President Trump's company pursues second Washington hotel

[highplainsdem]

Source: WaPo

President Trump’s company is actively seeking to open a second Washington hotel as part of a planned nationwide expansion, potentially creating another venue where he stands to benefit financially from customers doing business in the nation’s capital.

Representatives of the Trump Organization, now run by the president’s adult sons, have inquired in recent months about converting one of several boutique, medium-sized hotels in upscale neighborhoods in and near downtown and reopening it under the company’s new Scion brand.

Unlike the luxurious Trump International Hotel on Pennsylvania Avenue, which Trump and his family own, the more affordable Scion hotels would be owned by other developers who would pay the Trumps’ company for licensing rights and management.

“They’re trying hard to do Scion in this market and they’re trying hard in other markets also,” said developer Brian Friedman, who owns the Carlyle Hotel in Dupont Circle and Kimpton Glover Park.

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Read more: https://www.washingtonpost.com/politics/president-trumps-company-pursues-second-washington-hotel/2017/03/29/dfd6ee8e-0f42-11e7-9d5a-a83e627dc120_story.html

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How thoughtful of them. A place to stay in DC for people who want to flatter Trump and funnel money to him, but who can't quite afford the Trump International Hotel.

[Bernardo de La Paz]

1. Grifters. The brand should be dead by now. None of his base can legitimately afford a room. . nt

[AJT]

2. But rich people or foreign governments who want

favors can.

[Bernardo de La Paz]

3. That's what makes the tRump gang grifters. . . nt

[AJT]

4. Just curious, is there a difference between a grifter

and a con artist?

[Bernardo de La Paz]

6. I checked online, and it appears no diff

I thought grifters were basically politicians and their families who drained money in various ways out of the public purse and by benefiting from public notoriety as a result of political office.

I first heard of it in context of the Palin grifters from Alaska.

But the online definitions pretty much equate it with "con man".

I defer to professional lexicographers.

But Don the Con and his family gang are definitely grifters.

[notdarkyet]

8. They're something for sure. Not sure what. Despicable, deplorable, souless

Grifters.

[dalton99a]

5. Their greed is bottomless.

[Flaleftist]

7. Interesting

So a CEO could hold conventions at his various hotels where they pay for rooms for hundreds or thousands of their employees. They would basically be putting millions into his pockets. Something tells me we will see this from companies that benefit from his policies.