T-Mobile executives stayed at Trump’s hotel while merger that needed administration’s approval was pending

Source: The Hill | January 16, 2019 | Morgan Gstalter

Nine top executives from T-Mobile booked reservations at Trump International Hotel in Washington, D.C. one day after it was announced that T-Mobile’s merger with Sprint would require the administration’s approval.

T-Mobile executives stayed at the hotel for at least 38 nights during 2018, according to lists obtained by The Washington Post. 

The first hotel visit, including nine of T-Mobile’s top executives, was scheduled in April after the $26 billion merger deal with rival Sprint was announced.

The merger requires several federal agencies, including the Justice Department and the Federal Communications Commission, to sign off on the deal.

The Post obtained about a dozen 2018 VIP Arrivals lists which are provided to hotel staff when foreign officials, executives and Trump family friends are customers at the hotel.

The newspaper noted that the data obtained from the lists is incomplete so the number of times T-Mobile executives stayed at the hotel could be higher.

T-Mobile chief executive John Legere’s visit to the hotel also came after his past criticisms of the president, including a Twitter spat with Trump in April 2015 when the then-business mogul called T-Mobile’s service “terrible.”

“I will obviously leave your hotel right away,” Legere wrote in a now-deleted tweet.

After checking out of the Trump hotel in New York, Legere took to Twitter to mock Trump, according to news coverage at the time.

“I am so happy to wake up in a hotel where every single item isn’t labeled ‘Trump,’” he wrote in another now-deleted tweet.

Legere visited the Trump D.C. hotel lobby at least four times in 2018, often seen wearing attire featuring a large magenta T-Mobile logo, The Post reported.

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