Engineers Members Fearing Gold Bathroom Fixtures And General Donald-Accoutremental Tackiness

The New York Post has picked up the story first reported by Evan Rothman: The Donald's attempt to purchase historic Engineers and turn it into Trump National Long Island Sound.

But the Association for A Better Engineers (ABE), a group of the club's older members, wrote to the directors demanding they limit the vote on Trump's proposal to 122 "legacy" members. The ABE wants to exclude younger members who didn't have voting rights until last fall, when some decided to buy full memberships.

Larry Hutcher, a lawyer for the ABE, told us, "These people shouldn't be permitted to vote. The board proposes that they be permitted to do so. You can't let people who have no vested interest in the club vote."

He said the ABE members "want the club to remain an equity-owned club. Mr. Trump can promise gold fountains in the bathroom, gold waterfalls and perfectly cut blades of grass. It doesn't matter, we don't want it."

But Trump responded to the uproar in his trademark style, telling Page Six, "Those people are losers who don't want to see anything good happen. Those people aren't looking for quality, and probably won't be members for very long."

Trump told us the deal "is going along very nicely. The members love the deal. The real question is whether or not I want to do the deal."

Oh please Donald, reconsider!