The Trump Organization is accused of having made big money on January 6th – because the prices in the capital city hotel Trump International went through the roof.
Washington DC – The elected US President Donald Trump is not only accused of inciting his supporters to attack the Capitol on January 6th of this year: As the US business magazine Forbes reports, his company also had a significant part in the action deserved. The magazine has substantiated the allegation with a protocol that, among other things, compares the room prices in Trump’s own hotel in the capital of the United States.
According to Forbes research, the cheapest rooms in the Trump Hotel not far from the National Mall, the government district park, cost 476 US dollars on December 18, 2020 for the evening of January 6, 2021. The following day Trump called on Twitter for a protest event under the motto “Stop the Steal”, the day when the US MPs were supposed to confirm the newly elected President Joe Biden in office in the Capitol. On December 20, the lowest room rates were already $ 1999. By New Year’s Eve 2020, room prices even climbed to a full $ 8,000.
Guests at the Trump Hotel in Washington: Trump sons, “QAnon” influencers, top politicians
As Forbes reports, the guests who stayed at the Trump International Hotel on the night of January 6th, in addition to the Trump sons, included Donald Trump Jr. and Eric Trump also former Trump advisor Michael Flynn and “QAnon” influencer Juan O. Savin. The latter is believed by some followers of the scene to be John F. Kennedy Junior, who died in a plane crash.
Other Trump supporters, who were working in a so-called “War Room” in the nearby Willard Hotel, to get Trump a second term as US President, as well as high-ranking politicians, are also on posts on social media, some of which have since been deleted like seeing Republican Senator Tommy Tuberville of Alaska. The tweeted reports from Forbes the day before the certification of the election result that he would appeal against the results of the elections in Arizona and possibly other states. Hours later, a photo was uploaded showing him with a female hotel guest in the lobby of the Trump Hotel.
Forbes report on Trump Hotel: record numbers also for restaurant and premium room service
In addition to the expensive room prices, the restaurant and premium room service revenues were particularly high around January 6, as the Forbes report shows. The magazine refers to a tweet from hotel manager Mickael Damelincourt on January 7th, who praised the hotel’s service team for the “record numbers” of the week. The previous tweet shows Eric Trump with the hotel manager and one of the chefs posing in front of a birthday cake with mini fireworks on January 6th. The second eldest Trump son celebrated his 37th birthday on January 6th.
At the beginning of February, Forbes reported on a sharp rise in room prices at the Trump International Hotel in Washington DC – at that time for March 4, 2021. Supporters of the conspiracy cult around the elected US president had predicted this date as the date of Trump’s reinstatement. According to police information leaked to the Guardian in May, the price increase was a “security tactic” of the Trump hotel at the time, which was used to lock out “QAnon” followers.
The Trump Hotel, which was booked hundreds of times for state visits during his presidency, is now, according to Guardian reports, far less popular and in economic distress. (ska)
