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Donald Trump, businessman, former reality TV show host, and now President-elect, is also (not surprisingly) a seasoned jet-setter. After all, he does possess his very own plane. According to Time Magazine, Trump’s two planes flew a total of 504,316 miles between January 2011 and April 2015 alone. To put things in perspective, that’s the equivalent…
Photo courtesy of Gage Skidmore via Flickr The road to Donald Trump’s election as the 45th President of the United States has been anything but smooth. Trump’s controversial campaign was rife with scandal (the Access Hollywood tape, the Trump University fraud case), and fueled by rhetoric around banning Muslims from the country as well as…
On November 8, millions of Americans sat in the company of their friends and family while watching the events of election night unfold. A select group, however, were far from home — and fellow Americans — when the tense, nail-biting race results came in. Unlike the majority at home in the U.S., they were abroad…
It took two years and $200 million but Trump’s latest business endeavor, the Trump International Hotel in Washington, D.C., is officially up and running. Housed in the historic Old Post Office building, the now five-star luxury lodgings swung its doors open on October 24, a strategic two weeks before Election Day.
While the temps are starting to cool down around the country, the political climate only seems to be getting more heated. This year’s presidential election — and its whirlwind of jaw-dropping headlines, dramatic debates, dizzying poll data, and barrage of scandals and controversies — has been stressful, to say the least. At every turn —…
Istanbul’s Blue Mosque After last week’s failed coup, Turkey has been in a state of turmoil — and yesterday, President Recep Tayyip Erdogan declared a three-month state of emergency as he seeks to find those responsible for the attempt. While much of the clashing between the government and dissenters took place in Ankara, Istanbul was…
The world is abuzz with the surprising results of Britain’s referendum. Thought support to leave the European Union increased in the days leading up to the vote, few suspected that the majority of British people would choose to sever the country’s ties with the E.U. — but the people have spoken, David Cameron has resigned,…
Clinton Photo Credit: Brett Weinstein; Trump Photo Credit: Gage Skidmore Every election, thousands upon thousands of Americans claim they’ll move to Canada if their candidate of choice does not become President. And while relatively few citizens actually follow through on this (NPR found that only about 8,000 Americans total — not just those motivated by…
Photo Credit: Gage Skidmore
Hoteliers can be quite powerful people. They have a lot of money, they control major corporations, and they can have quite the impact on the country’s economy, politics, and more. And it seems these days, we’ve seen the mixing of hotels and politics even more than usual. Some use it for good. Some, well, not…