Trump Promotes New Luxury Hotel – Along With Campaign

Donald Trump is saying he appeared at the grand opening ceremony of his new Washington hotel “to be there” for his family – and will resume campaigning right afterward.

Donald Trump, the Republican presidential nominee, his wife Melania, daughters Tiffany and Ivanka, and sons Donald Jr. and Eric each used oversized gold scissors to cut sections of the ribbon as hotel staff lined a balcony just above.

(AP Photo/Beth J. Harpaz). “Precisely the same moment he was cutting the ribbon in Washington, D.C., where there are no voters for him, Hillary Clinton was in Florida giving a speech”. The last time Trump held a major public event at his hotel in the District of Columbia was last month, when he acknowledged for the first time that President Barack Obama was born in the United States.

But while Trump’s running mate went to Utah on Wednesday to shore up what should have been a safe Republican state, Trump opted to use precious campaign time to promote the Trump International in the District of Columbia, where he will be lucky to get 5 percent of the vote.

“All Donald Trump had to do was just shut up for three days and the press would have had to cover the Clinton stuff”.

Unlike the groundbreaking for the hotel in 2014, which featured a bevy of D.C. politicos, no prominent local officials attended the ribbon-cutting ceremony.

That remains to be seen.

CTV News called a number listed for the Vancouver hotel on Wednesday, and the woman who answered the phone said the building is due to open on January 5, 2017.

The Trump campaign did not respond to multiple requests for comment about whether the campaign had paid for the costs of the event, as would be required under campaign finance law.

Jimenez stressed the point that the protest in front of Trump Hotel today was in support of the Las Vegas workers. My theme today is five words: Under budget and ahead of schedule.

A spokeswoman confirmed to FoxNews.com that all of the hotel rooms have since been complete but parts of the property still remain under construction. The two are now locked in litigation over the deal. Trump contributed more than $42 million to the project, according to David Orowitz, a senior vice president at the Trump Organization.

Donald Trump said that he would accept the presidential election results if they were in his favor during a rally in OH on October 20, 2016.

The hotel’s website appears to confirm that opening date: Guests who wish to book a room online can not book before January 5.

Trump supporter Brenda Dunaway, at the 263-room hotel with friends for lunch Wednesday, stood in the lobby beneath chandeliers and a soaring glass roof and gave her approval. “I hope it’s a big success”. A naturalized USA citizen who proudly employs immigrants at his restaurants, Andres was incensed by Trump’s anti-immigrant rhetoric and pulled out of the project, a Spanish-Japanese fusion restaurant. Burke was on hand Tuesday night to chat with diners. “But I’m really looking forward to”, he said. Several workers, who hail mostly from Central America, earned US citizenship or legal status, while others acknowledged that they remained in the country illegally. New Jersey Governor Chris Christie, named to oversee Trump’s White House transition team, has all but disappeared from the trail as court proceedings in New Jersey detail his administration’s role in a politically motivated closing of traffic lanes approaching the George Washington Bridge. “The Republican presidential nominee received criticism for taking hours out of his campaign schedule Wednesday to attend the opening, which comes less than two weeks before Election Day”. And most of the products in the rooms were made overseas. Suites run into the thousands.

Politically, the past few weeks have offered scarce nuggets of good news for Trump. “We have a lot of great people who want to get back into Trump University”.

“Today he’s in Washington, DC, to open a new luxury hotel”, she said to boos from the crowd. He said they already have two years’ worth of material lined up.

Rick Tyler, a former spokesman for Republican presidential primary candidate Ted Cruz, agreed that Trump had time and again taken his eye off the ball, insisting on waging losing fights to defend himself and giving Clinton a pass on her own problems. Council member Jack Evans, whose ward includes the hotel, texted to say he was “in a committee markup and dealing with Metro” where he is board chair.