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Related: Editorials & Other Articles, Issue Forums, Alliance Forums, Region ForumsTrump promoting his DC hotel to diplomats to enrich himself as they try to curry favor
From the Washington Post:
https://www.washingtonpost.com/business/capitalbusiness/2016/11/18/9da9c572-ad18-11e6-977a-1030f822fc35_story.html
About 100 foreign diplomats, from Brazil to Turkey, gathered at the Trump International Hotel this week to sip Trump-branded champagne, dine on sliders and hear a sales pitch about the U.S. president-elects newest hotel.
The event for the diplomatic community, held one week after the election, was in the Lincoln Library, a junior ballroom with 16-foot ceilings and velvet drapes that is also available for rent.
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Back when many expected Trump to lose the election, speculation was rife that business would suffer at the hotels, condos and golf courses that bear his name. Now, those venues offer the prospect of something else: a chance to curry favor or access with the next president.
Perhaps nowhere is that possibility more obvious than Trumps newly renovated hotel a few blocks from the White House, on Pennsylvania Avenue. Rooms sold out quickly for the inauguration, many for five-night minimums priced at five times the normal rate, according to the hotels manager.
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Why wouldnt I stay at his hotel blocks from the White House, so I can tell the new president, I love your new hotel! Isnt it rude to come to his city and say, I am staying at your competitor? said one Asian diplomat.
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The event for the diplomatic community, held one week after the election, was in the Lincoln Library, a junior ballroom with 16-foot ceilings and velvet drapes that is also available for rent.
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Back when many expected Trump to lose the election, speculation was rife that business would suffer at the hotels, condos and golf courses that bear his name. Now, those venues offer the prospect of something else: a chance to curry favor or access with the next president.
Perhaps nowhere is that possibility more obvious than Trumps newly renovated hotel a few blocks from the White House, on Pennsylvania Avenue. Rooms sold out quickly for the inauguration, many for five-night minimums priced at five times the normal rate, according to the hotels manager.
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Why wouldnt I stay at his hotel blocks from the White House, so I can tell the new president, I love your new hotel! Isnt it rude to come to his city and say, I am staying at your competitor? said one Asian diplomat.
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He's already bringing the Trump touch to Washington corruption, and it's going to be YUUUUGE.
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Trump promoting his DC hotel to diplomats to enrich himself as they try to curry favor (Original Post)
highplainsdem
Nov 2016
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riversedge
(70,239 posts)1. Joy Reid just tweeted about this-so will post here.
Joy Reid ?@JoyAnnReid 5h5 hours ago
Will those who had such determined umbrage about email servers and the Clinton Foundation get exercised about this?
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tanyev
(42,559 posts)2. I'd say it's shocking, but it's actually a pretty predictable Trumpism.
I'm just waiting to find out that he's going to live there instead of the White House and will bill the taxpayers $3,000 a night.
BeyondGeography
(39,374 posts)3. Cross-marketing
Why do you hate capitalism?