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Related: Editorials & Other Articles, Issue Forums, Alliance Forums, Region ForumsTrump adding "guest suites" to his ballroom opens up a new revenue stream for him that he's exploited in the past
"GUEST SUITES" mean GUESTS...and even if Trump can't get away with CHARGING "guests" at the White House, he had a little trick he played every time the Secret Service was required to stay at one of his properties to "protect" him...HE CHARGED THEM HIGHLY INFLATED ROOM RATES.
Never underestimate Trump's "creative accounting" practices, even if he's not allowed to charge. He'll find some way to cook the books and get away with it.
As Trump let it slip on Tuesday that his Mar-a-Lago-style project would now cost $400 milliondouble the original price taggovernment documents submitted in court this week revealed how much the plan has grown since it was announced.
https://www.thedailybeast.com/secret-plans-for-monster-trump-white-house-ballroom-revealed/
AZJonnie
(2,784 posts)Will Trump-employed staff offer "bottle service" in the private suites, too?
It sounds like the Best Little Whorehouse in DC.
Captain Zero
(8,743 posts)nt
C_U_L8R
(48,863 posts)But jeez, there they go on vacation, again.
flvegan
(65,764 posts)Raven123
(7,534 posts)gulliver
(13,713 posts)... if they really want to maximize revenue.
MustLoveBeagles
(14,743 posts)Initech
(107,422 posts)MustLoveBeagles
(14,743 posts)Initech
(107,422 posts)tanyev
(48,658 posts)😐
meadowlander
(5,097 posts)when they have to stay in any of the half dozen 5 star hotels within two blocks of the White House?
Initech
(107,422 posts)I'm guessing the rest of the civilized democracies of the world won't come while he's in charge.
Prairie Gates
(7,181 posts)Trueblue1968
(19,077 posts)Tanuki
(16,296 posts)..."The bulk of the cash flow came from the sale of liquor and sex," Blair wrote. She cited newspaper ads referring obliquely to prostitution mentioning private suites for ladies, and scales in the rooms so patrons could weigh gold if they preferred to pay for services that way.
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One Yukon Sun writer moralized about the backroom goings-on: "For single men the Arctic has the best restaurant," he wrote, "but I would not advise respectable women to go there to sleep as they are liable to hear that which would be repugnant to their feelings and uttered, too, by the depraved of their own sex."
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But Blair cautions: "I wouldn't call him a pimp."
She said backroom ribaldry was part of the restaurant package in those towns, and it's not clear how the arrangement worked: "As somebody trying to attract business to his restaurant, of course he would have liquor. Of course he would arrange easy access to women. A pimp is, I think, a different business model."...(more)