With the GOP nominee’s name emblazoned on Pennsylvania Avenue, the Trump International Hotel in Washington offers an air-conditioned refuge for the 1%
Sitting at the Turkish onyx bar in a red Make America Great Again baseball cap, lawyer Ben Garmer looked around the spacious atrium of the newly opened Trump International Hotel in Washington on Monday and proclaimed it “gorgeous”.
Such hats are a rare sight in Washington, and even rarer in its most august hotels. But this is now effectively the Republican presidential candidate’s sovereign territory, the embassy of Trumpistan, planted just half a dozen blocks from the White House. Win or lose in November’s presidential election, his name is spelled out in gold letters on Pennsylvania Avenue, arguably the most famous street in the nation.
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