Marine One with then-President Donald Trump and First Lady Melania Trump passes the Trump International Hotel as it departs the White House on Jan. 20, 2021. (Photo by OLIVIER DOULIERY/POOL/AFP via Getty Images)
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Rates at the Trump hotel in Washington, D.C. are $7,500 cheaper on Jan. 6, 2022 than they were on the same date in 2021, when supporters of the former president stormed the U.S. Capitol.
Ahead of that day, in December 2020, Trump had plugged a “big protest” that would “be wild” in D.C. Almost immediately, rates surged from $476 to $1,999. A week later, they climbed to $3,600, before peaking at $8,000 for the least-expensive room. The house was apparently packed. A manager for the hotel later boasted that room service enjoyed record numbers that week.
It’s a different story this year. A room at Trump’s D.C. hotel can be had for as little as $446. That’s the same rate as almost every other night at the hotel over the next two months. Representatives from the Trump Organization did not immediately respond to inquiries.
Plenty of Republican bigwigs showed up at the hotel around Jan. 6, 2021. Sen. Tommy Tuberville (R-Ala.), former National Security Advisor Michael Flynn, Donald Trump Jr., Eric Trump, Qanon promoter Juan O. Savin and one of Rudy Giuliani’s election experts, Phil Waldron, all showed up at the property last year. In 2022, they don’t seem as interested in visiting.
Rooms on Jan. 6 at the Trump Hotel D.C. on Jan. 6, 2022 start at $7,500 less than what they cost on the same date last year.
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