Washington Post pans Trump Hotel

-- The Post’s Monica Hesse reviewed her $805-a-night stay at D.C’s new Trump Hotel – and found a mostly empty hotel filled with gawking tourists. “This lookie-looing happens at other swanky hotels: the Four Seasons, the Ritz, or the Plaza … where [tourists] … line up for the high tea experience,” she writes. “But it happens in a different way at the Trump International, where the luxury is tied not to a brand but a man, and where that man professes to be both a man of exquisite tastes and a man of the people. A man who not only accepts that his supporters wear baseball caps indoors but, since announcing his candidacy, does so himself … The lookie-loos at the Trump International have not put on their Sunday best to roam around one of the ‘great hotels in the world.’ They’re in fanny packs and sports jerseys, capri pants and Naturalizers. Trump has said he is a populist, and his heart-stoppingly expensive hotel at times has the casual vibe of the amusement park you’d drive one hour to visit but not two. Six Flags Trump, the spiritual home of the carnival-barker presidential candidate.”