Posted on 03/14/2021 3:36:49 AM PDT by Eleutheria5
Once the hub of Trump World in the US capital, with the former president gone it is in danger of becoming a white elephant
by David Smith in Washington Sat 13 Mar 2021 22.00 EST
244 Once it was like a second White House for the Maga crowd. Now it is in danger of becoming a white elephant.
Clobbered first by the coronavirus pandemic, then by its owner’s election defeat, the Trump International Hotel in Washington is reeling from a huge loss of income and prestige. For critics of the former US president, it is welcome proof of how quickly the city is moving on without him.
Trump hotel sales pitch boasts of profit potential from foreign governments Read more “It used to be the hub of Trump World but I can’t imagine who goes there now,” said Sally Quinn, a local author and journalist. “We don’t even have tourists yet in Washington. I can’t imagine most people staying there when they come. I don’t know anybody who goes there or has gone there.”
The hotel opened amid protests in the historic Old Post Office building on Pennsylvania Avenue, between the White House and US Capitol building, in September 2016 as Trump campaigned for the presidency.
For four years its opulent lobby thronged with diplomats, lobbyists and Trump family members. It was one of the few places in the US capital where “Make America great again” hats were bountiful. But one recent afternoon it seemed more reminiscent of the haunted hotel in Stanley Kubrick’s film The Shining.
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Well that cuts it. Sally Quinn doesn't know anybody that stayed at Trump's Hotel or none of the 75 million that voted for him.
Wow!
Double Bag Barf Alert!
Total Leftist Nonsense. Still more ComDem Insanity projected as truth.
Their arrogance will collapsed in total failure of their control, before this year is out.
Oooooo! Let’s take pictures of the barbed wire fence! Look! That soldier is scowling at me. He looks hungry. Don’t they feed him?
Silly Sally
No one goes there now......or hardly anywhere in Washington .....BECAUSE IT’S LOCKED DOWN.......sheesh!
No doubt my favorite place, The Willard, isn’t getting many visits either
I can’t imagine the customary school trip to DC to see the monuments and Smithsonian.....(Mommy why are all these soldiers here)
We canceled two trips to DC with our granddaughter last summer (rioting) and at Thanksgiving
By contrast, the Kremlin is poorly protected.
For goodness sakes!
Get the national guard over to that Trump Ho’tell
and wall it off with 12 foot chain link fences topped with concertina wire, Get out the crew served machine guns and post them at every corner of the fence!
We’ll keep Trump from having any business!
( We are NOW living in a banana Republic. )
Actually this hotel business has been for sale for years but the building itself is owned by the US Government and is leased by Trump hotels.
The Trump Hotel has been the best tenant the building has had for decades. If the hotel fails, it will again be a white elephant. I would keep it for its architectural merit. It might make an excellent headquarters building for a small federal agency that can live easily in a Victorian era noble pile of stone. One of the cultural or historical agencies might be a good fit, or perhaps a cluster of the worthiest of the innumerable boards and commissions that we all take for granted.
I'm thinking of things like the American Battle Monuments Commission, which supervises the U.S. military cemeteries and monuments overseas. Per the website, it has a civil service staff of about 80, of whom about 50 are overseas. That leaves about 30 people in the U.S. headquarters. They are currently in an office building on Clarendon Boulevard in Arlington, downtown and not especially close to Arlington Cemetery. There is no particular merit to this location; it's better than a basement suite in the Pentagon or cubicle maze in Crystal City, but there would be nothing lost by moving it. (Well, the staff would lose lunchtime access to the innumerable restaurants and bars along Clarendon Avenue, which is a millennial promenade.) The Old Post Office Pavilion would be an admirable site for such a team. Find ten more small organizations with some historical or cultural perspective -- there are many to choose from -- and it would fill the place.
But the hotel is fine as well. I hope it remains a hotel, as it public access and a much needed dining option in what is otherwise a federal ghetto.
Non of the hotels are doing well. Its a ghost town.
If it is inside the wire, it is not getting any business. Outside the wire is like a trickle of its normal self.
Sally Quinn was the second wife of Ben Bradlee, who was the editor of the Washington Post during the Pentagon Papers scandal, if I'm not mistaken. She must be in her 80s. She's from the era of lavish Democrat hostesses juicing up the gossip and connections between pols, donors and newspeople. I have a feeling the internet killed the hostessing cachet long ago.
Side factoid: Sally Quinn and Ben Bradlee bought the "Gray Gardens" mansion that had been owned by cousins of Jackie Kennedy and had fallen to ruin while the two old ladies lived there, and restored it. "Gray Gardens" was made into a documentary that is pathetic. It used to be on YouTube and maybe still it.
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