No room at the Inn

[mercuryblues]

President Trump apparently can’t get a hotel room in Hamburg.


The White House waited too long to book the mogul-in-chief any accommodations for the G20 Summit this week, leaving it uncertain where the leader of the free world will be sleeping, according to a German news report.
The Hamburger Abendblatt reported that when the U.S. government tried to find Trump a room in Hamburg, it discovered that every luxury hotel in the city was already booked — thanks, largely, to G20.
The Abendblatt and BuzzFeed News called some of the ritziest hotels in Hamburg to see who had them, and whether Trump had found a room.

http://www.msn.com/en-us/news/world/president-apparently-couldnt-get-a-hotel-room-for-g20/ar-BBDTBUb?ocid=spartandhp

I can hear fox news now. Trump just like Jesus

[atreides1]

1. The US has a Consulate there

It should have enough room for him and his security detail...the rest of the slags can either find their own accommodations or fly back to the US...and that includes Melania!!!

[mercuryblues]

2. He only hires the best. LOL

[MineralMan]

3. The entourage that follows a US President on international trips

is larger than most people think. Way larger. There are going to be people sleeping on floors over this error in planning.

Trump, no doubt, fired everyone in the White House Travel Office when he took over, not realizing that those jobs were not political, but experience-based.

Neither Trump nor anyone on his staff knows shit about practical stuff like arranging for a large entourage to travel to Germany. The folks he fired did, though. And so, we have the situation we have, with everyone scrambling to make do.

Normally, the US delegation to these summit-type events takes over an entire hotel. President and his immediate staff gets a floor. Security gets the entire floor above and below that floor. Everyone else gets slotted into rooms on other floors. Everything is arranged in advance, including a hiring a fleet of vehicles that are reserved for the entourage's use. Every national delegation and its entourage does this as a matter of course. Not Trump, though. They forgot or didn't know what was involved.

I'm betting the White House Travel Office has only a fraction of the staff it had under the Obama administration, and most of them are hires from the Trump organization who had no idea what they were facing.

Sorry, Trump. Enjoy your stay in Hamburg!

[3catwoman3]

4. Are not things like this typically planned...

...many, many months in advance?

Who's minding the store? No one.

[MineralMan]

5. Here's a link to why this happened:

https://www.democraticunderground.com/10029294755

[mercuryblues]

6. is he tired of winning?