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Melania Trump Spent Almost $100,000 at a Hotel She Never Slept In
For an Africa trip rife with colonial imagery, this somehow feels right.
by Erika Harwood November 2, 2018 12:48 pm
Melania Trumps October trip to Africa may never stop being controversial. According to federal spending records, Trumps hotel bill during her stop in Cairo cost taxpayers $95,050even though, as spokeswoman Stephanie Grisham told Quartz, Trump did not even stay overnight at the InterContinental Semiramis hotel and was only in Cairo for six hours.
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In an hour-long ABC News interview filmed during the Africa trip, Trump insisted that people should be more focused on what she does rather than what she wears, in one of her few statements of actual substance. Does racking up a $95,000 hotel bill for no discernible reason count?
https://www.vanityfair.com/style/2018/11/melania-trump-cairo-hotel-bill
Me.
(35,454 posts)Did she pocket the change from $699. the cost of the presidential suite. It's unbelievable how he and his are squandering our treasury.
dalton99a
(81,752 posts)onecaliberal
(33,042 posts)Docreed2003
(16,916 posts)That's the only two things I can come up with for spending on a room you don't stay in
dalton99a
(81,752 posts)Docreed2003
(16,916 posts)gopiscrap
(23,769 posts)Docreed2003
(16,916 posts)3catwoman3
(24,173 posts)EleanorR
(2,400 posts)saidsimplesimon
(7,888 posts)RainCaster
(10,977 posts)At grifting.
usaf-vet
(6,262 posts)With this gang of grifters the possibilities are endless.
LiberalArkie
(15,747 posts)catbyte
(34,584 posts)and perfectly acceptable for her to take a nap in and to change her clothes.
Fritz Walter
(4,294 posts)Heavens knows, she had to wash off all the... dust... that she encountered during her trip to those countries that baby donnie referred to as $#!+ holes.
LiberalArkie
(15,747 posts)a hotel where they rented 3 floors not matter what Fir security personel and just the staff as a lot of people have to be present for the the plane lands.
PatrickforO
(14,614 posts)Well, they do say money talks, so maybe her few statements of actual substance should include these billing statements...
Gothmog
(146,217 posts)Scarsdale
(9,426 posts)After spending all that money, she still looks miserable as hell. Why do we all have to suffer reading and seeing her constantly? If she is so unhappy with her OLD man, she should leave. No wonder her career as an escort - er - "model" was not very successful. If men wanted to spend time with a seriously unhappy woman, they would stay home and save the money.
fescuerescue
(4,448 posts)While she didn't say overnight, the team that got there probably a week ahead of her certainly did.
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