content\/uploads\/2019\/10\/isis-mena-syria-turkey-terrorism.jpg 430w, https:\/\/www.transcend.org\/tms\/wp-content\/uploads\/2019\/10\/isis-mena-syria-turkey-terrorism-300x136.jpg 300w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 430px) 100vw, 430px\" \/><\/a><p id=\"caption-attachment-145746\" class=\"wp-caption-text\">Islamic State militants\u00a0 (photo: Andalucia Informacion)<\/p><\/div>\n<p>Shortly after Trump made the offer to <em>ISIS<\/em>, however, the group\u2019s leader, Abu Bakr al-Baghdadi, issued a lukewarm response.<\/p>\n<blockquote><p><em>\u201cWe\u2019ve read some not-so-great things about the Doral on TripAdvisor,\u201d <\/em>Baghdadi said. <em>\u201cIf we wanted to go to a golf resort, we\u2019d pick one that doesn\u2019t have bedbugs.\u201d<\/em><\/p><\/blockquote>\n<p><em><a href=\"https:\/\/www.transcend.org\/tms\/wp-content\/uploads\/2017\/11\/jokes-logo-e1527068528538.jpg\" ><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"size-full wp-image-102260 aligncenter\" src=\"https:\/\/www.transcend.org\/tms\/wp-content\/uploads\/2017\/11\/jokes-logo-e1527068528538.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"100\" height=\"67\" \/><\/a><\/em><\/p>\n<p><em>____________________________________________<\/em><\/p>\n<p style=\"padding-left: 40px;\"><em><a href=\"https:\/\/www.transcend.org\/tms\/wp-content\/uploads\/2014\/12\/andy-borowitz-320-e1492615001617.png\" ><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"alignleft size-full wp-image-51101\" src=\"https:\/\/www.transcend.org\/tms\/wp-content\/uploads\/2014\/12\/andy-borowitz-320-e1492615001617.png\" alt=\"\" width=\"100\" height=\"100\" \/><\/a><\/em><em>Andy Borowitz is a <\/em>New York Times<em> best-selling author and a comedian who has written for <\/em>The New Yorker<em> since 1998. In 2001, he created the Borowitz Report, a satirical news column that has millions of readers around the world, for which he won the first-ever <\/em>National Press Club<em> award for humor. The Borowitz Report was acquired by <\/em>The New Yorker<em> in 2012.<\/em><\/p>\n<p><a target=\"_blank\" href=\"https:\/\/www.newyorker.com\/humor\/borowitz-report\/trump-offers-freed-isis-fighters-a-group-rate-at-trump-doral-resort\" >Go to Original \u2013 newyorker.com<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>18 Oct 2019 \u2014 Calling it a \u201conce-in-a-lifetime incredible deal,\u201d Donald Trump today offered recently-escaped ISIS fighters a group rate at his Trump National Doral Miami Resort.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":4,"featured_media":51101,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[42],"tags":[83],"class_list":["post-145744","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-joke-of-the-week","tag-joke"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.transcend.org\/tms\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/145744","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.transcend.org\/tms\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.transcend.org\/tms\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.transcend.org\/tms\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/4"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.transcend.org\/tms\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=145744"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.transcend.org\/tms\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/145744\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.transcend.org\/tms\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/51101"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.transcend.org\/tms\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=145744"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.transcend.org\/tms\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=145744"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.transcend.org\/tms\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=145744"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}