With the door of the White House still swinging behind him, Donald Trump was waved goodbye by a city he once described as “a hellhole.”
STIB/MVIB, the public transport operator in Brussels, tweeted “The hellhole says goodbye,” with a waving hand emoji to mark Trump’s final day in office. Pictured was tram 44 (Barack Obama was the 44th U.S. president), which runs from Montgomery to leafy Tervuren, and the tweet also contained the number 46 — an automatic addition when tweeting the #InaugurationDay hashtag and not a reference to the bus that goes from Moortebeek to Glibert.
In January 2016, when Trump was a presidential candidate, he said that living in Brussels is like living in “a hellhole” because of the supposed lack of “assimilation” of the Muslim population.
“You go to Brussels — I was in Brussels a long time ago, 20 years ago, so beautiful, everything is so beautiful — it’s like living in a hellhole right now,” he said in a TV interview with FOX Business Network.
“There is something going on Maria,” he told FOX’s Maria Bartiromo. “Go to Brussels, go to Paris… There’s something going on and it’s not good. Where they want sharia law… there has to be some assimilation.”
Brussels residents took to Twitter to slam Trump for his description of the city, posting pictures of parks, famous landmarks such as the Atomium and the Grand Place, and local delicacies like chocolates and waffles.
