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US President Donald Trump has planned to host an election night party at his own hotel in Washington D.C. The campaign pushed out fundraising emails in the president’s name offering donors the chance to enter a drawing to join Team Trump at the Election Night Party in his favorite hotel, in Washington. Trump also suggested that he will use his luxury hotel as the backdrop for reacting to election results. President delivered his words in a fundraising solicitation and said, “November 3rd will go down in history as the night we won FOUR MORE YEARS. It will be absolutely EPIC, and the only thing that could make it better is having YOU there”. Point to be noted that Trump’s election night party at his own hotel is symbolic for a businessman who leveraged his celebrity as a reality star and New York real estate magnate.

Trump’s supposed election night party is now under criticism as one more reminder of how the president has used his office to personally profit as foreign leaders, conservative supporters and administration officials use the lobby of Washington’s Trump International Hotel as an unofficial clubhouse for the Trump presidency. It is noteworthy that President and Republican National Committee have held several fundraisers at the president’s Washington hotel in the historic Old Post Office building since 2017. The Trump campaign, the RNC, and their joint-fundraising committees have spent more than $7.4 million at Trump-branded properties during his presidency. The Washington hotel has been sold out for weeks for Election Day as well as the days before and after 3^rd November.

The deputy director of the nonprofit government watchdog group Citizens for Responsibility and Ethics in Washington said, “Donald Trump has spent his entire presidency funneling taxpayer, campaign, special interest, and foreign government money into the business that he still owns. In some ways, election night is going to be the pinnacle of his self-dealing”. The White House referred questions on the president’s election night plans to the Trump campaign, but it is unclear how big Trump’s election night party will be. President hosted hundreds of people on the White House grounds for an Independence Day weekend celebration for his Republican National Convention speech in August. He arranged a similar gathering at last month’s Rose Garden announcement of the nomination of Judge Amy Coney Barrett to the Supreme Court.