‘Don’s Johns’ portable toilet co. angry at Trump inauguration cover up
Carlos Garcia Jan 13, 2017 6:20 pm
‘Don’s Johns’ portable toilet co. angry at Trump inauguration cover up
A row of portable restrooms, with the name “Don’s Johns” covered up, is seen on Capitol Hill in Washington, Friday, Jan. 13, 2017. Virginia-based Don’s Johns calls itself the Washington area’s top provider of portable toilet rentals, but the name apparently strikes too close to home for inaugural organizers. Workers have placed blue tape over the brand name on dozens of portable restrooms installed near the Capitol for the inauguration. (AP Photo/Matthew Daly)
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The owner of the company that is providing portable toilets for the inauguration for President-elect Donald Trump is angry because someone is covering up their company name name with blue tape:
A portable restroom, with the name “Don’s Johns” covered up, is seen on Capitol Hill in Washington, Friday, Jan. 13, 2017. Virginia-based Don’s Johns calls itself the Washington area’s top provider of portable toilet rentals, but the name apparently strikes too close to home for inaugural organizers. Workers have placed blue tape over the brand name on dozens of portable restrooms installed near the Capitol for the inauguration. (AP Photo/Matthew Daly)
(AP Photo/Matthew Daly)
The cover up is likely to have something to do with the company’s name: “Don’s Johns.”
Workers for the Virginia company were surprised to find that someone was putting blue tape over the name every morning, according to the New York Daily News. An employee of the company explained, “We knew they were being covered up, because we’re delivering them there every night and they saw it. We wondered who was doing it. Now we know.”
Apparently someone doesn’t want the name “Don’s Johns” to be associated with the president-elect’s name, Donald. The presidential transition team did respond to a request asking if they were behind the cover up.
The CEO of the company, Rob Weghorst, is unhappy about the whole deal and is telling his employees to rip the tape off, saying, “We like to have our names on our units.”
The inauguration is set for Friday, January 20th, and many protesters are expected to attend in addition to the thousands of well-wishers. It’s very likely many of them will find themselves having to utilize the “Don’s Johns,” whether they can see the logo or not.
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My #1 is named John so he gets annoyed when he sees them around town or on the back of trucks. It must be a guy thing.
Anyway, I think it's more of a class thing....he wants it to be elegant. Nothing screams tacky than "don's johns" printed on outhouses, IMO. And the outhouses are necessary at events like this on the Mall. I'll bet he brings in the very nice trailer bathrooms for those in the ticketed areas.
There will be water bottles handed out and souvenirs as well. I snagged a couple inaugural pins at the last one I attended.
That is so weird. If you don't like the name of the potty-people, just get someone else.
It was done out of respect I believe by the park rangers. I did find an article about it on a liberal site that said that the company did it because they didn't want their business to be associated with Trump, which of course was fake news.
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Don's Johns pretty much have the monopoly in the area, tigs, and I suspect there is already a contract in place with the federal government to use them, probably through GSA.
Don's Johns definitely has the monopoly here. Until I was in my teens I didn't know Don's Johns was a brand name. I thought that is what they were called. Sort of like Kleenex.
Wouldn't a compromise be to put a "provided by" sign above the name, and maybe a phone number below the name?
A stencil and a couple cans of spray paint should do it.
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