‘For nearly five years, I’ve been reporting on the hotel, largely using social media to do things like track who was hanging out in the lobby,” says Forbes magazine journalist Zach Everson. The Forbes reporter was recently banned from The Trump International Hotel in Washington, D.C., for taking photographs. Everson said he was ordered to leave by the hotel’s director of security, Ernest Wojciech for “taking photos without permission.” These are funny times; doing your job can sometimes cost you a job, and this predicament is permanent.
The reporter was then told the ban was for life. The scribe is not convinced that this is the real reason for ousting him. He thinks it’s his take on the inside-tales that got him out. ‘For almost five years, Everson reported on the hotel, mostly using social media to do things like follow who was hanging out in the lobby (unsurprisingly, a lot of lobbyists) and who used the hotel as an office ( just Rudy Giuliani),’ Everson wrote. He continued, “I even started a newsletter, named 1100 Pennsylvania after the hotel’s address, to document events inside the building.” Not only the guests and people, Everson even paid close attention to changes in room rates and unabashedly tweeted his observations.
Anyway, I quickly figured out the likely reason for the Trump Hotel DC's price spike.
No, it was not welcoming part of the Israeli delegation.
It was hosting a corporate event for an bug exterminator.
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— Zach Everson (@Z_Everson) August 27, 2021
He headed to the hotel Thursday night after seeing that its room prices had soared. He noted that the “cheapest” room was suddenly listed at $2,400 a night, an astonishing jump from $400 just weeks before. As noted by Everson the price hike could be for the hotel to cash in on the upcoming Pro-Trump rally scheduled for September 18th.
Weeks ago I noticed the lowest rate at the Trump Hotel DC last night was $2,400.
But for the life of me, I couldn't figure out why.
So armed with a double-layered mask and anti-bac it time for some shoe-leather reporting.
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https://t.co/K7jG5O7yBJ pic.twitter.com/3DghlNLyGH— Zach Everson (@Z_Everson) August 27, 2021
Interestingly the hotel holds very high ratings on Tripadvisor and apparently is the second-best luxury hotel in the United States and the best in Washington DC.
[Via: Forbes]
