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Dec 12, 2017, 81 tweets

Trump Hotel DC thread is now more than 600 tweets: notable sightings, news, and a photo of Rudy Giuliani with stains on his tux shirt:

Update on when GSA posted Trump Hotel DC's financial info:

Searched for “Trump Hotel” (without quotes) on Twitter. First result was @realDonaldTrump.

About to open Sushi Nakazawa at the Trump Hotel DC, tonight Chef Nakazawa and his team prepared dinner for the Japanese Embassy

Scott Baio's back at the Trump Hotel DC tonight. bit.ly/2C8uMiw

"Beautiful 🇺🇸" posts a "presidential political appointee" at USAID from the Trump Hotel DC bit.ly/2C8dKAX

Last month the same USAID "presidential political appointee" posed with Fox News's Judge Jeanine Pirro, posting "DO NOT mess with The Judge 💪🏻 #MAGA🇺🇸" bit.ly/2C7A7Xj

Trump Hotel DC guest Scott Baio addressed President Trump and the First Lady from behind a podium sporting the presidential seal at the White House today

"Networking" with Donald Trump Jr. at the Trump Hotel tonight bit.ly/2nWQPWg

Trump Hotel DC guest, Fox News pundit and member of Trump's campaign advisory board Harlan Hill, also was at the White House today

Washington Times columnist/ Trump campaign advisory board member Madison Gesiotto and former Arizona governor Jan Brewer at the White House today. They were both at the Trump Hotel DC on Nov. 29 for a party then too,

Recap: Four prominent Trump supporters not in the administration photographed at the White House today also have been photographed at the Trump Hotel DC in the past two weeks (Baio, Brewer, Gesiotto, and Hill).

"What's up!!!! Donald Trump Jr 🌟" posted from the Trump Hotel DC tonight bit.ly/2nVNx5N

.@JapanEmbDC Good evening. Did the embassy or any other arm of the Japanese government pay the Trump International Hotel Washington DC, Sushi Nakazawa, or Chef Nakazawa for their services tonight? Thank you.

From @Mention's "Twitter Marketing: The Complete Guide to Your Content Strategy" presented alongside a tweet from the Japanese DC embassy earlier this evening. bit.ly/2nWpsf5

Washington Post’s @OConnellPostbiz with a dispatch from the Trump Hotel DC last night:

Former Trump campaign spox Katrina Pierson at the Trump Hotel DC again, with Scott Baio an his wife Renee bit.ly/2BiJFBa

Conservative commentator, director of conservative nonprofit, Fox News pundit/Trump campaign advisory board member, and GOP spokesperson among the folks at the Trump Hotel DC last night.

Both this international interviewer/executive producer and Trump campaign advisory board member/Fox News commentator Joy Villa are back at the Trump Hotel DC. Photo taken by GOP delegate, possible US Congress candidate.

Notable Trump supporters Diamond and Silk reportedly were back at the Trump Hotel DC last night.

Emailed Japan's DC embassy asking if the Trump Hotel DC, its incoming restaurant, or its chef were paid by the embassy or any other part of the Japanese gov't for their work at an embassy party last night.

Trump Hotel DC regular (she's there today) and Trump campaign advisory board member Joy Villa is launching an exploratory committee into a congressional run in Florida bit.ly/2BkdIZ6

Wonder if this line of thinking, voiced by evangelical leader/political strategist Lance Wallnau, explains why Christian groups are holding events at the Trump Hotel DC. (at 4:08)
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Also, Wallnau talks about listening to Steve "Bannon and all the strategists" at Trump Hotel DC this week (0:55) bit.ly/2BiIuBL

Omarosa Manigault Newman got married at the Trump Hotel DC on April 8 and was there as recently as Nov. 29 for a Trump election anniversary party.

Last year the Embassy of Kuwait held its National Day celebration at the Trump Hotel DC, after already having sent out save-the-dates for the Four Seasons in Georgetown:

Donald Trump Jr. departing Trump Hotel this morning on his way to appear before the Senate Intelligence Committee, @abcnews reports. Watch him walk down the steps at bit.ly/2AAswTT

RNC holiday party not returning to Trump Hotel DC

Prominent candidate/President Trump supporters Diamond and Silk are at the Trump Hotel DC. It's at least their third visit since August.

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In August, when they were staying at the Trump Hotel DC, Diamond and Silk also visited the U.S. Commerce Dept. to discuss how to grow their brand.

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While Ivanka Trump's brand's set to open a new store in Trump Tower this week, Trump Hotel DC almost always omits her name on social media when promoting its The Spa by Ivanka Trump

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Trump election-anniversary celebration at the Trump Hotel DC cost $30,000: one of many new details from @Fahrenthold and @OConnellPostbiz's colorful rundown of recent festivities at the hotel (for @washingtonpost)
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Vice president Mike Pence at the Trump Hotel DC tonight. bit.ly/2CeaAvF

Former Sheriff Clark is back at the Trump Hotel DC, pictured with a former pollster for Trump's campaign/current pollster for American First Policies nonprofit.

Appears Donald Trump Jr. has finished his testimony before the Senate Intelligence Committee and is back at the Trump Hotel DC.

Recap: At the Trump Hotel DC in the past eight days:
-the U.S. vice president
-two U.S. Cabinet secretaries
-1 U.S. Senator
-1 former Speaker of the House
-11 U.S. Congressmen
-the wife of a U.S. Supreme Court justice

Representatives of Veteran Made Woodworks are at the Trump Hotel DC (aka "the lions den") for the America First Action SuperPAC Christmas party (the SuperPAC purchased 20 old tattered flags).

Based on the geotag of Veterans Made Woodworks' earlier posts, it appears Rep. Claudia Tenney (R-NY) and Rep. Louie Gohmert (R–Texas) also may have been at the Trump Hotel DC tonight for the America First SuperPAC party. "#theyhavebacon" bit.ly/2Cgxz9y

CEO of Forbes Travel Guide, "the global authority on luxury travel," poses in front of the Trump Hotel DC's Christmas tree with the hotel's managing director. bit.ly/2CeOTf5

"Coming to see our Presidents [sic] Hotel all decorated for Christmas!"

House majority leader Kevin McCarthy (R-Calif.) and Peter King (R-NY) among the Congressmen spotted at the Trump Hotel DC last night (via @politico)

Fox News's Dr. Gina Loudon back at the Trump Hotel DC bit.ly/2zbjMRR

Donald Trump Jr. poses w/Veteran Made Woodworks reps, who were at Trump Hotel DC for one of America First SuperPAC's holiday parties there. Per video: "We just met Vice President Pence, a whole bunch of Congressmen, everybody. It's crazy." bit.ly/2zbUD9C

Concierge at the Trump Hotel DC's LinkedIn profile reads "#MAKEAMERICAGREATAGAIN"

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This one tweet from prominent Trump supporters Diamond and Silk shows them talking to President Trump from behind the presidential seal in the White House and standing in front of the Trump Hotel DC's Christmas tree (with Scott Baio).

New tool from @OpenSecretsDC makes it easy to track which political entities have paid the Trump Hotel DC. 102 entries so far, here they are: bit.ly/2krGGvZ

Posing at Trump Hotel DC with her "favorite Florida Congressman Brian Mast" bit.ly/2kqh6Y6

Jerry Falwell and Fox New's Gina Loudon at the Trump Hotel DC. This photo is the fourth Loudon has posted from the hotel in the past 14 hours. bit.ly/2CkKBCN

Donald Trump Jr. poses with a would-be running mate at the Trump Hotel DC bit.ly/2CnM8YL

At Trump Hotel DC: Trump friend Steve Hilbert, CEO of tanning bed/spray booth maker New Sunshine. @MotherJones theorized he may be behind Trump's skin color. Also was CEO
of Conseco before it became 3rd largest US bankruptcy at the time.
bit.ly/2CjCzdo

Hilbert, photographed today at Trump Hotel DC, also was involved in a business deal with Melania Trump’s company, Melania Marks Skincare, that ended up in a nasty lawsuit with a third party—but is a fascinating read (by @EvanWest1
for @IndyMonthly)
bit.ly/2Clfhnl

Congressman Louie Gohmert (R- Texas) at the Trump Hotel DC bit.ly/2Cmtb8Q

Former sheriff David Clarke "got a great hug from VP Pence at the America First Christmas party" at Trump Hotel DC. bit.ly/2AGEdZn

Thomas Hilbert has made his Instagram account private. This afternoon he publicly posted a photo of himself at the Trump Hotel DC with his father, New Sunshine CEO/friend of Donald/business associate of Melania, Stephen Hilbert.

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That photo from the Trump Hotel DC, however, is still publicly accessible on the profile of one of the other subjects—who captioned it "Off to the White House." (Per his Instagram account, after the White House, he visited the vice president's residence.)

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MAGA Meetup at Trump Hotel DC last night. US Army Reserve major posted pics from this political event in support of the commander-in-chief at the command-in-chief's hotel.
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GOP candidate for Congress in Virginia met supporters at Trump Hotel DC

Washington Area Concierge Association's 2018 president of the board of directors is the chef concierge at Trump Hotel DC bit.ly/2ASuGP9

Brad Parscale, Trump campaign's digital director, poses at Trump Hotel DC with Trump/Pence 2016 fan [original poster blurred the faces]

Director of University of South Carolina's Young Republicans ("#republicanaf") at Trump Hotel DC

Rep. Bill Shuster (R–PA)and his press secretary, senior legislative assistant, legislative assistant, and staff assistant at the Trump Hotel DC bit.ly/2zfvhYz

"You never know who you might find roaming the lobby" at the Trump Hotel DC posts this writer for Lonely Planet at the BBC. bit.ly/2zfSoT5

Sports writer and host on Chuck D's RAPstation appears to have been at the Trump Hotel DC for a holiday party

Global head of digital for Cambridge Analytica at the Trump Hotel DC (and White House) bit.ly/2k3rA01

White House Deputy Chief of Staff Rick Dearborn with his mom and wife, a "lobbyist/consultant" focused on the Alabama legislature, at the Trump Hotel DC. They also visited the White House and posed with AG Jeff Sessions and HUD Sec. Ben Carson. bit.ly/2k3MkF1

Newsweek's national affairs correspondent enjoyed the Trump Hotel DC's "hanging strips of meat" [they are bacon and they are delicious]

Assuming WH deputy chief of staff Rick Dearborn did in fact spend money at the Trump Hotel DC, that's a Trump-appointed/taxpayer-paid U.S. gov't employee patronizing a business his boss, the U.S. president, owns. bit.ly/2k3MkF1

Lobbyist with a firm former RNC chair and Mississippi Gov. Haley Barbour founded sabered a bottle of champagne at a holiday party at Trump Hotel DC last night bit.ly/2j68YM3

"Jerusalem is Palestine" march passing Trump Hotel DC. Watch on Facebook: bit.ly/2on2kGG

Question: The video of a lobbyist sabering a bottle of champagne at the Trump Hotel DC had the tag #3rdannualmingleandjingle." Any idea who threw the party? (Searching for that tag on Instagram and Twitter yielded no results.) Thanks!

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Bunch of new photos from the BGR lobbyist at Trump Hotel DC for "Mingle & Jingle in the City": President Trump's Arizona Communications director was there, posed with the lobbyist

Media relations manager for an international law firm and manager of public policy and economic development for an Alabama business alliance also mingled and jingled at the Trump Hotel DC last night.

A legislative aide for Sen. John Cornyn (R–Texas) was at the Trump Hotel DC for Mingle & Jingle lat night—along with lobbyists and law firm staffers bit.ly/2k6UEEf

Sen. Cornyn's (R-Texas) legislative aide, a lobbyist for BGR Group, and the Trump Hotel DC's director of food and beverage pose at the Trump Hotel DC bit.ly/2k6UEEf

Gov. Greg Abbott's (R-Texas) contact for state-federal relations poses with lobbyist at Trump Hotel DC during Mingle & Jingle in the City party
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Executive assistant for BGR lobbying firm, who was a George W. Bush-era assistant to the Sec. of Commerce, was also at the Trump Hotel DC last night bit.ly/2k6UEEf

Asked @GovAbbott's office if any Texas state funds were spent at Trump Hotel DC by staffer who was there last night for a Mingle & Jingle party bit.ly/2k6UEEf

Chairwoman of the Minnesota GOP visited the Trump Hotel DC instagram.com/explore/locati…

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