'It's our little Trump safe space.' In troubled times, the presidents D.C. hotel is a refuge for...

[demmiblue]

Source: WaPo

In the lobby of the Trump International Hotel, three blocks from the White House, Suzzanne Monk was wearing a homemade Santa hat embroidered with the words “Make America Great Again.”

Tuesday night. A Republican was ahead in Alabama. The crowd was upbeat. She posted a smiling selfie on Facebook.

“Watching Alabama returns at Trump International,” she wrote.

Monk, a 45-year-old author and Trump advocate, was here for the latest “MAGA Meetup,” a gathering of President Trump’s strongest supporters who make monthly pilgrimages to the hotel he owns.

Nearby, Trump’s daughter Ivanka and her husband Jared Kushner strolled through the lobby to attend a holiday party hosted by the pro-Trump super-PAC America First Action, one of three events the group held at the hotel this month.

Since last year’s election, Trump’s luxury hotel on Pennsylvania Avenue has operated as a kind of political clubhouse for his aides and fans — a refuge filled with like-minded people, where the euphoria of Trump’s world-changing 2016 win still persists.

Read more: https://www.washingtonpost.com/politics/its-our-little-trump-safe-space-in-troubled-times-the-presidents-d-c-hotel-is-a-refuge-for-his-fans/2017/12/13/8d739560-df86-11e7-89e8-edec16379010_story.html?utm_term=.924f5829df7d

[Aristus]

1. But we liberals are the ones who need 'safe spaces'...