ENTERTAINMENT/TRUMP AS PRESIDENT: “West Hollywood badly wants to remove President Trump’s star from the Hollywood Walk of Fame. One problem: The star isn’t in West Hollywood. Nonetheless, the City Council there unanimously approved a largely symbolic resolution on Monday [8-6-18] night urging that the president’s star be eliminated from the Walk of Fame, which stretches several blocks of Hollywood Boulevard and Vine Street. In passing the resolution, council members called on their counterparts in the City of Los Angeles, which manages the public sidewalk tourist attraction, and the Hollywood Chamber of Commerce, which selects who receives a star, to remove Mr. Trump’s. His star, which he received in 2007, is currently roped off and covered after a man with a pickax destroyed it last month. It is expected to be repaired. The City Council listed several reasons for such a removal. They include a recording of Mr. Trump during an ‘Access Hollywood’ interview in 2005 that captured him boasting about sexually assaulting women and how he could get away with ‘anything’ with them because of his celebrity. They also include actions taken as president, including the now-reversed decision of separating children and parents under a ‘zero-tolerance’ policy on border enforcement and the withdrawal of the United States from the Paris climate accord.”
-Matthew Haag, “West Hollywood Urges Removal of Trump’s Walk of Fame Star (It’s a Long Shot),” The New York Times online, August 7, 2018