‘What Trial?’ Indifference Reigns at Trump Properties as Impeachment Proceeds
- Life goes on at ex-president’s U.S. stores and skyscrapers
- ‘What trial?’ says a tourist at NYC’s Trump-managed ice rink
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The diamonds were sparkling in New York. A carpenter working at a San Francisco skyscraper shrugged. There were no bar specials at the hotel near the White House, just a menu that includes cocktails called Belle of Congress and Bitter Life.
As the Senate began Donald Trump’s second impeachment trial, indifference reigned at properties across the billionaire’s empire on Tuesday. There were moments of disgust and adoration from some tenants, workers and customers, but mostly they seemed not to care -- or even know -- about what was going on inside Congress.