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Dan Bilefsky and Claire Barthelemy, “Donald Trump Finds New City to Insult: Brussels” (2016)
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Dan Bilefsky and Claire Barthelemy, “Donald Trump Finds New City to Insult: Brussels” (2016)

[…] “Now Donald J. Trump has upset the already beleaguered people of Belgium, calling its capital, Brussels, ‘a hellhole.’ ” […]

“A Twitter user using the name Berlaymonster (Berlaymont is the headquarters complex of the European Commission in Brussels) posted what appeared to be a modified version of the Wikipedia entry for Dante’s “Inferno.” The list of chapters showed Limbo, Lust and Gluttony. The fourth chapter? Brussels.” […]  —The New York Times (January 27, 2016)

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Berlaymonster, Twitter, January 27, 2016

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“Dan Bilefsky and Claire Barthelemy, “Donald Trump Finds New City to Insult: Brussels” (2016).” Dante Today: Citings and Sightings of Dante’s Works in Contemporary Culture. Elizabeth Coggeshall and Arielle Saiber, eds. January 30, 2016. https://www.dantetoday.org/sightings/dan-bilefsky-and-claire-barthelemy-donald-trump-finds-new-city-to-insult-brussels-2016/.