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curl -X POST \
  'http://laksa084.int.ahrefs:8124/' \
  -H 'Content-Type: text/plain' \
  -H 'X-ClickHouse-Database: crawler3' \
  -H 'Authorization: Basic YXBpOg==' \
  -d 'SELECT getAhrefsURLFromUnparsed(src_unparsed) AS found_url, ifNull(toUnixTimestamp(download_stamp), 0) AS crawl_time, ifNull(toUnixTimestamp(props_url_first_seen), 0) AS first_indexed_time, download_http_code AS http_code, src_unparsed AS src_unparsed, src_root_hash AS src_root_hash, history_drop_reason AS history_drop_reason, meta_title AS meta_title, meta_descriptions AS meta_descriptions, attrs_boilerpipe_text AS attrs_boilerpipe_text, attrs_markdown AS attrs_markdown, attrs_readable_markdown AS attrs_readable_markdown, meta_canonical AS meta_canonical FROM crawler3.page_info_local FINAL PREWHERE (src_root_hash, src_unparsed) IN ((getAhrefsRootHashFromUnparsed(getAhrefsUnparsedNoserviceFromURL(\'https://www.nytimes.com/2022/05/11/us/politics/trump-hotel-sale-washington.html\')), getAhrefsUnparsedNoserviceFromURL(\'https://www.nytimes.com/2022/05/11/us/politics/trump-hotel-sale-washington.html\'))) FORMAT JSONEachRow'

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{"found_url":"https:\/\/www.nytimes.com\/2022\/05\/11\/us\/politics\/trump-hotel-sale-washington.html","crawl_time":1772577480,"first_indexed_time":1652305494,"http_code":200,"src_unparsed":"com,nytimes!www,\/2022\/05\/11\/us\/politics\/trump-hotel-sale-washington.html s443","src_root_hash":"4566504020376537684","history_drop_reason":null,"meta_title":"Trump Completes Sale of Washington Hotel to Investor Group - The New York Times","meta_descriptions":["The favored gathering place of Trump supporters — and a magnet for conflict of interest questions — will become a Waldorf Astoria."],"attrs_boilerpipe_text":"Advertisement\nSKIP ADVERTISEMENT\nThe favored gathering place of Trump supporters — and a magnet for conflict of interest questions — will become a Waldorf Astoria.\nThe hotel opened just a few weeks before Donald J. Trump was elected president in 2016 after a $200 million renovation of the once-decrepit building.\nCredit...\nKenny Holston for The New York Times\nMay 11, 2022\nWASHINGTON — The Trump International Hotel in Washington is now officially out of business after the Trump family on Wednesday completed its sale to a Miami investor group, which plans to reopen it as a Waldorf Astoria.\nThe sale formally ended the Trump family’s business presence in Washington, although the family company still owns a golf course in Northern Virginia. The deal with the investor group,\nCGI Merchant Group\n, for a reported price of $375 million covers only the operation of the hotel, which is housed in a building leased from the federal government.\nThe new owners moved quickly to take control of the hotel, sending a crew out after dark on Wednesday to begin taking down the Trump signs, starting with the gold-plated family name above the main entrance.\nHotel industry executives have said the hotel had underperformed compared with other luxury hotels in the city, particularly since President Donald J. Trump left office, in part because some companies and travelers were reluctant to book rooms or hold events at the hotel given the controversies surrounding Mr. Trump. Those factors most likely contributed to the decision to sell the lease, they said.\nBut the 263-room hotel still pulled in an exceptionally high sale price, given its location on Pennsylvania Avenue, between the White House and the Capitol, and its presence inside a Washington landmark, the\nOld Post Office Building\n, whose clock tower makes it one of the tallest buildings in the capital.\nThe average sales price for hotels in Washington in 2020 was $354,000 per room, according to a survey by JLL, a real estate firm. The reported price for the Trump hotel deal suggested a per-room price of more than $1 million, a level that surprised some veteran real estate executives in Washington.\nThe hotel, which opened just a few weeks before Mr. Trump was elected president in 2016 after a $200 million renovation of the once-decrepit building,\nbecame a gathering place\nfor his supporters, members of his cabinet, lobbyists, Republicans in Congress and foreign leaders, some of whom were on their way to see Mr. Trump.\nImage\nWorkers removing the Trump branding from what was the Trump International Hotel in Washington on Wednesday night.\nCredit...\nKenny Holston for The New York Times\n“We took a dilapidated and underutilized building and transformed it into one of the most iconic hotels in the world,” Eric Trump, Mr. Trump’s son and an executive vice president of the Trump Organization, said in a statement on Wednesday announcing the closing of the sale.\nA spokesman for CGI declined to comment.\nBut since 2020, the hotel has generally seen sparse crowds in its sprawling lobby, including late last week, several days before the closing, when just a few tables were occupied at the lobby bar.\n“It is a beautiful property,” said David Lentz of Placentia, Calif., who visited the lobby last week. “Good for him, if Trump is making more money on it.”\nBut some would-be guests expressed frustration after they received calls telling them their reservations had been canceled. “They are just stiffing everyone,” said Jayson Woodbridge, a California winemaker who had a reservation for a weeklong stay at the hotel to attend his daughter’s graduation in the area.\nLast week, Mickael Damelincourt, the longtime manager of the hotel, moved from table to table to greet some of the regulars at the lobby bar, pausing to take photos with several of them in advance of the hotel’s sale. The BLT Prime restaurant at the property had already closed permanently, as had the Ivanka Trump spa, and the hotel itself was no longer taking room reservations.\nJust days before the sale closed, the Trump Organization and Mr. Trump’s 2017 inaugural committee\nagreed to settle a lawsuit\nfiled by Karl A. Racine, the attorney general for the District of Columbia, who had claimed that the hotel had illegally received excessive payments from the inaugural committee, totaling more than $1 million.\nThe settlement in the civil suit came with no admission of wrongdoing by the Trump Organization, the former president or the inaugural committee.\nThose claims were among the many allegations in various lawsuits that Mr. Trump improperly profited from the presidency through payments made to the hotel by, among others, lobbyists and foreign governments. Suits from the State of Maryland and Democratic members of Congress cited the\nemoluments clauses\nof the Constitution, which prohibit federal officials from accepting financial benefits from foreign governments without congressional approval.\nThe Trump family has paid the federal government a base rent of\n$3 million a year\nfor the Old Post Office Building,\naccording to its 2013 lease\n. The sale will generate a profit of about $100 million for the family, once a loan taken out to pay for the renovations is paid off,\naccording to estimates\nby House Democrats.\nThe contract with the federal government that the Trump Organization signed\ncalled for the company to share some of its profits\nwith the government if the hotel were sold. But a Trump Organization executive said the way the lease was written — allowing the Trump family to earn a 20 percent annual rate of return on equity put into the hotel project — meant there was not likely to be a large amount of such profit-sharing.\nA correction was made on\nMay 11, 2022\n: \nAn earlier version of this article misstated the year in which the average sales price for hotels in Washington was $354,000 per room. It was 2020, not 2002.\nEric Lipton\nis a Washington-based investigative reporter. A three-time winner of the Pulitzer Prize, he previously worked at The Washington Post and The Hartford Courant.\nA version of this article appears in print on\nMay 12, 2022\n, Section A, Page 19 of the New York edition with the headline: Trump Finishes Sale of Washington Hotel, a Magnet for Supporters and Squabbles\n.\nOrder Reprints\n|\nToday’s Paper\n|\nSubscribe\nRelated Content\nMore in Politics\nDoug Mills\/The New York Times\nHiroko Masuike\/The New York Times\nDoug Mills\/The New York Times\nKaoly Gutierrez for The New York Times\nEditors’ Picks\nEmma McIntyre\/Getty Images\nAlexandre Juillet\/Chamonix-Mont Blanc\nTrending in The Times\nPhoto Illustration by Ioulex for The New York Times\nVictor Medina\/Reuters\nBrill\/ullstein bild, via Getty Images\nChristopher Testani for The New York Times. Food Stylist: Simon Andrews.\nLiam Kennedy for The New York Times\nPhoto Illustration by Mel Haasch; Grace Cary\/Getty Images\nMunir Uz Zaman\/Agence France-Presse — Getty Images\nAl Drago for The New York Times\nPhilip Montgomery for The New York Times\niStock\/Getty Images Plus\nAdvertisement\nSKIP ADVERTISEMENT","attrs_markdown":"[Skip to content](https:\/\/www.nytimes.com\/2022\/05\/11\/us\/politics\/trump-hotel-sale-washington.html#site-content)[Skip to site index](https:\/\/www.nytimes.com\/2022\/05\/11\/us\/politics\/trump-hotel-sale-washington.html#site-index)\n\nSearch & Section Navigation\n\nSection Navigation\n\nSearch\n\n[Politics](https:\/\/www.nytimes.com\/section\/politics)\n\n[Log in](https:\/\/myaccount.nytimes.com\/auth\/login?response_type=cookie&client_id=vi&redirect_uri=https%3A%2F%2Fwww.nytimes.com%2Fsubscription%2Fonboarding-offer%3FcampaignId%3D7JFJX%26EXIT_URI%3Dhttps%253A%252F%252Fwww.nytimes.com%252F2022%252F05%252F11%252Fus%252Fpolitics%252Ftrump-hotel-sale-washington.html&asset=masthead)\n\nTuesday, March 3, 2026\n\n[Today’s Paper](https:\/\/www.nytimes.com\/section\/todayspaper)\n\nTrump Administration\n\n- live[Updates](https:\/\/www.nytimes.com\/live\/2026\/03\/03\/us\/trump-news-updates)\n  \n  March 3, 2026, 5:30 p.m. ET8m ago\n- [Embracing Military Power](https:\/\/www.nytimes.com\/2026\/03\/02\/us\/politics\/trump-military-power.html)\n- [Labor Dept. 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Trump was elected president in 2016 after a \\$200 million renovation of the once-decrepit building.Credit...Kenny Holston for The New York Times\n\n[![Eric Lipton](https:\/\/static01.nyt.com\/images\/2018\/12\/06\/multimedia\/author-eric-lipton\/author-eric-lipton-thumbLarge.png)](https:\/\/www.nytimes.com\/by\/eric-lipton)\n\nBy [Eric Lipton](https:\/\/www.nytimes.com\/by\/eric-lipton)\n\nMay 11, 2022\n\nWASHINGTON — The Trump International Hotel in Washington is now officially out of business after the Trump family on Wednesday completed its sale to a Miami investor group, which plans to reopen it as a Waldorf Astoria.\n\nThe sale formally ended the Trump family’s business presence in Washington, although the family company still owns a golf course in Northern Virginia. The deal with the investor group, [CGI Merchant Group](https:\/\/cgimg.com\/), for a reported price of \\$375 million covers only the operation of the hotel, which is housed in a building leased from the federal government.\n\nThe new owners moved quickly to take control of the hotel, sending a crew out after dark on Wednesday to begin taking down the Trump signs, starting with the gold-plated family name above the main entrance.\n\nHotel industry executives have said the hotel had underperformed compared with other luxury hotels in the city, particularly since President Donald J. Trump left office, in part because some companies and travelers were reluctant to book rooms or hold events at the hotel given the controversies surrounding Mr. Trump. Those factors most likely contributed to the decision to sell the lease, they said.\n\nBut the 263-room hotel still pulled in an exceptionally high sale price, given its location on Pennsylvania Avenue, between the White House and the Capitol, and its presence inside a Washington landmark, the [Old Post Office Building](https:\/\/www.gsa.gov\/historic-buildings\/old-post-office-washington-dc), whose clock tower makes it one of the tallest buildings in the capital.\n\nThe average sales price for hotels in Washington in 2020 was \\$354,000 per room, according to a survey by JLL, a real estate firm. The reported price for the Trump hotel deal suggested a per-room price of more than \\$1 million, a level that surprised some veteran real estate executives in Washington.\n\nThe hotel, which opened just a few weeks before Mr. Trump was elected president in 2016 after a \\$200 million renovation of the once-decrepit building, [became a gathering place](https:\/\/www.nytimes.com\/2022\/04\/20\/us\/politics\/trump-hotel-sale-washington.html) for his supporters, members of his cabinet, lobbyists, Republicans in Congress and foreign leaders, some of whom were on their way to see Mr. Trump.\n\n## Editors’ Picks\n[![](https:\/\/static01.nyt.com\/images\/2026\/03\/01\/realestate\/28re-ASK-ILLO\/28re-ASK-ILLO-thumbLarge.jpg)Who Has the Right to That Parking Spot in Front of the Building?](https:\/\/www.nytimes.com\/2026\/02\/28\/realestate\/parking-spaces-new-york-city.html)\n\n[![](https:\/\/static01.nyt.com\/images\/2026\/02\/28\/magazine\/28mag-ethicist\/28mag-ethicist-thumbLarge.jpg)My Aging Mother Won’t Stop Driving. 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The BLT Prime restaurant at the property had already closed permanently, as had the Ivanka Trump spa, and the hotel itself was no longer taking room reservations.\n\nJust days before the sale closed, the Trump Organization and Mr. Trump’s 2017 inaugural committee [agreed to settle a lawsuit](https:\/\/www.nytimes.com\/2022\/05\/03\/us\/politics\/trump-hotel-lawsuit-settlement.html) filed by Karl A. Racine, the attorney general for the District of Columbia, who had claimed that the hotel had illegally received excessive payments from the inaugural committee, totaling more than \\$1 million.\n\nThe settlement in the civil suit came with no admission of wrongdoing by the Trump Organization, the former president or the inaugural committee.\n\nThose claims were among the many allegations in various lawsuits that Mr. Trump improperly profited from the presidency through payments made to the hotel by, among others, lobbyists and foreign governments. Suits from the State of Maryland and Democratic members of Congress cited the [emoluments clauses](https:\/\/www.nytimes.com\/2021\/01\/25\/us\/emoluments-trump-supreme-court.html) of the Constitution, which prohibit federal officials from accepting financial benefits from foreign governments without congressional approval.\n\nThe Trump family has paid the federal government a base rent of [\\$3 million a year](https:\/\/int.nyt.com\/data\/documenttools\/trump-hotel-taxes-exhibits-082916\/1e6938924f00b463\/full.pdf#page=9) for the Old Post Office Building, [according to its 2013 lease](https:\/\/int.nyt.com\/data\/documenttools\/opo-trump-lease\/be3acef243f1735c\/full.pdf). The sale will generate a profit of about \\$100 million for the family, once a loan taken out to pay for the renovations is paid off, [according to estimates](https:\/\/oversight.house.gov\/sites\/democrats.oversight.house.gov\/files\/2022-02-17.CBM%20GEC%20to%20Carnahan-GSA%20re%20Trump%20Hotel%20Lease.pdf) by House Democrats.\n\nThe contract with the federal government that the Trump Organization signed [called for the company to share some of its profits](https:\/\/int.nyt.com\/data\/documenttools\/trump-hotel-taxes-exhibits-082916\/1e6938924f00b463\/full.pdf#page=9) with the government if the hotel were sold. But a Trump Organization executive said the way the lease was written — allowing the Trump family to earn a 20 percent annual rate of return on equity put into the hotel project — meant there was not likely to be a large amount of such profit-sharing.\n\nThe Trump Hotel in Washington\n\n[![]()Trump Settles Suit Over Payments to Hotel for 2017 Inauguration May 3, 2022](https:\/\/www.nytimes.com\/2022\/05\/03\/us\/politics\/trump-hotel-lawsuit-settlement.html)\n\n[![]()Checking Out: Trump Hotel Sale Will End an Era April 20, 2022](https:\/\/www.nytimes.com\/2022\/04\/20\/us\/politics\/trump-hotel-sale-washington.html)\n\n[![]()Selling Trump: A Profitable Post-Presidency Like No Other Feb. 12, 2022](https:\/\/www.nytimes.com\/2022\/02\/12\/us\/politics\/donald-trump-business-interests.html)\n\n**A correction was made on**\n\nMay 11, 2022\n\n:\n\nAn earlier version of this article misstated the year in which the average sales price for hotels in Washington was \\$354,000 per room. It was 2020, not 2002.\n\n***\nWhen we learn of a mistake, we acknowledge it with a correction. If you spot an error, please let us know at [corrections@nytimes.com](mailto:corrections@nytimes.com).[Learn more](https:\/\/www.nytimes.com\/explain\/2022\/new-york-times-journalism)\n\n[Eric Lipton](https:\/\/www.nytimes.com\/by\/eric-lipton) is a Washington-based investigative reporter. A three-time winner of the Pulitzer Prize, he previously worked at The Washington Post and The Hartford Courant.\n\nA version of this article appears in print on May 12, 2022, Section A, Page 19 of the New York edition with the headline: Trump Finishes Sale of Washington Hotel, a Magnet for Supporters and Squabbles. [Order Reprints](https:\/\/nytimes.wrightsmedia.com\/) \\| [Today’s Paper](https:\/\/www.nytimes.com\/section\/todayspaper) \\| [Subscribe](https:\/\/www.nytimes.com\/subscriptions\/Multiproduct\/lp8HYKU.html?campaignId=48JQY)\n\nSee more on: [U.S. Politics](https:\/\/www.nytimes.com\/section\/politics), [Donald Trump](https:\/\/www.nytimes.com\/spotlight\/donald-trump)\n\n- Share full article\n\n***\n## The Latest on the Trump Administration\n***\n- **Gregory Bovino Investigation:** The Department of Homeland Security has opened an internal investigation into a report that Bovino, a senior Border Patrol commander, [made disparaging remarks](https:\/\/www.nytimes.com\/2026\/03\/03\/us\/greg-bovino-investigation-dhs.html) about the Jewish faith of the top federal prosecutor in Minnesota during an immigration operation in the state.\n- **Cuts at Veterans Affairs:** The V.A. has [eliminated thousands of medical positions](https:\/\/www.nytimes.com\/2026\/03\/03\/us\/politics\/veterans-affairs-nurses-doctors-cut.html) that were left vacant after a wave of resignations and retirements last year, according to a New York Times analysis of internal agency records.\n- **Hiring at U.S.A.I.D.:** The Trump administration is hiring people to help wind down the remnants of the U.S. Agency for International Development after it was gutted last year. There’s just one caveat: [Former staff members need not apply](https:\/\/www.nytimes.com\/2026\/03\/02\/us\/politics\/usaid-hiring.html).\n- **Cuba:** President Miguel Díaz-Canel [called for an “urgent” transformation](https:\/\/www.nytimes.com\/2026\/03\/02\/world\/americas\/cuba-economy-change-communism.html) of the country’s economic model, according to Cuban state media, as Cuba confronts an oil blockade by the Trump administration that has deepened a humanitarian crisis on the island. And after U.S. military action in Iran and Venezuela, [many Cubans are wondering](https:\/\/www.nytimes.com\/2026\/03\/02\/world\/americas\/iran-attacks-cuba-trump.html) if the administration plans to target their country’s Communist government next.\n- **Sanctions on Rwanda:** The United States [imposed sanctions against Rwanda’s military](https:\/\/www.nytimes.com\/2026\/03\/02\/world\/africa\/rwanda-sanctions-trump-peace-m23.html) as punishment for actions that it said sabotaged a peace deal in the Democratic Republic of Congo. Rwanda’s government responded by claiming the sanctions unjustly targeted only one party to the conflict and misrepresented the facts.\n- **Trump’s Neck Rash:** President Trump’s physician said in a statement that the president was using a medicated cream as a “preventative” treatment of the skin condition, [which was seen extending out of his shirt collar behind his right ear](https:\/\/www.nytimes.com\/2026\/03\/02\/us\/politics\/trump-rash-neck.html). Dr. Barbabella did not say what the skin condition was or what medication Trump was taking.\n***\n**How We Report on the Trump Administration**\n\nHundreds of readers asked about our coverage of the president. 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questions — will become a Waldorf Astoria.\n\n![](https:\/\/static01.nyt.com\/images\/2022\/05\/09\/us\/politics\/00dc-hotel-sub\/merlin_206481771_ab1f9c2a-0801-4863-b959-0163af8cbaa5-articleLarge.jpg?quality=75&auto=webp&disable=upscale)\n\nThe hotel opened just a few weeks before Donald J. Trump was elected president in 2016 after a \\$200 million renovation of the once-decrepit building.Credit...Kenny Holston for The New York Times\n\nMay 11, 2022\n\nWASHINGTON — The Trump International Hotel in Washington is now officially out of business after the Trump family on Wednesday completed its sale to a Miami investor group, which plans to reopen it as a Waldorf Astoria.\n\nThe sale formally ended the Trump family’s business presence in Washington, although the family company still owns a golf course in Northern Virginia. The deal with the investor group, [CGI Merchant Group](https:\/\/cgimg.com\/), for a reported price of \\$375 million covers only the operation of the hotel, which is housed in a building leased from the federal government.\n\nThe new owners moved quickly to take control of the hotel, sending a crew out after dark on Wednesday to begin taking down the Trump signs, starting with the gold-plated family name above the main entrance.\n\nHotel industry executives have said the hotel had underperformed compared with other luxury hotels in the city, particularly since President Donald J. Trump left office, in part because some companies and travelers were reluctant to book rooms or hold events at the hotel given the controversies surrounding Mr. Trump. Those factors most likely contributed to the decision to sell the lease, they said.\n\nBut the 263-room hotel still pulled in an exceptionally high sale price, given its location on Pennsylvania Avenue, between the White House and the Capitol, and its presence inside a Washington landmark, the [Old Post Office Building](https:\/\/www.gsa.gov\/historic-buildings\/old-post-office-washington-dc), whose clock tower makes it one of the tallest buildings in the capital.\n\nThe average sales price for hotels in Washington in 2020 was \\$354,000 per room, according to a survey by JLL, a real estate firm. The reported price for the Trump hotel deal suggested a per-room price of more than \\$1 million, a level that surprised some veteran real estate executives in Washington.\n\nThe hotel, which opened just a few weeks before Mr. Trump was elected president in 2016 after a \\$200 million renovation of the once-decrepit building, [became a gathering place](https:\/\/www.nytimes.com\/2022\/04\/20\/us\/politics\/trump-hotel-sale-washington.html) for his supporters, members of his cabinet, lobbyists, Republicans in Congress and foreign leaders, some of whom were on their way to see Mr. Trump.\n\nImage\n\n![](https:\/\/static01.nyt.com\/images\/2022\/05\/11\/us\/11dc-trump-branding-removal\/merlin_206738958_555f5b0b-d81b-41a0-a0ec-b2e549503196-articleLarge.jpg?quality=75&auto=webp&disable=upscale)\n\nWorkers removing the Trump branding from what was the Trump International Hotel in Washington on Wednesday night.Credit...Kenny Holston for The New York Times\n\n“We took a dilapidated and underutilized building and transformed it into one of the most iconic hotels in the world,” Eric Trump, Mr. Trump’s son and an executive vice president of the Trump Organization, said in a statement on Wednesday announcing the closing of the sale.\n\nA spokesman for CGI declined to comment.\n\nBut since 2020, the hotel has generally seen sparse crowds in its sprawling lobby, including late last week, several days before the closing, when just a few tables were occupied at the lobby bar.\n\n“It is a beautiful property,” said David Lentz of Placentia, Calif., who visited the lobby last week. “Good for him, if Trump is making more money on it.”\n\nBut some would-be guests expressed frustration after they received calls telling them their reservations had been canceled. “They are just stiffing everyone,” said Jayson Woodbridge, a California winemaker who had a reservation for a weeklong stay at the hotel to attend his daughter’s graduation in the area.\n\nLast week, Mickael Damelincourt, the longtime manager of the hotel, moved from table to table to greet some of the regulars at the lobby bar, pausing to take photos with several of them in advance of the hotel’s sale. The BLT Prime restaurant at the property had already closed permanently, as had the Ivanka Trump spa, and the hotel itself was no longer taking room reservations.\n\nJust days before the sale closed, the Trump Organization and Mr. Trump’s 2017 inaugural committee [agreed to settle a lawsuit](https:\/\/www.nytimes.com\/2022\/05\/03\/us\/politics\/trump-hotel-lawsuit-settlement.html) filed by Karl A. Racine, the attorney general for the District of Columbia, who had claimed that the hotel had illegally received excessive payments from the inaugural committee, totaling more than \\$1 million.\n\nThe settlement in the civil suit came with no admission of wrongdoing by the Trump Organization, the former president or the inaugural committee.\n\nThose claims were among the many allegations in various lawsuits that Mr. Trump improperly profited from the presidency through payments made to the hotel by, among others, lobbyists and foreign governments. Suits from the State of Maryland and Democratic members of Congress cited the [emoluments clauses](https:\/\/www.nytimes.com\/2021\/01\/25\/us\/emoluments-trump-supreme-court.html) of the Constitution, which prohibit federal officials from accepting financial benefits from foreign governments without congressional approval.\n\nThe Trump family has paid the federal government a base rent of [\\$3 million a year](https:\/\/int.nyt.com\/data\/documenttools\/trump-hotel-taxes-exhibits-082916\/1e6938924f00b463\/full.pdf#page=9) for the Old Post Office Building, [according to its 2013 lease](https:\/\/int.nyt.com\/data\/documenttools\/opo-trump-lease\/be3acef243f1735c\/full.pdf). The sale will generate a profit of about \\$100 million for the family, once a loan taken out to pay for the renovations is paid off, [according to estimates](https:\/\/oversight.house.gov\/sites\/democrats.oversight.house.gov\/files\/2022-02-17.CBM%20GEC%20to%20Carnahan-GSA%20re%20Trump%20Hotel%20Lease.pdf) by House Democrats.\n\nThe contract with the federal government that the Trump Organization signed [called for the company to share some of its profits](https:\/\/int.nyt.com\/data\/documenttools\/trump-hotel-taxes-exhibits-082916\/1e6938924f00b463\/full.pdf#page=9) with the government if the hotel were sold. But a Trump Organization executive said the way the lease was written — allowing the Trump family to earn a 20 percent annual rate of return on equity put into the hotel project — meant there was not likely to be a large amount of such profit-sharing.\n\n**A correction was made on**\n\nMay 11, 2022\n\n:\n\nAn earlier version of this article misstated the year in which the average sales price for hotels in Washington was \\$354,000 per room. It was 2020, not 2002.\n\n[Eric Lipton](https:\/\/www.nytimes.com\/by\/eric-lipton) is a Washington-based investigative reporter. A three-time winner of the Pulitzer Prize, he previously worked at The Washington Post and The Hartford Courant.\n\nA version of this article appears in print on May 12, 2022, Section A, Page 19 of the New York edition with the headline: Trump Finishes Sale of Washington Hotel, a Magnet for Supporters and Squabbles. 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Boilerpipe Text	Advertisement SKIP ADVERTISEMENT The favored gathering place of Trump supporters — and a magnet for conflict of interest questions — will become a Waldorf Astoria. The hotel opened just a few weeks before Donald J. Trump was elected president in 2016 after a $200 million renovation of the once-decrepit building. Credit... Kenny Holston for The New York Times May 11, 2022 WASHINGTON — The Trump International Hotel in Washington is now officially out of business after the Trump family on Wednesday completed its sale to a Miami investor group, which plans to reopen it as a Waldorf Astoria. The sale formally ended the Trump family’s business presence in Washington, although the family company still owns a golf course in Northern Virginia. The deal with the investor group, CGI Merchant Group , for a reported price of $375 million covers only the operation of the hotel, which is housed in a building leased from the federal government. The new owners moved quickly to take control of the hotel, sending a crew out after dark on Wednesday to begin taking down the Trump signs, starting with the gold-plated family name above the main entrance. Hotel industry executives have said the hotel had underperformed compared with other luxury hotels in the city, particularly since President Donald J. Trump left office, in part because some companies and travelers were reluctant to book rooms or hold events at the hotel given the controversies surrounding Mr. Trump. Those factors most likely contributed to the decision to sell the lease, they said. But the 263-room hotel still pulled in an exceptionally high sale price, given its location on Pennsylvania Avenue, between the White House and the Capitol, and its presence inside a Washington landmark, the Old Post Office Building , whose clock tower makes it one of the tallest buildings in the capital. The average sales price for hotels in Washington in 2020 was $354,000 per room, according to a survey by JLL, a real estate firm. The reported price for the Trump hotel deal suggested a per-room price of more than $1 million, a level that surprised some veteran real estate executives in Washington. The hotel, which opened just a few weeks before Mr. Trump was elected president in 2016 after a $200 million renovation of the once-decrepit building, became a gathering place for his supporters, members of his cabinet, lobbyists, Republicans in Congress and foreign leaders, some of whom were on their way to see Mr. Trump. Image Workers removing the Trump branding from what was the Trump International Hotel in Washington on Wednesday night. Credit... Kenny Holston for The New York Times “We took a dilapidated and underutilized building and transformed it into one of the most iconic hotels in the world,” Eric Trump, Mr. Trump’s son and an executive vice president of the Trump Organization, said in a statement on Wednesday announcing the closing of the sale. A spokesman for CGI declined to comment. But since 2020, the hotel has generally seen sparse crowds in its sprawling lobby, including late last week, several days before the closing, when just a few tables were occupied at the lobby bar. “It is a beautiful property,” said David Lentz of Placentia, Calif., who visited the lobby last week. “Good for him, if Trump is making more money on it.” But some would-be guests expressed frustration after they received calls telling them their reservations had been canceled. “They are just stiffing everyone,” said Jayson Woodbridge, a California winemaker who had a reservation for a weeklong stay at the hotel to attend his daughter’s graduation in the area. Last week, Mickael Damelincourt, the longtime manager of the hotel, moved from table to table to greet some of the regulars at the lobby bar, pausing to take photos with several of them in advance of the hotel’s sale. The BLT Prime restaurant at the property had already closed permanently, as had the Ivanka Trump spa, and the hotel itself was no longer taking room reservations. Just days before the sale closed, the Trump Organization and Mr. Trump’s 2017 inaugural committee agreed to settle a lawsuit filed by Karl A. Racine, the attorney general for the District of Columbia, who had claimed that the hotel had illegally received excessive payments from the inaugural committee, totaling more than $1 million. The settlement in the civil suit came with no admission of wrongdoing by the Trump Organization, the former president or the inaugural committee. Those claims were among the many allegations in various lawsuits that Mr. Trump improperly profited from the presidency through payments made to the hotel by, among others, lobbyists and foreign governments. Suits from the State of Maryland and Democratic members of Congress cited the emoluments clauses of the Constitution, which prohibit federal officials from accepting financial benefits from foreign governments without congressional approval. The Trump family has paid the federal government a base rent of $3 million a year for the Old Post Office Building, according to its 2013 lease . The sale will generate a profit of about $100 million for the family, once a loan taken out to pay for the renovations is paid off, according to estimates by House Democrats. The contract with the federal government that the Trump Organization signed called for the company to share some of its profits with the government if the hotel were sold. But a Trump Organization executive said the way the lease was written — allowing the Trump family to earn a 20 percent annual rate of return on equity put into the hotel project — meant there was not likely to be a large amount of such profit-sharing. A correction was made on May 11, 2022 : An earlier version of this article misstated the year in which the average sales price for hotels in Washington was $354,000 per room. It was 2020, not 2002. Eric Lipton is a Washington-based investigative reporter. A three-time winner of the Pulitzer Prize, he previously worked at The Washington Post and The Hartford Courant. A version of this article appears in print on May 12, 2022 , Section A, Page 19 of the New York edition with the headline: Trump Finishes Sale of Washington Hotel, a Magnet for Supporters and Squabbles . 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Trump was elected president in 2016 after a \$200 million renovation of the once-decrepit building.Credit...Kenny Holston for The New York Times [![Eric Lipton](https://static01.nyt.com/images/2018/12/06/multimedia/author-eric-lipton/author-eric-lipton-thumbLarge.png)](https://www.nytimes.com/by/eric-lipton) By [Eric Lipton](https://www.nytimes.com/by/eric-lipton) May 11, 2022 WASHINGTON — The Trump International Hotel in Washington is now officially out of business after the Trump family on Wednesday completed its sale to a Miami investor group, which plans to reopen it as a Waldorf Astoria. The sale formally ended the Trump family’s business presence in Washington, although the family company still owns a golf course in Northern Virginia. The deal with the investor group, [CGI Merchant Group](https://cgimg.com/), for a reported price of \$375 million covers only the operation of the hotel, which is housed in a building leased from the federal government. The new owners moved quickly to take control of the hotel, sending a crew out after dark on Wednesday to begin taking down the Trump signs, starting with the gold-plated family name above the main entrance. Hotel industry executives have said the hotel had underperformed compared with other luxury hotels in the city, particularly since President Donald J. Trump left office, in part because some companies and travelers were reluctant to book rooms or hold events at the hotel given the controversies surrounding Mr. Trump. Those factors most likely contributed to the decision to sell the lease, they said. But the 263-room hotel still pulled in an exceptionally high sale price, given its location on Pennsylvania Avenue, between the White House and the Capitol, and its presence inside a Washington landmark, the [Old Post Office Building](https://www.gsa.gov/historic-buildings/old-post-office-washington-dc), whose clock tower makes it one of the tallest buildings in the capital. The average sales price for hotels in Washington in 2020 was \$354,000 per room, according to a survey by JLL, a real estate firm. The reported price for the Trump hotel deal suggested a per-room price of more than \$1 million, a level that surprised some veteran real estate executives in Washington. The hotel, which opened just a few weeks before Mr. Trump was elected president in 2016 after a \$200 million renovation of the once-decrepit building, [became a gathering place](https://www.nytimes.com/2022/04/20/us/politics/trump-hotel-sale-washington.html) for his supporters, members of his cabinet, lobbyists, Republicans in Congress and foreign leaders, some of whom were on their way to see Mr. Trump. ## Editors’ Picks [![](https://static01.nyt.com/images/2026/03/01/realestate/28re-ASK-ILLO/28re-ASK-ILLO-thumbLarge.jpg)Who Has the Right to That Parking Spot in Front of the Building?](https://www.nytimes.com/2026/02/28/realestate/parking-spaces-new-york-city.html) [![](https://static01.nyt.com/images/2026/02/28/magazine/28mag-ethicist/28mag-ethicist-thumbLarge.jpg)My Aging Mother Won’t Stop Driving. 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A spokesman for CGI declined to comment. But since 2020, the hotel has generally seen sparse crowds in its sprawling lobby, including late last week, several days before the closing, when just a few tables were occupied at the lobby bar. “It is a beautiful property,” said David Lentz of Placentia, Calif., who visited the lobby last week. “Good for him, if Trump is making more money on it.” But some would-be guests expressed frustration after they received calls telling them their reservations had been canceled. “They are just stiffing everyone,” said Jayson Woodbridge, a California winemaker who had a reservation for a weeklong stay at the hotel to attend his daughter’s graduation in the area. Last week, Mickael Damelincourt, the longtime manager of the hotel, moved from table to table to greet some of the regulars at the lobby bar, pausing to take photos with several of them in advance of the hotel’s sale. The BLT Prime restaurant at the property had already closed permanently, as had the Ivanka Trump spa, and the hotel itself was no longer taking room reservations. Just days before the sale closed, the Trump Organization and Mr. Trump’s 2017 inaugural committee [agreed to settle a lawsuit](https://www.nytimes.com/2022/05/03/us/politics/trump-hotel-lawsuit-settlement.html) filed by Karl A. Racine, the attorney general for the District of Columbia, who had claimed that the hotel had illegally received excessive payments from the inaugural committee, totaling more than \$1 million. The settlement in the civil suit came with no admission of wrongdoing by the Trump Organization, the former president or the inaugural committee. Those claims were among the many allegations in various lawsuits that Mr. Trump improperly profited from the presidency through payments made to the hotel by, among others, lobbyists and foreign governments. Suits from the State of Maryland and Democratic members of Congress cited the [emoluments clauses](https://www.nytimes.com/2021/01/25/us/emoluments-trump-supreme-court.html) of the Constitution, which prohibit federal officials from accepting financial benefits from foreign governments without congressional approval. The Trump family has paid the federal government a base rent of [\$3 million a year](https://int.nyt.com/data/documenttools/trump-hotel-taxes-exhibits-082916/1e6938924f00b463/full.pdf#page=9) for the Old Post Office Building, [according to its 2013 lease](https://int.nyt.com/data/documenttools/opo-trump-lease/be3acef243f1735c/full.pdf). The sale will generate a profit of about \$100 million for the family, once a loan taken out to pay for the renovations is paid off, [according to estimates](https://oversight.house.gov/sites/democrats.oversight.house.gov/files/2022-02-17.CBM%20GEC%20to%20Carnahan-GSA%20re%20Trump%20Hotel%20Lease.pdf) by House Democrats. The contract with the federal government that the Trump Organization signed [called for the company to share some of its profits](https://int.nyt.com/data/documenttools/trump-hotel-taxes-exhibits-082916/1e6938924f00b463/full.pdf#page=9) with the government if the hotel were sold. But a Trump Organization executive said the way the lease was written — allowing the Trump family to earn a 20 percent annual rate of return on equity put into the hotel project — meant there was not likely to be a large amount of such profit-sharing. The Trump Hotel in Washington [![]()Trump Settles Suit Over Payments to Hotel for 2017 Inauguration May 3, 2022](https://www.nytimes.com/2022/05/03/us/politics/trump-hotel-lawsuit-settlement.html) [![]()Checking Out: Trump Hotel Sale Will End an Era April 20, 2022](https://www.nytimes.com/2022/04/20/us/politics/trump-hotel-sale-washington.html) [![]()Selling Trump: A Profitable Post-Presidency Like No Other Feb. 12, 2022](https://www.nytimes.com/2022/02/12/us/politics/donald-trump-business-interests.html) A correction was made on May 11, 2022 : An earlier version of this article misstated the year in which the average sales price for hotels in Washington was \$354,000 per room. It was 2020, not 2002. * When we learn of a mistake, we acknowledge it with a correction. If you spot an error, please let us know at [corrections@nytimes.com](mailto:corrections@nytimes.com).[Learn more](https://www.nytimes.com/explain/2022/new-york-times-journalism) [Eric Lipton](https://www.nytimes.com/by/eric-lipton) is a Washington-based investigative reporter. A three-time winner of the Pulitzer Prize, he previously worked at The Washington Post and The Hartford Courant. A version of this article appears in print on May 12, 2022, Section A, Page 19 of the New York edition with the headline: Trump Finishes Sale of Washington Hotel, a Magnet for Supporters and Squabbles. 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Readable Markdown	Advertisement [SKIP ADVERTISEMENT](https://www.nytimes.com/2022/05/11/us/politics/trump-hotel-sale-washington.html#after-top) The favored gathering place of Trump supporters — and a magnet for conflict of interest questions — will become a Waldorf Astoria. ![](https://static01.nyt.com/images/2022/05/09/us/politics/00dc-hotel-sub/merlin_206481771_ab1f9c2a-0801-4863-b959-0163af8cbaa5-articleLarge.jpg?quality=75&auto=webp&disable=upscale) The hotel opened just a few weeks before Donald J. Trump was elected president in 2016 after a \$200 million renovation of the once-decrepit building.Credit...Kenny Holston for The New York Times May 11, 2022 WASHINGTON — The Trump International Hotel in Washington is now officially out of business after the Trump family on Wednesday completed its sale to a Miami investor group, which plans to reopen it as a Waldorf Astoria. The sale formally ended the Trump family’s business presence in Washington, although the family company still owns a golf course in Northern Virginia. The deal with the investor group, [CGI Merchant Group](https://cgimg.com/), for a reported price of \$375 million covers only the operation of the hotel, which is housed in a building leased from the federal government. The new owners moved quickly to take control of the hotel, sending a crew out after dark on Wednesday to begin taking down the Trump signs, starting with the gold-plated family name above the main entrance. Hotel industry executives have said the hotel had underperformed compared with other luxury hotels in the city, particularly since President Donald J. Trump left office, in part because some companies and travelers were reluctant to book rooms or hold events at the hotel given the controversies surrounding Mr. Trump. Those factors most likely contributed to the decision to sell the lease, they said. But the 263-room hotel still pulled in an exceptionally high sale price, given its location on Pennsylvania Avenue, between the White House and the Capitol, and its presence inside a Washington landmark, the [Old Post Office Building](https://www.gsa.gov/historic-buildings/old-post-office-washington-dc), whose clock tower makes it one of the tallest buildings in the capital. The average sales price for hotels in Washington in 2020 was \$354,000 per room, according to a survey by JLL, a real estate firm. The reported price for the Trump hotel deal suggested a per-room price of more than \$1 million, a level that surprised some veteran real estate executives in Washington. The hotel, which opened just a few weeks before Mr. Trump was elected president in 2016 after a \$200 million renovation of the once-decrepit building, [became a gathering place](https://www.nytimes.com/2022/04/20/us/politics/trump-hotel-sale-washington.html) for his supporters, members of his cabinet, lobbyists, Republicans in Congress and foreign leaders, some of whom were on their way to see Mr. Trump. Image ![](https://static01.nyt.com/images/2022/05/11/us/11dc-trump-branding-removal/merlin_206738958_555f5b0b-d81b-41a0-a0ec-b2e549503196-articleLarge.jpg?quality=75&auto=webp&disable=upscale) Workers removing the Trump branding from what was the Trump International Hotel in Washington on Wednesday night.Credit...Kenny Holston for The New York Times “We took a dilapidated and underutilized building and transformed it into one of the most iconic hotels in the world,” Eric Trump, Mr. Trump’s son and an executive vice president of the Trump Organization, said in a statement on Wednesday announcing the closing of the sale. A spokesman for CGI declined to comment. But since 2020, the hotel has generally seen sparse crowds in its sprawling lobby, including late last week, several days before the closing, when just a few tables were occupied at the lobby bar. “It is a beautiful property,” said David Lentz of Placentia, Calif., who visited the lobby last week. “Good for him, if Trump is making more money on it.” But some would-be guests expressed frustration after they received calls telling them their reservations had been canceled. “They are just stiffing everyone,” said Jayson Woodbridge, a California winemaker who had a reservation for a weeklong stay at the hotel to attend his daughter’s graduation in the area. Last week, Mickael Damelincourt, the longtime manager of the hotel, moved from table to table to greet some of the regulars at the lobby bar, pausing to take photos with several of them in advance of the hotel’s sale. The BLT Prime restaurant at the property had already closed permanently, as had the Ivanka Trump spa, and the hotel itself was no longer taking room reservations. Just days before the sale closed, the Trump Organization and Mr. Trump’s 2017 inaugural committee [agreed to settle a lawsuit](https://www.nytimes.com/2022/05/03/us/politics/trump-hotel-lawsuit-settlement.html) filed by Karl A. Racine, the attorney general for the District of Columbia, who had claimed that the hotel had illegally received excessive payments from the inaugural committee, totaling more than \$1 million. The settlement in the civil suit came with no admission of wrongdoing by the Trump Organization, the former president or the inaugural committee. Those claims were among the many allegations in various lawsuits that Mr. Trump improperly profited from the presidency through payments made to the hotel by, among others, lobbyists and foreign governments. Suits from the State of Maryland and Democratic members of Congress cited the [emoluments clauses](https://www.nytimes.com/2021/01/25/us/emoluments-trump-supreme-court.html) of the Constitution, which prohibit federal officials from accepting financial benefits from foreign governments without congressional approval. The Trump family has paid the federal government a base rent of [\$3 million a year](https://int.nyt.com/data/documenttools/trump-hotel-taxes-exhibits-082916/1e6938924f00b463/full.pdf#page=9) for the Old Post Office Building, [according to its 2013 lease](https://int.nyt.com/data/documenttools/opo-trump-lease/be3acef243f1735c/full.pdf). The sale will generate a profit of about \$100 million for the family, once a loan taken out to pay for the renovations is paid off, [according to estimates](https://oversight.house.gov/sites/democrats.oversight.house.gov/files/2022-02-17.CBM%20GEC%20to%20Carnahan-GSA%20re%20Trump%20Hotel%20Lease.pdf) by House Democrats. The contract with the federal government that the Trump Organization signed [called for the company to share some of its profits](https://int.nyt.com/data/documenttools/trump-hotel-taxes-exhibits-082916/1e6938924f00b463/full.pdf#page=9) with the government if the hotel were sold. But a Trump Organization executive said the way the lease was written — allowing the Trump family to earn a 20 percent annual rate of return on equity put into the hotel project — meant there was not likely to be a large amount of such profit-sharing. A correction was made on May 11, 2022 : An earlier version of this article misstated the year in which the average sales price for hotels in Washington was \$354,000 per room. It was 2020, not 2002. [Eric Lipton](https://www.nytimes.com/by/eric-lipton) is a Washington-based investigative reporter. A three-time winner of the Pulitzer Prize, he previously worked at The Washington Post and The Hartford Courant. A version of this article appears in print on May 12, 2022, Section A, Page 19 of the New York edition with the headline: Trump Finishes Sale of Washington Hotel, a Magnet for Supporters and Squabbles. 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