Trump hotel hikes rates from $400 to $2225 per night to cash in on inauguration

[Demovictory9]

https://www.politico.com/news/2020/12/31/trump-hotel-biden-inauguration-453168

[babylonsister]

1. Ha! Of course he did!

I hope no one books.

[RockRaven]

4. Every asshole looking for a pardon will book a dozen rooms.....

Like the Saudis did, renting whole floors worth of unoccupied rooms in Trump hotels for weeks at a time.

[2naSalit]

18. ++++++++++++++++++++++!

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]

2. Who is paying?

Who is underwriting Trump Thug Central?

[RockRaven]

3. Renting rooms or buying memberships at Trump properties are BRIBES. This is a major fucking

loophole in how emoluments are handled and should be remedied by new legislation if we get a Senate majority.

[SCantiGOP]

7. Never was a problem before

All past Presidents put their assets in blind trusts and completely stepped away from their businesses. You couldn’t “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]

10. Which is why we need legislation. We cannot assume future ones will revert to prior norms.

The norms Trump has broken will be enthusiastically exploited by the next, unfortunately more competent, Repuke POTUS.

[SCantiGOP]

11. Oh, I agree

But we have never had anyone close to this corrupt.
What I don’t know how to fix is the Imperial Presidency. It has evolved that the other two branches won’t/can’t check the the Executive. Why didn’t Congress and the courts stop his lawlessness?

[RockRaven]

15. Yeah... Congress might have if both houses were controlled by the opposite party, but they

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]

5. Is that what they're calling the Roach Hotel these days?

[Hekate]

6. Why on earth would anyone coming to Biden's inaugural want to stay there in the first place?!

[Blue_true]

9. Trump will get his rooms rented. Lots of hanger-ons

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.

[mitch96]

12. +1 !

[milestogo]

17. Good question.

[Bev54]

8. Well it will only be republican suckers that will

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]

13. It is going to be a virtual inauguration

So it is unlikely that there is enough demand for the hotel rooms.

Another miscalculation and incompetence on Trump's part.

[Demovictory9]

14. Is it? I heard of folks planning to attend

[babylonsister]

16. I've heard that, too. Virtual works-it has to. nt