Ka-ching ka-ching
Lying corrupt president announces plans to exploit his office to expand his business.
Only days after Donald Trump took the oath of office, the head of his hotel-management company outlined hopes for an ambitious expansion across the U.S., raising new questions about potential conflicts between his business and the presidency.
Trump Hotels Chief Executive Officer Eric Danziger suggested the company’s broad U.S. ambitions while saying it shelved plans for expansion in China, where the president’s comments have already led to rocky diplomatic relations.
“There are 26 major metropolitan areas in the U.S., and we’re in five,” Danziger said after a panel discussion Tuesday at the Americas Lodging Investment Summit in Los Angeles. “I don’t see any reason that we couldn’t be in all of them eventually.”
Especially when the Oval Office is such a good place for doing infomercials!
Meanwhile, new membership fees at Trump’s Mar-A-Lago club have doubled to $200,000, Bernd Lembcke, its managing director, said in a Wednesday e-mail, first reported by CNBC. The Palm Beach, Florida resort, which Trump has called “The Winter White House,” was the location of the president’s New Year’s Eve celebration with family and supporters. He tweeted a photo of himself writing his inaugural speech at the resort last week.
Well of course they have. After all, it’s now the President’s club, so membership naturally has to be a lot more expensive, or else why did he bother? If he can’t sell the celebrity-value of his job then what’s it all been for??
Even if his business activities are considered legal, they certainly heighten the perceived conflict, according to Wendy Patrick, who teaches business ethics at San Diego State University.
“Although he is now officially the leader of the free world, Donald Trump remains both a businessman and a brand,” Patrick said in an e-mail. “The fact that the hotel chain that bears his name is seeking to expand within the United States raises questions of both law and ethics.”
There is too much filth to keep up with.
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130,000 marched here in Seattle on Saturday. I don’t think this would be a very hospitable city for him.
Certainly not if I have anything to say about it!
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But …but …but …Bill Clinton sold nights in the Lincoln bedroom!!!!
Trump’s gotta cash in while he can. With rising sea levels, Mar-a-Lago’s looking at 210 flood days a year within 30 years. Of course, climate change is all “bullshit” and a “Chinese hoax” according to Trump, who’s busy scrubbing government websites of any mention of it. A good hurricane-induced flood couldn’t happen to a nicer guy.
I hate him.
Wendy Patrick of San Diego State should know that DT is officially the POTUS. “Leader of the free world” is an unofficial title which almost no one in the rest of the free world would grant him.
Excuse me?
Yes, that was a fatuous thing to say. I wanted to omit it from the quoted passage, but I had to keep it so that the next bit would make sense. No there is no such thing as “the leader of the free world” and it’s repulsively Trumpesque for any USian to use that phrase of another USian.