BrewDog’s message to Donald Trump: ‘Get out!’
As a foreign company getting ready to set up a home in the United States, BrewDog co-founder James Watt has apparently been paying close attention to American politics…and especially to the words of Republican frontrunner Donald Trump. Watt issued an open letter to Trump on Wednesday. In it, he gifts the billionaire with two shares of BrewDog’s crowdfunding enterprise Equity for Punks. And then he asks Trump to do something in return…exit the race for president. As you might expect from the Scot, he’s blunt. Here’s a portion of his message to the candidate:
You see Donald, although I admire people in the world of business who are uncompromising in their ambition, all this Presidential stuff is nonsensical. To quote a great countryman of yours – you cannot be serious?
Building a massive wall to keep everyone out? Opposing same sex marriage? Insulting the disabled? Calling immigrants criminals and rapists?!
Your ideas are as misplaced as your hair, sir.
So you may well be wondering how – and why – you are our newest Equity Punk. The first of those is easy. We have made it simpler than ever to give the gift of BrewDog shares at Christmas.
You do believe in Christmas, don’t you – sitting there at the top of your Tower, which is probably not at all compensating for something?
You see, Christmas is a time for peace and goodwill to your fellow man. I am making the gift of two Equity for Punks shares to you with a single aim in mind – that it will spark a desire in you to get back into business (locking yourself in your office, if necessary).
In turn hopefully you will give a gift to the rest of humanity – that you will stop trying to become leader of the free world. Please. Then we can all get on with our lives in that world filled with life, liberty and the pursuit of hoppiness.
Merry Christmas,
James
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Both a political statement and a plug for Equity for Punks. Well-played.
(photo credit: Donald J Trump)
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