Trump International Hotel called it unfortunate, but is not quite ready to apologize after a staff member mistakenly thought Duck Dynasty star Jase Robertson was a homeless vagrant and kicked him out of the pricey Manhattan high-rise.
Notice how their family doesn’t complain when someone makes an incorrect assumption about them? They actually think Facial Profiling is funny!
Would that others could be so generous and not point fingers…
Even in Louisiana the Duck guys looks like homeless bums. My family is from there and believe it or not people there do use razors and go to the barber.
I’ve never understood why the CEO of a company looks like Wille does. I’ve seen pictures of Willie, Jas, and the other brother clean shaven in their early 20’s. They were normal looking guys. The beards seem to have come just in the past 12 years or so.
I wore a beard between 1982 and 1998, but mine was neatly trimmed. I shaved around the edges of it every other day and kept it shaped.
Exactly. I’ve had to explain to a couple guys that a “nice” beard is just about as much work as shaving. Letting it just “be” and creep up the cheeks and down the neck just makes you look like a total gross pig at best and homeless at worst. Or maybe homeless is at best since at least there’s an excuse.
These guys have the cash that if they really wanted no-fuss beards that looked nice, they could easily get laser treatment for the stuff they would normally have to shape. A friend of mine did that, because his beard was so, so thick he would cut himself, get a rash, and break out every time he tried to shave his neck. So he would do it rarely, and then look terrible for 2-3 days every time. He got laser treatment and now it always looks good and no maintenance.
To each his own, I guess, but if you want to buck social norms you have to expect some misunderstandings. As long as you have the personality type to take things in stride, like these guys seem to, I guess it doesn’t make life any harder.
I’m going to regret this, for many reasons, but good for Trump International. If you want to look like a bum, you have to accept that you are going to get treated like a bum. If Howard Hughes in his wilder years showed up at a place I owned, I’d show him the door even if I recognized him.
Fuckin’ hippies. 
From what I can tell they just do it for the visibility/branding. Their wives don’t seem to like it.
The beards really add to their personas. If they weren’t bearded, the show would not be as popular, I guarantee. I don’t think I’d watch it the same. It wouldn’t feel the same, or right. And I’m a woman who dislikes beards!
They’re good folk, tho.
The incident itself was really just kind of goofy:
It’s like something out of a Three Stooges movie.
“Facial Profiling.” I’ll have to remember that phrase next time it happens to me (and it does). Not that I’d be caught dead in anyplace owned by Trump.
Would you feel the same way if he’d been a black guy, or a Muslim?
It’s not the same at all. Race/religion are who a person is. They’re identity.
The way someone grooms and dresses themselves is a lifestyle choice. Everyone is free in the U.S. to groom and dress however they want. But other people have a right to be disgusted or offended by it too.
I’m by no means a style icon. I haven’t worn a suit since age 16. Jeans and a nice polo shirt are my work attire. But I’m clean and tidy. I look like I belong in my office or at a restaurant. No one will mistake me for a homless guy.
He’s worth ten million dollars, he’s huge on television, people whose job it is to tell the difference between homeless people and eccentric household name multimillionaires with the power to publicly embarrass them treated him like shit. They should apologize immediately, vigorously and frequently.
The only difference between eccentric and a slob is the ten million dollars.
Maybe if he’d been wearing one of those WalMart t-shirts with his face on it, he might have been treated better…
I’m all for treating a person who looks like a bum as you would a bum. I’m also all for treating a black man like a black man or a Muslim like a Muslim.
Can you just remind me again how we are supposed to treat blacks and Muslims?
I told you Trump was a facist.
You guys sound just like grumpy old farts of the 60s protesting against the “youth of today”. Get a haircut! I mean, a beard cut…
What do you reckon this guy’s chances would be of getting thrown out of the Trump Hotel?
That beard is obviously groomed. Beards were becoming a big thing in the 1850s.
It’s not just the beard, it’s the clothes. In the article, [del]the nutcase[/del] multi-millionaire is dressed like he’s homeless.
ETA: they all lookhomeless
How can he embarrass the hotel? He may be rich, but he has no influence whatsoever on people who can afford to stay there. I mean, is anyone going to think, “Huh - I was going to stay at the Trump hotel, but now that it was rude to Jase Robertson, I’ll go somewhere else”?
In fact, this can only *help *the hotel’s reputation.
To Trump, that IS a homeless vagrant.
I say good for Trump (or at least “whatever”). A business has a right to enforce a certain standard. Most places enforce a “no shoes, no shirt, no service” policy. Some restaurants enforce a jacket required policy. It’s not inconceivable that a fancy hotel require their guests to not look like a Duck Dynasty star.
If you don’t like it, perhaps you would be more comfortable at a Starwood ‘W’ hotel.
They could do a montage of him getting barbered like Julia Roberts going shopping, with a Roy Orbison sound-alike singing “Hairy Redneck”
On the positive side: the Robertson men can easily reenter private life after the show ends. They’d be unrecognizable shaved and with fresh haircuts.
A lot of celebrities are like that. I’ve heard it’s one reason that Dolly Parton always appears in wigs, heavy makeup, and low cut dresses. No one knows what she looks like dressed down and without the wig.