Hotel Staff Dish The Dirt On Serving The MAGA Elite

The Washingtonian reports:

As soon as Trump was seated, the server had to “discreetly present” a mini bottle of Purell hand sanitizer. (This applied long before Covid, mind you.) Next, cue dialogue: “Good (time of day) Mr. President. Would you like your Diet Coke with or without ice?” the server was instructed to recite. A polished tray with chilled bottles and highball glasses was already prepared for either response. Directions for pouring the soda were detailed in a process no fewer than seven steps long—and illustrated with four photo exhibits. The beverage had to be opened in front of the germophobe commander in chief, “never beforehand.”

Read the full article. The piece goes on to dish about waiting on the Trump spawn, Melania, Giuliani, Hope “Don’t You Know Who I Am?” Hicks, Mike Lindell, Matt Gaetz, and many others. There’s also dirt about angling for prominent tables and orders on where to seat the “pretty people.”

“A tray of junk food needed to be available for every Trump visit: Lay’s chips (sour cream & onion), Milky Way, Snickers, Nature Valley Granola Bars, Tic Tacs, gummy bears, Chips Ahoy, Oreos, Nutter Butters, Tootsie Rolls, chocolate raisins, & Pop-Secret”?https://t.co/zP77NKcEue

— Aaron Rupar (@atrupar) February 19, 2021

“The manual instructed the server to open mini glass bottles of Heinz ketchup in front of Trump, taking care to ensure he could hear the seal make the ‘pop’ sound.”https://t.co/B7Neasi6rR

— Alex Burns (@alexburnsNYT) February 19, 2021

Among other things, this story emphasizes the degree to which Trump’s hotel really did just functon as a kind of bribery palace.https://t.co/1x7tHMv7mZ

— Chris Hayes (@chrislhayes) February 19, 2021