The White House praised hotels for housing doctors. Cities say Trump's hotels aren't participating.

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Source: Washington Post

Politics

The White House praised hotels for housing doctors. Cities say Trump’s hotels aren’t participating.

By David A. Fahrenthold and Joshua Partlow
April 18, 2020 at 8:52 a.m. EDT

Thousands of U.S. hotels have volunteered to help local authorities house doctors, nurses and other medical personnel at reduced rates — or even free — during the covid-19 pandemic.

President Trump’s White House has praised these efforts. But so far, none of Trump’s own hotels are known to be participating.

In five U.S. cities where President Trump’s company operates large hotels — New York, Chicago, Miami, Washington and Honolulu — local authorities said that the Trump hotel was not involved in their efforts to provide low-cost or no-cost rooms to those fighting the virus.

“They did not volunteer, and we did not ask them,” said Frank Rollason, the head of emergency management for the fire department in Miami-Dade County, Fla. That county is home to Trump’s Doral resort.

Rollason said the county has rented out two hotels, and is negotiating with five more, to pay them $35 per room per night to house both first responders and homeless people during the pandemic. Rollason said some hotels have also offered to donate rooms, but Doral was not among them.

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Jonathan O’Connell contributed to this report.

David Fahrenthold
David A. Fahrenthold is a reporter covering the Trump family and its business interests. He has been at The Washington Post since 2000, and previously covered Congress, the federal bureaucracy, the environment and the D.C. police. Follow https://twitter.com/Fahrenthold

Josh Partlow
Joshua Partlow is a reporter on the The Washington Post’s national desk. He has served previously as the bureau chief in Mexico City, Kabul, Rio de Janeiro, and as a correspondent in Baghdad. Follow https://twitter.com/partlowj

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The White House praised hotels for housing doctors. Cities say Trump’s hotels aren’t participating.

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[Walleye]

1. I just hate cheapskates and tightwads.

And trump is the all time worst.

[MuseRider]

2. That is probably for the best.

The last thing these heroes need is bedbugs.

[Rebl2]

4. For sure!

[Scarsdale]

6. Amen to THAT!

Reduced rates? No tRump would hear of it.

[machoneman]

7. It is for the best as we know somehow Trumpy would make money off the pandemic.

Once can be sure he has already although the facts will only come out later.

[IronLionZion]

3. It would be funny if states or cities seized these properties during the emergency

since sacrifices must be made. The difference is GOP wants to sacrifice the lives of elderly and vulnerable people, not Trump's unused hotels.

[NonPC]

5. The Real Reason They Didn't Ask

Bedbugs?

[DinahMoeHum]

9. and rats (the four-legged variety)

#newrostrong

[azureblue]

8. Just move in

I suggest get a group of health care workers to go to Trump's hotel and demand free rooms - with the press in tow.

[DENVERPOPS]

10. And

Does this surprise anyone???????

[riversedge]

11. Trumps are basically selfish. simple as that.

[ffr]

12. Because in the two Americas of MAGAstan, tRump only takes, never gives

If you aren't in MAGAstan and you'd know if you were, your life is meaningless to MAGAstanis.

[not_the_one]

13. The turd would view his hotels as "infected",

and has no intention of paying to have them DISinfected.

Just refuse to participate in the saving of this country. Did we expect anything else?

That's what he does.