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Related: Editorials & Other Articles, Issue Forums, Alliance Forums, Region ForumsTrump’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=.09a906a5d594It 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 hotels managing director is from France. Most hotel workers I met during my stay had Caribbean or African accents.
Tommy_Carcetti
(43,182 posts)Those better be some damn good M&Ms.
barbtries
(28,798 posts)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)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.
barbtries
(28,798 posts)someone out there has to refuse to stay on principle!
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.
barbtries
(28,798 posts)tacky and parading his narcissism at every turn. yuck
Hamlette
(15,412 posts)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)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)and send the $18,000 a night bill to the American taxpayers. I sure hope we never find out.
smirkymonkey
(63,221 posts)Nothing about him is subtle or tasteful.