A small business owner from B.C.’s Fraser Valley is speaking out after being review-bombed by confused supporters of U.S. president-elect Donald Trump this week.
Keri McKinley told CTV News she was stunned to see a series of negative ratings for her Abbotsford floral shop, Everbloom Designs, appearing on Facebook and Google over recent days.
She also received some very irate private messages.
“Some of it I can’t repeat, honestly,” McKinley said. “I didn’t really understand at first what was happening.”
It didn’t take long to connect the dots.
As it turns out, the owner of another floral shop in Tennessee – the similarly named Everbloom Design, singular – had riled up Trump supporters by announcing she would no longer welcome them in her business.
“I need to create a safe place for me, my staff, and my family,” the owner reportedly said, in a social media video that has since been deleted.
As a result, the online reviews for McKinley’s Everbloom Designs now range from “A …