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Related: Editorials & Other Articles, Issue Forums, Alliance Forums, Region ForumsTrump's DC hotel hosted an event this week to pitch rooms to foreign diplomats
Rosalind Helderman @PostRozTrump's DC hotel hosted an event this week to pitch rooms to foreign diplomats. Via @OConnellPostbiz @marycjordan https://t.co/yOK2cH8RCy
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.
Some attendees won raffle prizes among them overnight stays at other Trump properties around the world allowing them to become better acquainted with the business holdings of the new commander in chief.
To many of the guests at the reception Tuesday, accepting an invitation to tour the $212 million hotel and check out the $20,000-a-night, 6,300-square-foot town house suite seemed like a good idea. They spoke admiringly about the renovation and left with a goody bag of chocolates and a brochure. It listed the choices of accommodations and meeting rooms and expounded on the locations striking prominence at historical moments such as the Inauguration Day parade.
Believe me, all the delegations will go there, said one Middle Eastern diplomat who recently toured the hotel and booked an overseas visitor...
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Mary Jordan ?@marycjordan 4h4 hours ago
Diplomats wonder: can spending money at Trump hotel buy presidential favor? A "Stay for play" in Washington?
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Trump's DC hotel hosted an event this week to pitch rooms to foreign diplomats (Original Post)
bigtree
Nov 2016
OP
Corrupt Trump hawking rooms to foreign nationals--Are those rooms bugged for Vladimir?
TheBlackAdder
Nov 2016
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TheBlackAdder
(28,201 posts)1. Corrupt Trump hawking rooms to foreign nationals--Are those rooms bugged for Vladimir?
Wellstone ruled
(34,661 posts)2. Get use to it,
just part and parcel of the new Trump reign terror. It is all about the money baby. Biggest Scam Job in the History of the USA. And If one did not see this coming,what can one say.