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rumdude

(448 posts)
Mon Sep 19, 2016, 06:34 AM Sep 2016

Trump's new hotel offers everything he claims to hate (WaPo)

"A bit after 4 p.m. Thursday, the doorbell rang in my hotel room, Room 446 at the new Trump International Hotel in Washington. It was my Koran. I had ordered it from housekeeping.

I had checked in to experience the just-opened hotel, spending $856 of Jeff Bezos’s money, not including taxes, the $59 I spent on a salad and the $49 for half a bottle of undrinkable bubbly from the Trump winery.

Examining my posh surroundings — Italian bed linens, French table linens, Chinese duvet, Korean TV and, yes, Mexican tequila ($14 for a shot of Patrón Silver) in the minibar, er, “private bar,” I came across the Gideon Bible in the nightstand with a note on “TRUMP HOTELS ™” stationery:

'If you would like to continue your spiritual journey, we also offer the followings [sic]: Talmud. Quran. Gita. Avesta. Tripitaka (Pali Canon). Shri Guru Granth Sahib. Book of Mormon. Kindly contact Housekeeping should you wish to have one delivered to your room.'"

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"It was a further reminder, as if one were needed, that the man who would take up residence just five blocks up Pennsylvania Avenue from his new hotel is a charlatan.

He campaigns on an 'America First' theme — yet about the only American-made thing I could find in my hotel room was the small package of milk-chocolate Trump gold bullion ($25)."

https://www.washingtonpost.com/opinions/trumps-new-hotel-offers-everything-he-claims-to-hate/2016/09/16/fe08a18a-7c04-11e6-bd86-b7bbd53d2b5d_story.html?utm_term=.003414e51a5d

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Trump's new hotel offers everything he claims to hate (WaPo) (Original Post) rumdude Sep 2016 OP
Does it have the porn channels that the Tea-publicans also hate? Vogon_Glory Sep 2016 #1

Vogon_Glory

(9,117 posts)
1. Does it have the porn channels that the Tea-publicans also hate?
Mon Sep 19, 2016, 07:38 AM
Sep 2016

I mean do the hotel rooms have the cable TV channels with the nekkid people doing all those acrobatic things that the Gawd-fearing "Values voters" think ought to be outlawed?

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