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Hamlette

(15,412 posts)
Fri Sep 16, 2016, 03:05 PM Sep 2016

Trump’s new hotel offers everything he claims to hate

https://www.washingtonpost.com/opinions/trumps-new-hotel-offers-everything-he-claims-to-hate/2016/09/16/fe08a18a-7c04-11e6-bd86-b7bbd53d2b5d_story.html?hpid=hp_no-name_opinion-card-d%3Ahomepage%2Fstory&utm_term=.09a906a5d594

It was a further reminder, as if one were needed, that the man who would take up residence just five blocks up Pennsylvania Avenue from his new hotel is a charlatan.

He campaigns on an “America First” theme — yet about the only American-made thing I could find in my hotel room was the small package of milk-chocolate Trump gold bullion ($25). He portrays himself as a populist friend of the little guy, yet he makes money renting out a presidential suite for $18,000 a night (a sign informed me that the maximum nightly rate for my room was $5,600).

He derides the “establishment” but makes his living catering to it. The hotel lobby features a Brioni boutique and 3-foot-tall bottles of Veuve Clicquot sharing a bar top with Dom Perignon; the room comes with a copy of Wine Spectator (“The Cheese Issue”); the hotel charges $15 to launder a shirt, $12 for Peanut M&Ms and $26 for a hamburger (sorry, no taco bowls).

In my room, I found a Trump logo bathmat and towels from India, bone china from Japan, Italian cutlery and tiles, two telephones from Malaysia, a Swiss refrigerator, German coffee cups, Trump soaps and lotions from Canada and, from China, all four lamps, coffee machine, bathroom scale, valet stand and shower cap. The hotel’s managing director is from France. Most hotel workers I met during my stay had Caribbean or African accents.
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Trump’s new hotel offers everything he claims to hate (Original Post) Hamlette Sep 2016 OP
$12 for M&Ms? Tommy_Carcetti Sep 2016 #1
at least the big size right? barbtries Sep 2016 #2
It won't flop. It will be popular with hedge fund and silicon new money Warpy Sep 2016 #3
sadly i fear you are right. barbtries Sep 2016 #4
I will Warpy Sep 2016 #5
keep it up Warpy! barbtries Sep 2016 #10
My husband never would and he travels to DC and NY often on business Hamlette Sep 2016 #6
i like your husband! barbtries Sep 2016 #9
I bet if he got elected he'd live in the presidential suite instead of the White House, tanyev Sep 2016 #7
He is the very definition of the word "tacky". smirkymonkey Sep 2016 #8

barbtries

(28,798 posts)
2. at least the big size right?
Fri Sep 16, 2016, 03:43 PM
Sep 2016

but, $25 for a chocolate bar.

i seriously hope that hotel flops hugely. i wouldn't stay in a place with his name on it, and that was true long before he ran for president.

Warpy

(111,270 posts)
3. It won't flop. It will be popular with hedge fund and silicon new money
Fri Sep 16, 2016, 04:32 PM
Sep 2016

as well as with international travelers being sent there by lobbyists who want to impress them.

However, like everything Trump, it is all surface glitz with corners cut where they can't be seen.

Warpy

(111,270 posts)
5. I will
Fri Sep 16, 2016, 04:39 PM
Sep 2016

Yeah, I could afford a week at those prices in one of the smaller, lower floor rooms. However, i could afford a month at a more reasonable, older hotel with half the glitz and ten times the charm.

Even if I didn't despise that man's pandering to the worst people in this country in an attempt to grab political power, I'd refuse to stay in any of his places because they're overpriced and, well, tacky.

Hamlette

(15,412 posts)
6. My husband never would and he travels to DC and NY often on business
Fri Sep 16, 2016, 04:42 PM
Sep 2016

in fact, when he is in NY, he insists the cab NOT drive by Trump Towers and he hates Trump and his buildings so much. And, he is not all that political and he has been doing this (with the cab) for years.

barbtries

(28,798 posts)
9. i like your husband!
Fri Sep 16, 2016, 06:02 PM
Sep 2016

i 've been the same way for years. my sister stayed in his hotel when we vacationed together in Vegas. i felt uncomfortable visiting her in her room. never would i take a room there.

tanyev

(42,564 posts)
7. I bet if he got elected he'd live in the presidential suite instead of the White House,
Fri Sep 16, 2016, 04:56 PM
Sep 2016

and send the $18,000 a night bill to the American taxpayers. I sure hope we never find out.

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