Another business blow to Donald J. Trump. It appears that nobody wants to stay at his namesake hotel in Washington, D.C.
Jane Mayer, a staff writer at the New Yorker, just tweeted a video from inside the hotel’s main lobby… and it’s empty. Like, completely. There’s not a soul in sight, despite loud music pulsating through the speaker system like it’s some super hopping nightclub.
“Looks like they drained the swamp,” Mayer tweeted.
The video has already received almost 325,000 views, 900 comments, 3,000 retweets, and 15,0000 likes.
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?Trump Hotel, DC – Looks like they drained the swamp pic.twitter.com/dgDg3HxRbp
— Jane Mayer (@JaneMayerNYer) January 27, 2021
Earlier this month, the Washington Post reported that the Trump Organization has actually been shopping its lease on the 263-room luxury hotel for the past year, hoping to unload it to the tune of $500 million, but the real-estate broker hasn’t been able to find any interested buyers and has, in fact, quit.
Apparently, nobody wants to take over the hotel, which has significantly underperformed since Trump took office in 2017. Part of the issue could be that one of the requirements of the new tenants is that they retain the Trump name, which has become toxic since members of the MAGA militia stormed the U.S. Capitol on January 6.
And now, the responses…
I’m here for this.
— Thadd Vargas (@ThaddVargas) January 27, 2021
— Jo (@JoJoFromJerz) January 27, 2021
The quiet and solitude of that lobby makes me feel good
— RJ Brot 🇺🇸 (@RJBrot) January 27, 2021
— 2Loquacious 🌈 (@JerkyTough) January 27, 2021
No grift to be gotten, anymore at the Trump Hotel. Sad. 😎
— 🧑🏻🦰HealthCareChick (@SaybrookChic) January 27, 2021
— Tzippy Shmilovitz 🤦♀️ (@Tzipshmil) January 27, 2021
It’s like The Shining. Except I’d never want to stay here.
— Pragmanthis (@pragmanthis) January 27, 2021
— Miles Connell 🇺🇸 (@miles_connell) January 27, 2021
I’m not an expert, but I’m pretty sure that no customers negatively affects cash-flow.
You hate to see it…🤣
— D. Lowther (@dlowther715) January 27, 2021
Hi, Lloyd. Little slow tonight, isn’t it? pic.twitter.com/T0qJviqJdL
— Kris Alexander (@kris_alexander) January 27, 2021
Graham Gremore is the Features Editor and a Staff Writer at Queerty. Follow him on Twitter @grahamgremore.
barryaksarben
and yet Putin and the bloody prince are probably still renting out rooms nightly so donnie gets to bill them even if no one stays there.
Ginger Tom
It might as well be radioactive for all the business they’re doing.
Catholicslutbox
So even the gays for trump+over Covid gays dumped the trump?
Brian
This is very sad. I lived in DC before, during, and after Trump’s takeover of this historic building. (It was a post office before becoming a hotel.) He ruined it. Everyone in the city knew that then. But this was a solid decade before he considered running for office, so mostly people just laughed/cried at how a loser was able to buy up important places. People back then didn’t understand that he would use it to enrich himself, break the law, house dictators, etc.
Monkey1
The hotel is gorgeous on the outside, hopefully they’ll drop the requirement to keep the name and the place could come back to life. To be fair, all DC hotels were down to below 20% occupancy rate summer of 2020 according to online site bisnow. The DC Marriott might be going out of business and all this because of COVID.
Cam
@Money1
As always, the right wing troll account (Roy Ajax’s other screename) will come in to try to deflect.
This Hotel is empty, down over 60%. And the Marriott is not about to go out of business, but just like you tried to deflect from Melania Trump’s terrible approval ratings on the other thread by lying about Hillary Clinton, here you are trying to give cover to Trump’s hotel failure by lying about a different hotel.
WSnyder
DJT’s hubris is eating into his bottom line. And that’s just grand. Buildings with his name on it are losing money. Only two Trump properties had done better in 2020 than 2019 and even now their slipping, post Jan. 6th as people are fleeing his namesake due to it’s over-the-top toxicity.
With all the legal issues coming home to roost this year, his legal bill are gonna sky-rocket [not to mention the whole Senate Trial next month].
For a guy who was gonna use the Presidency to line his pockets and increase the profitability of his ‘Brand’, he sure played it very stupid and now will lose millions every year with no possibility of recovery.
I’m seriously enjoying his crash and burn.
Cam
Another Trump building in Fl. just voted to remove his name from it because nobody wanted to buy units in a Trump building.
Tombear
Oh, boo hoo, I’m so sad the orange turd’s hotels and other businesses are failing. I guess that’s what you get for trying to overturn democracy!
wikidBSTN
I remember when it was a food court. Much better as a food court.
Harriman
check the menu prices, maybe his patriots could use a “go fund me” account to settle a tab.
Cam
Two other hotel chains, Marriott and I think Hyatt told the DC City Council that Trump’s offer was too much and there was no way this Hotel could be profitable.
The Council ignored them and their bids and went with Trump. The first thing Trump did was to say he shouldn’t have to pay any property taxes. For once the city council fought back and said “Fine, then we’ll take back the lease and rebid it out” so Trump backed down.
Now since you can’t bribe the President by buying rooms the hotel is empty, they are trying to sell the lease and the other Hotel chains are just waiting to grab it up during the bankruptcy fire sale.
BaltoSteve
Quelle Surprise! Another Trump venture going bankrupt.
Creamsicle
Running for president was the dumbest thing Donald Trump ever did. His businesses were shady and the only reason he and his associates never got caught in their mafia LARP was because there weren’t enough eyes on them. Now that he’s an ex-president, he’s too important NOT to have his finances scrutinized. I’m frankly surprised that he was able to successfully keep people from digging into his finances during his presidency.
The extra rich layer is that he can’t rely on loyalists from his tenure as President to continue to shield him from investigation or journalists, because he’s so slimy that he only ever attracted opportunists.
Thad
The building was on a US stamp promoting historic preservation. At any rate, it’s better off than Trump Plaza in Atlantic City. Trump Plaza is being demolished, with implosion of the former hotel tower scheduled for February.