Chief among the many norms Donald Trump has shattered during his time in office is the absolute shamelessness with which he profits off the presidency. For instance, he regularly hosts foreign heads of state at his for-profit club, Mar-a-Lago, where the admission price doubled shortly before the inauguration. (Taxpayers have spent an estimated $64 million ferrying him there, with thousands going directly to the resort’s coffers.) His business promotes deals overseas, but claims everything is cool because said deals were struck prior to November 8, 2016. Those visiting D.C. know the best way to grease the wheels is to patronize Trump’s establishments—“Why wouldn’t I stay at his hotel blocks from the White House, so I can tell the new president, ‘I love your new hotel!’” an Asian diplomat told The Washington Post shortly after the election. And in an effort to get on Trump’s good side, foreign governments have reportedly “donated public land, approved permits, and eased environmental regulations for Trump-branded developments, creating a slew of potential conflicts.”

All this strikes the Trump family as completely legit, yet some have been (completely unfairly!) critical of the president’s financial entanglements. Certain parties have even had the nerve to sue the Trump Organization, claiming the president is violating the Emoluments Clause of the Constitution, whatever that means. And now, things have gotten so bad that Trump’s eldest sons have had to walk away from a project that stood to make them bank, all because of some haters and losers that won’t mind their own business.

President Donald Trump’s company is scrapping plans for two new hotel chains announced two years ago, casting blame in part on a hostile political environment.

The Trump Organization said Thursday that it will no longer try to open hotels under its Scion and American Idea brands catering to budget and mid-priced travelers, a departure from its focus on luxury hotels. The announcement comes as the company has posted losses at a few of its golf properties, and brand experts say it has lost some of its appeal.

“We live in a climate where everything will be used against us, whether by the fake news or by Democrats who are only interested in presidential harassment and wasting everyone’s time, barraging us with nonsense letters,” Eric Trump said in a statement announcing the company’s decision. “We already have the greatest properties in the world, and if we have to slow down our growth for the time being, we are happy to do it.”

Trump’s insistence on profiting off the Executive Office of the President, of course, is not the only issue the Trump Organization has had to deal with. The company has also received some unflattering press over its employment of undocumented workers, at a time when Trump rages against immigrants almost daily, and its subsequent firing of about two dozen. And, of course, there‘s the matter of Michael Cohen’s hush-money payments to two women during the presidential campaign, for which the Trump Organization reimbursed him for one of those payments, and which “is itself a focus of the ongoing investigation.”

All that scrutiny, it seems, has made the Trump boys extra sensitive. Last February, as he shilled condos in India, Don Jr. told reporters that when people talk about the Trump Organization “profiteering from the presidency and all this nonsense,” they fail to mention “the opportunity cost of the deals that we were not able to do.” That, Donny moaned, is “sort of a shame. Because we put on all these impositions on ourselves and essentially got no credit for actually doing that . . . for doing the right thing.”

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