The War on Coronavirus Comes to Trump Properties
Source: NYT
Reeling from the global fallout of the coronavirus pandemic, President Trumps family business has cut back hotel operations, closed some golf courses and restaurants and shed dozens of workers all while pushing to keep other properties open and promote them on social media.
In recent days, the Trump Organization cut staff from hotels in New York and Washington, halted new reservations at a hotel overlooking the Las Vegas Strip and closed golf courses in Los Angeles and the Miami area, according to people with knowledge of the matter. It also closed the Mar-a-Lago club in Florida, which normally would be at a peak right now, with regular seasonal visits by Mr. Trump himself.
The cutbacks, expected to continue in coming days, were a last resort, a company executive said, as the priority had been keeping thousands of employees and contract workers on the job. The company has a portfolio of more than a dozen golf clubs and at least partially owns or operates five-star hotels in Chicago, Hawaii, Las Vegas, New York, Vancouver and Washington, as well as Ireland and Scotland.
Generally, the company has folded the tent only when local authorities mandated it, despite a growing national urgency to limit social gatherings and close nonessential businesses. In an interview, Eric Trump, the presidents son who manages the family business, said the company was trying to limit shutdowns.
Read more: https://www.nytimes.com/2020/03/20/business/trump-businesses-coronavirus.html
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kimbutgar
(21,188 posts)Unfortunately he will try to find ways to get kickbacks and monetize the pandemic for his personal benefit.
You can only order masks from the government if you give a donation to my campaign. You know thats company. Or markup the masks and resell them to states with him taking the mark up,
machoneman
(4,010 posts)Sympathy for the little folks who get burned but it's like the parable of the good man who shoulders the poisonous snake across the flooded river banks, only to get bit on the other side. Like Trump, you knew what I was.......a real snake!
jb5150
(1,183 posts)are the bedbugs.
uppityperson
(115,679 posts)Baitball Blogger
(46,757 posts)Dem2theMax
(9,653 posts)SeattleVet
(5,479 posts)That's why he's been so responsive and relatively serious about this for the past few days. I've noticed quite a turnaround in his rhetoric from '5 cases and it will all disappear' from a couple of weeks ago, now that it's hitting him in the wallet.
Shit just became real to him!
Totally Tunsie
(10,885 posts)He'll make it pay off.