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The Shadow All Star Tournament, which would have featured strippers as caddies, was slated for Saturday at Trump National Doral Golf Club to benefit a local youth charity.
But the event got the axe after the charity pulled out, a spokeswoman for the Trump Organization says.
The strip club at the center of the event, Shadow Cabaret in Hialeah, Florida, also confirmed the tournament’s cancelationbut wrote on Facebookthat it was due to “the climate of everything.”
“We chose to host our tournament at the Trump Doral because of the prestigious golf course and luxury hotel accommodations. Though we have decided to cancel our event we will not let this detour us from continuing to work with different charities and to give back to the community.”
The tournament was slated to benefit Miami All-Stars, a basketball-themed youth charity.
Trump National Doral Golf Club.Angel Valentin for the Washington Post
The charity director, Carlos Alamilla,initially told theWashington Postthat he was hesitant to associate his organization with a strip club but would do so in order to “get some help” for his programs.
A day later, however,he told CNNhe hadn’t realized a strip club was involved when he agreed to be a beneficiary of the tournament.
Emanuele Macuso, the Shadow Cabaret marketing manager, told thePostthere was to be no nudity at the Trump Doral and that the caddies would be wearing pink miniskirts and “a sexy white polo.”
The event was to continue on back at the strip club, where dancers would put on a “very tasteful” burlesque show with nudity.
Mancuso said it was the first time his club had ever hosted an event at the resort and that it’d been chosen because it was luxurious, not because of any political affiliation.
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Kimmel continued: “Can you imagine ifBarack Obamahad a golf course that hosted a bunch of strippers? Lou Dobbs would have a stroke, right there on television. … The man is the president of the United States. No one running his golf course thought this might be a bad look?”
President Trump owns Doral, which he reportedly bought in 2012 for $150 million, but has passed on control of the Trump Organization to sonsDon Jr.andEricwhile he’s in office, according to thePost.
The arrangement has drawn sustained criticism that Trump has not properly divided his personal business ties from his government work.
ThePostreported that Miami All-Stars — which its director said provides “fitness, nutrition, basketball and academics” — is not registered in the state despite describing itself as a “non-profit organization under the laws of the State of Florida.”
source: people.com
