37% occupancy. It’s not a very good place to do anything.
Trump wasn’t lying when he said he would not make a profit from it, the Doral is a money loser all the time.
Oh, I don’t know about that. It’s one of the few resorts left in Florida to just get away from it all.
A bed-bug summit, maybe.
Miami. In summertime. AKA “hurricane season.” Conveniently located right by a busy international airport, for your peace-and-quiet pleasure. Not sure if there’s actually a flight path right over the resort, but I know the PGA golfers used to hate the air traffic noise back when Doral was on the tour.
And are we ignoring the bedbugs, the smell of stale spilled beer in the carpets, and the mildew for now?
Can’t see why that place would be undercooked in June.:rolleyes:
It’s “identity politics” at its finest.
I heard someone on NPR talking about this on Friday. I honestly can’t remember if it was a journalist/commentator or a security expert, but he was comparing Doral to previous summit sites. The previous sites were more secluded (Sea Island, GA; Camp David, MD; Williamsburg, VA) which benefited security planning, as compared to Doral, which is basically in an urban area.
*underBOOKED. Go to Hell, auto-incorrect.
Unless he’s getting a loan, in which case it make a YUUUGE profit!
I hate to tell you, but this is pretty much ALL THEY HAVE LEFT at this point.
This is it. This is the pinnacle of conservative “thought”
I checked the satellite map; the driving range is in a direct line with runway 12 at Miami International, 2¾ miles to the southeast.
OP, do you realize the Constitution forbids the president from using his office for profit? Or do you only pay attention to the gun rights part?
A silver lining in the cloud of Trumpian corruption is that it’s pushing his opponents into “clean government” positions they’ll find it difficult to back out of later.
As mentioned in the article linked by the OP, Trump has awarded ambassadorships to big campaign donors, a pattern of sleaziness followed by his predecessors as well. Now Elizabeth Warren is railing against the practice.
You go, Liz. Hopefully the “Media” will hold you to that one.
I pity the O.P. - another soul corrupted by Trump and turned to evil, another mind brainwashed and turned to mush.
As already pointed out, it was Republicans that changed Trump’s mind, because the corruption was so blatant and self-evident that they had not even a fig leaf of a defense against it.
The Hill: Trump dropped plan to host G-7 at Doral after Republican criticism: report
The president floated an idea so heinously corrupt that his own party threatened revolt, and reversed course to save face. Hahahaha, suck it, libs!
The word “free” only came up after Trump cancelled the summit at his bed bug infested property. Trump doesn’t do free. He even charged his son’s charity hundreds of thousands of dollars to use his golf course for a charity event.
The media has said no. Reasons given is that it is in the middle of communities, most conferences are near water, so one side is already effectively blocked. It is in a flight zone, so all those flights would have to be re-routed. The communities would be blocked and extremely inconvenienced. Also not sure what state of repair the facility is in.
Hurricane season aside, Miami in June is anything but undercooked. Or under-humidified.
My cynical self tells me Trump was planning to do a major renovation before the summit to fix the problems at Dorel using taxpayer’s money “at cost.”
If the site had not been changed, I can see other world leaders having objected to the point of not coming to the summit.
I commute to the office twice a week. The average time each way is about three hours.
Is it really that bad? I just wonder - if you are running a resort that charges top dollar, you would assume that standards at least equal to a Holiday inn Express would be upheld. You know, clean rooms that are frequently refurbished, immediately handling of any reported bed bugs with serious measures. (Strip the room bare and fumigate?).
I want to think that this would be trivial to happen. Just hire experienced and qualified hotel management and make sure they are empowered to spend money as needed to give guests a top tier experience. Doesn’t Hilton have a policy like that?