Hollywood, Florida motel owner Richard Clavet, whose eponymous establishment Richard’s Motel has since 1990 been a hub for tourists from his native Quebec, tells the CBC that business has been shit since Clavet’s Orange Jesus started harassing Canada and emptily threatening US annexation.
“Right now, the places are being filled up with Americans. I just wish I had more Canadians,” said Clavet, who the CBC describes as “an ambassador for a French-speaking enclave in the beachside community north of Miami,” with his main motel and several other properties offering Quebec TV channels, French-language magazines, and regular visits by a poutine food truck. It’s not clear if the beating he’s taking from his countrymen ghosting is directly attributable to Clavet’s support for Trump or if he’s simply just one particularly deserving casualty of the larger Canadian boycott of Florida described in the article, but either way he’s feeling a little extra victimized.
“This is not Trump’s country, this is Little Quebec,” the CBC’s article quotes Clavet as having said to his “uneasy guests,” evidently trying to disown his vote. “I’ve seen a customer dropping a $1,000 deposit to choose to go to Cuba instead,” offended that they would go to a communist state or Mexico. “They’re boycotting Trump,” Clavet continued, adding that he’s worried the few Quebecois he has now are going to come back next year. “They’re all worrying, you know, ‘What’s gonna happen? Are we gonna go to war?” he said, insisting that they’re “way overreacting.”