The old post office which is now a Trump hotel
The Trump administration has located funding to reopen the historic clock tower that tops the president’s luxury hotel despite the government shutdown.
The public maintains access to the clock and bell tower of the Old Post Office despite the Trump Organization’s 60-year lease with the government to run a hotel inside the historic building.
It continues to be an attraction for hotel guests and residents alike, and is normally open for free tours throughout the week.
But the tower was shuttered Dec. 22 at the beginning of the partial government shutdown due to a lapse in funding that shuttered National Parks across the country, which operates it.
It as just one of many cites closing amid a standoff that has led the National Zoo in Washington and Smithsonian buildings to close their doors to the public.
Now, another federal entity, the General Service Agency, has stepped in with funds to reopen the tower, E&E News reported.
The funds will cover […]
Covering a void in our National Parks servicing, is understandable.
But I predict,,, that old clock will speed up here quickly -to the dismay of some, and that same bell, will clang, and clang, and clang, and no one will be listening.
P.S. I puked.