The owner of the popular gym chain Equinox has announced he will host a fundraiser for Donald Trump’s reelection.
Stephen Ross, the real estate developer who holds the majority stake in Equinox Fitness Clubs, will host a fundraiser for Trump in Southhampton. Tickets to the event sell for $250,000 per person.
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Ross himself is no stranger to Trump, or to money. With an estimated net worth of more than $7 billion, Ross also owns or has previously owned stakes in Hudson Yards, the Maimi Dolphins, PURE Yoga, Blink Fitness, SoulCycle and the Time Warner Center. He’s also enjoyed a long friendship with Trump for decades.
In response to the announcement, a viral campaign started on Instagram encouraging Equinox members, and those of its subsidiaries like PURE Yoga, Blink Fitness and SoulCylce to boycott the fitness chain.
We suspect the response for Equinox’s substantial gay clientele will look something like this:
Gays: Boycott Trump-supporting business!
Equinox owner: supports Trump
Gays: pic.twitter.com/j5KnfE903b
— Jack (@LahartJack) August 7, 2019
Invader7
NEVER even set foot in an Equinox “fitness” center.And now after reading this article – NEVER will. I am not paying money to the over lord oppressors… Ross is Jewish !! Oy Vey. That’s akin to the Jews who SUPPORTED Hitler !!!
Aires the Ram
Oh my, pick up a history book sometime and get an education.
Invader7
Eeek. Members start cancelling &/or NOT renewing their memberships !!!
mz.sam
Boycott all Equinox fitness centers. And vote all GOP up and down ballot this coming election!
mz.sam
Vote all GOP up and down ballot out of office this coming 2020 election!
jlwk55
Oh no, where will the gays go to gym now?
IanHunter
Any other gym? There’s about a thousand of them.
WashDrySpin
You mean the elite gays…
At $160 and up per month for a membership…that is STUPID
Based on information from current and recent Equinox members, monthly fees range up to $300 per month, plus initiation fees. Business Insider reported in 2016 that “members pay $200 to $300 initiation fees and $160 to $250 monthly rates.”
DCFarmboy
yes, boys and girls, corporate America is not our friend no matter how many Pride Parade floats they sponsor. Why have you not learned this?
dwes09
Some corporations have good records for inclusion and treatment of LGBT people. Some do not. Don’t stereotype. but of course they have no “friends”. People have friends, corporations are not people.
Ryan99
Corporate America is only friends with itself. It doesn’t give a fig about you, Trump or anybody else. It just wants to make money.
The world could burn, and as long as the profits keep rolling, they’re happy.
justgeo
The ones in NYC are gay bars with straight boys parading their ass in the steam room to bait.
burn the over priced sweat holes down.
funpitt412
This publicity only helps businesses. Look at Chick-fil-A, how many people try to boycott it? It is doing great.
ShiningSex
Well people are stupid. Look at the ugly Trumptards. Shameful. America is now a piece of shit country. Hopefully next year we can regain logic and equality for ALL
Cam
This is a right wing lie. Chick Fil Et lost a few franchises and at least two schools pulled out of deals to have them. Boycotts against right wing supporters caused companies like Target to change policies. It also drove other companies like Taylor Gormet completely out of business.
Meanwhile right wing boycotts of NIKE and Disney have failed over and over.
ShiningSex
If anyone supports Trump, they’re vermin. end of discussion
Rock-N-RollHS
Living in your head must be a rather bifurcated and idealistic space. America was never “great” per se; Trump just reveals an aspect of America that has always existed. I’m sure many more corporations are supporting trump on the down low. It’s to their benefit. After all, making money is the American definition of success.
whateverokok
So if Bette Middler, Madonna, and Cher vocally/financially supported Trump then they’re vermin? Good to know.
boymikefl
Boycotting businesses that hate you and our community…you may think, “Gee, I’m just one person.” But in the end, you’re hurting your soul. Never support hatred directed at you.
PLAYS WELL WITH OTHERS
100% co-sign. I really was considering trying Chik-Fil-A-Hate. But had the same thoughts you had. Would be bad for my soul….
davey14
Maybe he could pay the $500,000 the Trump campaign still owes the city of El Paso for security costs incurred last February.
Kangol2
The Drumpf campaign owes money to El Paso, DC, and a number of other cities. Loafers and freeloaders that Drumpf lot, I tell ya!
Slim
This whole conversation is racist and bigoted. This is America; Steve Ross can support whomever he chooses. That’s what make Democracy and not dictatorship. If you want to boycott Equinox do so because their rates are too dam high! Steve Ross wants to be on the good foot, if Democrats continue this hate message because of Issues that are not every American’s concern Trump will be re-elected. New York is just one state will a small American population…
Kangol2
“Racist” how? You just pulled that word out of your behind. Grow up. If someone singled Ross out for being white it’d be one thing. But everyone has every right to criticize him for supporting a rapist, treasonous, lying monster. And New York is the country’s fourth most populous state with the most populous (and ever growing) city in the US, so get a grip!
truthseeker
@Slim
That’s how liberals / Democrats operate. They want to have 1 political party to erode civil liberties and tax the populous to death. Julian Castro even tried to start crap by listing the names and addresses of white Trump donors (he purposely excluded Latinos from his list) in his area on Twitter in an attempt to shame them
Even at the Democratic debates, they claim they want to “reform” campaign finance by making campaigns “federally funded” LOL. That means they want to take our tax dollars to fund their campaigns and funnel the money to their friends while leaving us poorer
chi eg
Since 2016, I have one message for rational people: it is pointless to try to engage with Trump supporters and apologists. It is pointless to examine their arguments or even bother to listen. They are literally the lowest form of scum with no humanity at all. I’d compare them for animals, but animals are far more logical and not nearly as cruel.
I don’t think a billionaire scum bag like Ross will give a shit if I cancel my Equinox membership, but I’ll sleep better and my money will be put to better use.
Cam
It’s always adorable when one troll with two accounts tries to post a conversation with themselves.
Also cute….is how the right wing is so far gone that they seem to think that by screaming out “It’s racist” at anybody pointing out their hatred, it will scare liberals from doing so.
Nope, Trump is a bigot and a racist and a sexist. This guy is supporting him, therefore people who disagree with hatred are perfectly free to not hand their money over to businesses that are helping fund GOP hate.
Slim
Well there are plenty future democrats at the Southern Border ! Hurry get them in and get Castro for President!
Cam
Wow, your 3rd name change this month? Looks like they’re on to you.
It’s cute watching you try to desperately deflect from a guy funding racism.
Slim
Kangol that’s not an American name!
nm4047
Can you give me an example of an ‘American’ name. It was colonised by the British and the vast majority of surnames originate from Europe.
Goforit
Slim(e) You ignorant MAGA Maggot. Are you really that f*****g stupid? The “Americas” are not only the USA. There are multiple countries that make up North, Central and South America. The only names that might be considered “American” would be those of the indigenous people. Although it seems strangely appropriate now, I don’t recall Sitting Bull Trump, Geronimo Pence or even Running Bear “Slim”.
Jboo
America: a country so great even the haters won’t leave. Love and peace my uneducated democrat brothers!
Cam
Awww, the right wing troll tried to Vague Post.
You’re welcome to put up any defense of the guy funding hate. But wait, you can’t. So you try a random vague jab. Look, don’t blame us because you support a party that can’t be defended.
Aires the Ram
And the leftists..er…Dems, call themselves the “party of inclusion”. What a fu*c(k^ing joke.