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Related: Editorials & Other Articles, Issue Forums, Alliance Forums, Region ForumsTrump hotel hikes rates from $400 to $2225 per night to cash in on inauguration
https://www.politico.com/news/2020/12/31/trump-hotel-biden-inauguration-453168babylonsister
(171,178 posts)I hope no one books.
RockRaven
(15,254 posts)Like the Saudis did, renting whole floors worth of unoccupied rooms in Trump hotels for weeks at a time.
2naSalit
(87,487 posts)Yup. They're the only ones who would stay there anyway. Doubt if anyone attending the event would have booked a room there. It keeps the riffraff out too, you know those beastly boys with their gunz.
OAITW r.2.0
(25,101 posts)Who is underwriting Trump Thug Central?
RockRaven
(15,254 posts)loophole in how emoluments are handled and should be remedied by new legislation if we get a Senate majority.
SCantiGOP
(13,883 posts)All past Presidents put their assets in blind trusts and completely stepped away from their businesses. You couldnt bribe a POTUS through his business because he would never know it.
And remember, trump promised to do this during the campaign and up to the Inauguration.
RockRaven
(15,254 posts)The norms Trump has broken will be enthusiastically exploited by the next, unfortunately more competent, Repuke POTUS.
SCantiGOP
(13,883 posts)But we have never had anyone close to this corrupt.
What I dont know how to fix is the Imperial Presidency. It has evolved that the other two branches wont/cant check the the Executive. Why didnt Congress and the courts stop his lawlessness?
RockRaven
(15,254 posts)seem to be content with a unaccountable, lawbreaking dictator so long as it is one of their own party. A Dem (bare, technical) majority in the Senate will test if our party is willing to declare "enough!" or not...
Blue Owl
(50,941 posts)Hekate
(91,469 posts)Blue_true
(31,261 posts)don't have political party preferences. Lots of them have scads of money. The location of the hotel is what they will be looking at, not the rates.
milestogo
(16,829 posts)Bev54
(10,162 posts)get caught in that trap. Most of the ceremony will be virtual and I am sure Biden does not actually care where Matt Schlapp or any other of those imbeciles go, as long as they do not attend his inauguration.
AmericanCanuck
(1,102 posts)So it is unlikely that there is enough demand for the hotel rooms.
Another miscalculation and incompetence on Trump's part.