A night at Trump's D.C. hotel, the GOP hot spot emptied by coronavirus by weinbergersa, janawinter
In better times, it might be impressive when a security guard you’ve never met before opens the door of a five-star hotel and greets you by name. It might mean that you’re important, or at least that someone is trying to make you feel important. But during the coronavirus pandemic, this sort of personalized greeting comes with the sinking realization that you may well be the only guest to have checked in that day.
The hotel has also faced a slew of lawsuits, and allegations that the president is using his office to benefit his business, particularly since it has attracted foreign guests who are in Washington to lobby the Trump administration. We were later told we were the only ones on our floor, and no one was on the floors below us. The floors above us, where the more expensive suites are located, did have some guests, but it was unclear how many.
Who does stay at the Trump International Hotel in the middle of a pandemic, other than a couple of curious reporters? From Instagram there are clues to some recent guests, and not surprisingly, they are some of the same characters who frequented the establishment pre-pandemic. In an interview with Yahoo News, Hill said the manager told him that things were starting to pick up, and that occupancy had doubled week over week. Though if that doubling is from, say, two to four guests, or four to eight, is impossible to know.
Yet Hill thinks that ultimately, the Trump hotel, with its cavernous interior, is better situated than others to come back once the lockdown is ended. Unlike other hotel power bars in Washington, the Trump hotel has enough space to keep the tables far apart. “At most places there isn’t a lot of space. There is at Trump. Everything is spread out.”
Higgins, who has previously raised hackles for filming inside a gas chamber at Auschwitz to make the case for a strong national security, said in the Instagram video that he and other congressmen would be gathering at the Capitol the next day to push to open the economy. “We have absolutely no knowledge of this and would caution you [not] to publish baseless claims made by Mr. Everson in his ‘newsletter,’” wrote Patricia Tang, the hotel’s director of marketing and sales, in response to a question about Everson’s claims.
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