Economy
Trump's Insults to Harrisburg Recall His Own Business Failures
Pennsylvania’s capital city is still digging out from a deal that broke it financially—a calamity that mirrors the way Trump built his own empire.
Anyone who’s visited Harrisburg, Pennsylvania, knows that it’s an idyllic city situated on the Susquehanna River. Donald Trump should know that, too, after holding a chaotic rally there in April, and after speaking in nearby Mechanicsburg on Monday night.
But during a speech in Northern Virginia on Tuesday, Trump said Harrisburg “looked like a war zone.” He apparently meant that it looked like a war zone from the lofty view from his plane on Monday night, according to The Guardian’s Ben Jacobs. Picture the Donald, slicing into a piece of Original Recipe with fork and knife, peering down on Harrisburg with disgust.