Trump bows out of fight for space outside hotel grand opening

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Trump bows out of fight for space outside hotel grand opening

By Jonathan O'Connell

https://twitter.com/OConnellPostBiz

October 25 at 12:50 PM 

This story has been updated.

Every time Donald Trump holds an event at his new Washington hotel they’ve been there. ... Out front. With signs. And sometimes a bullhorn. ... Protesters have not allowed the presidential candidate to peacefully promote the Old Post Office project or his candidacy there, despite the federal government giving Trump’s company unusual leeway over the property outside his $212 million hotel.

{How Trump constantly uses his political campaign to promote his D.C. hotel}

Wednesday morning will be no different, as Trump plans to hold a grand opening celebration at the hotel and two anti-Trump groups have applied for sidewalk permits to protest two weeks before the election. ... In the past, Trump Organization officials have either ignored the noise out front or stationed a security guard at the front of the hotel, located in the Old Post Office pavilion on Pennsylvania Avenue. ... But this time Trump hatched a unique plan top keep opponents away from his event. A subsidiary of Trump’s company applied for its own public space permit for Wednesday morning, which could have given the magnate some control of the sidewalk along Pennsylvania Avenue and possibly forced protesters across the street.

{Want to protest on public property in front of the new Trump hotel? You’ll have to ask Trump first.}

Trump Old Post Office LLC, which leases the building from the federal government, applied for a permit to hold a ribbon-cutting ceremony on the sidewalk Wednesday. The company requested space for 300 people, 200 chairs and 30 camera tripods. ... Permits are typically issued on a first-come, first-serve basis and different groups are sometimes given different sections of space on the sidewalk or street. ... For Wednesday’s event, Trump was second in line in terms of requests, but late Tuesday withdrew its request. Permits went to the local chapter of the AFL-CIO, which received permission to form a picket line to support workers at a Trump hotel in Las Vegas, similar to a previous event the group held recently.

[elleng]

1. GOOD!

HOPE the place/name are gone by next spring, so I don't have to see it as I pass by (my old office, across the street) on the way to the Cherry Blossoms!