What Could Fit Inside the New Trump Hotel in DC? [Infographic]

by John Egan

February 02, 2017

The new Trump International Hotel in Washington, DC, continues to generate protest (mainly from President Trump’s political foes) and praise (most notably from Trump, his family and his White House aides). It’s simultaneously a center of opulence and opposition.

Housed in the grand Old Post Office, just a few blocks from the White House, the 298-room hotel (263 traditional rooms and 35 suites) opened in October 2016. As of early February 2017, the Trump hotel chain, in a controversial arrangement, still was leasing the Romanesque Revival-style property from the General Services Administration (GSA), the federal government’s landlord.

Crying foul over ethics violations, critics have called on the GSA to rip up its lease with the Trump hotel chain, as the agreement states no elected federal official can be a party to the deal. Trump’s defenders have noted that the new president has turned over the reins of his business ventures -- including the hotel chain -- to his two adult sons, thus distancing him from the GSA lease.

Wherever you stand on the hotel brouhaha, there’s no denying that DC’s Trump International Hotel is having its time in the spotlight. Given the heightened stature of the hotel, we wanted to take a look at how the Old Post Office measures up -- on a square-footage basis -- against other well-known structures in DC and in Trump’s sphere, such as the Lincoln Memorial and the Mar-a-Lago estate. The infographic below shows how many of each of these structures could be packed, like sardines, into the hotel.

Top photo: JES Foundation Repair