Trump: This is why I should be president
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DONALD Trump says his new Washington hotel serves as a testament to why he should be president. Hillary Clinton says Trump is “the poster boy for everything wrong with our economy.”
“Under budget and ahead of schedule. So important. We don’t hear those words so often, but you will,” said Trump, linking the hotel redevelopment — just blocks from the White House — to his promised performance as president. “Today is a metaphor for what we can accomplish for this country.”
Trump’s political aspirations have long been deeply intertwined with promoting his corporate goals. He announced his campaign in the gilded lobby of Trump Tower in Manhattan and has held dozens of campaign events at his own properties. His remarks at his new Washington hotel, which has struggled to fill rooms amid the controversy surrounding his presidential bid, followed a visit to his Doral golf course outside Miami on Tuesday.
In Charlotte, later on Wednesday, Trump unveiled what he billed a “New Deal for black America” in front of a mostly white crowd. Trump, who has struggled to earn the support of minority voters, bemoaned that “too many African-Americans have been left behind” and unveiled a handful of new proposals aimed at revitalizing impoverished urban areas.
They included new tax incentives for inner cities, new micro-loans for African Americans to start companies and hire workers and reinvestment of money from suspended refugee programs in inner cities.
He also wants cities to be able to seek federal disaster designations to help them rebuild and invest in law enforcement.
As Trump cut the ribbon at his Washington hotel, Clinton was slamming his business practices in Florida, a state he must win to have any chance on November 8.
Trump’s unusual travel schedule, coming amid signs the controversy surrounding his campaign has hurt his corporate brand, raises questions about whether he has begun to focus on postelection plans.
Trump supporters defended his strategy, blasting critics for not making as big a deal of Clinton’s decision to attend an Adele concert on Tuesday night.
“I can’t take one hour off to cut a ribbon at one of the great hotels of the world? I mean, I think I’m entitled to it,” he told ABC News.
Clinton told reporters: “I was struck today that Donald Trump was paying more attention to his business than to the campaign.”
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