Mar-a-Lago called back. She had an interview. Then: nothing.

“I was very disappointed. At that time, I really needed a job,” said Coleman, now 50, who works at a clothing store. “I had the qualifications. The interview went great. But they never even did the common courtesy to call me and tell me why I wasn’t hired.”

As the Post sagely notes, Mar-a-Lago isn't the only tourist destination that relies heavily on seasonal foreign workers, since employers have a tough time getting American citizens to take these low-paying, high-stress jobs that disappear by spring. But Trump seems to acknowledge the nuances that make immigration reform so difficult only when his own business interests are at stake. He loves to stand in front of a crowd and bemoan the evils of greedy, faceless corporate behemoths who move their factories abroad in the pursuit of marginally lower labor costs. For him, though? This is just business. This is just the way the world works:

“It’s very, very hard to get people. But other hotels do the exact same thing. . . . This is a procedure. It’s part of the law,” he said during a Republican candidates’ debate in March 2016, after Sen. Marco Rubio (Fla.) criticized him for using foreigners at Mar-a-Lago. “I take advantage of that. There’s nothing wrong with it. We have no choice.”

Actually, there is a choice! If hiring American workers really is important to him, and if he really believes it's the only right thing to do, the resort he owns could put more of an effort into doing so than placing an abbreviation-laden classified ad in a print newspaper for two days, and then throwing its hands up helplessly and claiming that it tried its best. The club could even—I hope you're sitting down for this—offer to pay them more, setting an example for the type of corporate patriotic benevolence he ostensibly believes would make this country great again. (For the record, Mar-a-Lago dues run a cool $14,000 each year, which doesn't include a one-time $200,000 initiation fee. I'm not an accountant, but I seriously doubt that cash flow is an issue for this place.)

Donald Trump's resort isn't doing any of those things, though, because Donald Trump either doesn't understand that his own business experience proves that enacting meaningful immigration reform is more complicated than his "BUY AMERICAN, HIRE AMERICAN" exhortations would suggest, or because he doesn't actually give a shit about the downtrodden American worker whom he so vigorously pledges to defend. (Or both.)

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