“The president’s merging of business and politics makes it impossible to know if he’s acting in the interest of country or filthy lucre,” writes Z_Everson—“but people pay tribute as if it helps”
the $500,000 mark in total spending, just at that property. The president profits from all of this business.
Like any premium product, of course, access to the president is multitiered. Anyone can walk into the Benjamin Bar & Lounge, the airy lobby bar that occupies the central atrium of the Old Post Office Building.
Like an airport boarding area just before the first-class passengers head down their special carpet for priority boarding, the first floor of the hotel contains spaces where top Trump lieutenants and GOP establishment power brokers who shelved any misgivings, rather than spend four years in exile, briefly mix with lesser political types and tourists sporting red MAGA bucket hats they bought near the Mall.
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