Even before Donald Trump was able to eke out an Electoral College victory and plummet the United States into a new dark ages, his kids and he were talking big businessboy talk about expanding their hotel empire with new signage (possibly to offset how toxic the name Trump had already become). Eric Trump boasted about having all kinds of deals in the works, though the only “deals” he seemed to be making came directly through his newly powerful daddy’s swampy connections. Now, the New York Times is reporting that the big plans to create two new hotel chains in the United States, the “Scion and American Idea, are to be shelved indefinitely, most likely for the remainder of the presidency.” The Times points out that a big problem the Trumps are facing is the lack of actual interest in making a deal with the Trump hotel business.
Well, that can’t be right! Just last month, Eric Danziger, the chief executive of Trump Hotels, publicly reported that he had “39 letters of intent — informal preliminary agreements — for other hotels across the country.” I guess not so much anymore? The Times printed an Eric Trump statement that came with this slowdown news from Trump Swamps, Incorporated. The younger Trump says that America is now “a climate where everything will be used against us [the Trumps].” He goes on to put together a Trump word poem with everything from “fake news” and “Democrats” to “wasting everyone’s time.”
Of course, most experts believe that the idea of expanding while not growing the economy so that Americans are able to afford hotels, along with the unprecedented level of corruption being investigated in the Trump landscape, were also likely factors in the decision to slow down the expansion of Trump’s maybe-solvent business right now.