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Miles Archer

(21,760 posts)
Thu Dec 18, 2025, 02:15 PM Dec 18

Trump 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.

Trump’s ever-expanding ballroom will form part of a new two-story building that will dominate the White House and feature monumental stairs, guest suites, and a multi-level passageway connecting it to the president’s main residence.

As Trump let it slip on Tuesday that his Mar-a-Lago-style project would now cost $400 million—double the original price tag—government 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/
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AZJonnie

(2,784 posts)
1. You mean like the "private rooms" at the local titty bar? Rent them by the 1/2 hour type thing?
Thu Dec 18, 2025, 02:21 PM
Dec 18

Will Trump-employed staff offer "bottle service" in the private suites, too?

meadowlander

(5,097 posts)
10. How can lobbyists and foreign dignataries be expected to do their thing
Thu Dec 18, 2025, 04:46 PM
Dec 18

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)
16. When our current allies are Russia, Isreal, Turkmenistan, Armenia, Turkey...
Thu Dec 18, 2025, 05:04 PM
Dec 18

I'm guessing the rest of the civilized democracies of the world won't come while he's in charge.

Tanuki

(16,296 posts)
15. Inspired by the rooms in the original Trump family brothel
Thu Dec 18, 2025, 04:58 PM
Dec 18
https://www.cbc.ca/news/canada/trump-canada-yukon-1.3235254
..."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)
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