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Fox News reports: President Trump slammed New York Times columnist Bret Stephens on Tuesday night, suggesting he’s “loaded up” with bedbugs — not his properties. After the president floated the idea of hosting next year’s G-7 summit at his Doral resort outside of Miami, Fla., a report resurfaced that this resort had settled a lawsuit in 2017 after a New …

The Hill reports: President Trump on Tuesday denied there were bedbugs at his Doral golf resort in Miami after he indicated he plans to hold next year’s Group of Seven (G-7) summit there. The president accused “Radical Left Democrats” of spreading a “false and nasty rumor” that the property had a bedbug problem. Trump’s critics began mocking the idea on …

Law Newz reports: A New Jersey man has filed a lawsuit against Trump National Doral Miami after he says he was bitten by bed bugs while staying at the resort, The Palm Peach Post reports. The lawsuit says he was bitten while staying at the resort’s Jack Nicklaus building. Trump National Doral Miami is owned by the Trump Organization. The …

Times Square’s AMC Empire 25, which bills itself as the nation’s busiest movie theater, is once again infested with bedbugs, forcing the glitzy premiere of Maze Runner to relocate across the street. More from the AV Club: In what was possibly a failed marketing stunt or an act of corporate sabotage, the New York City premiere of Maze Runner: The Scorch …

For many years, a familiar sight for Manhattanites has been the giant inflatable rat stationed outside of businesses and construction sites using non-union labor. But in order to capitalize on the city’s eternal bedbug terror, the rat has been retired. Gothamist reports: Asylum spotted this giant inflatable bedbug outside the Affinia Hotel in Midtown Manhattan. Let us hasten to report …

The bedbug scare gets the Taiwanese news animation treatment. (Via – Gothamist)

Local NYC news was outside a Times Square theater last night where folks from a company called Seat Defenders were hawking plastic sacks intended to protect moviegoers from bedbugs. $17.95 for a package of 12 seat covers. One Times Square theater closed for two days over the summer to fumigate after patrons complained of being covered with bedbug bites.

The New York Times reports that while the city remains at DefCon 1 over the bedbug panic, at least we can rest assured that the blood suckers don’t carry any diseases. Bats are sources of rabies, Ebola, SARS and Nipah virus. And other biting bugs are disease carriers — mosquitoes for malaria and West Nile, ticks for Lyme and babesiosis, …

On my way to lunch I saw a beautiful carpet lying against a light pole on Second Avenue. I thought, “Wow, somebody is throwing out a very expensive rug.” And I almost walked over to look at it! Ack!