Daily Beast: “Given the actual election results, you could expect the Trump International Hotel in Washington, D.C., to stand all but empty on Inauguration Day. After all, you would think that not even the most fervent deniers of President Trump’s defeat would check in there come January really thinking their guy and not Joe Biden will be inaugurated. But as Trump’s baseless falsehoods and groundless legal challenges proved futile, too many of his supporters have become only more determined to believe that it’s not over even when it’s truly over. And, on Monday, the delusion that Trump still might get a second term was so persistent among some Trumpoids that his hotel remained booked solid on the days surrounding the Jan. 20 ceremony.”

“The person who answered the reservation line reported that every room had been taken ‘for some time.’ What Trump follower would not dream of staying in this late 19th century edifice of stone and colored brick with its 315-foot clock tower? Trump had opened the hotel just two months before the last presidential election, and he had lost millions on it since then despite the many lobbyists and foreign diplomats who sought the administration’s favor by staying there. But the hotel stood with that name TRUMP on it as if it belonged between the White House and Capitol, as if a TRUMP presidency were destiny. And you could be part of it by staying there.”