'My boys were JUST LIKE ME!'
A quick update on the real estate development careers of Donald Jr. and Eric Trump, who are super-geniuses! Back in 2016, the Trump Organization announced it would build a great big chain of upscale hotels that wouldn't have the "Trump" brand. Instead, the new hotels would be called "Scion," because as a press release helpfully reminded journalists, scion "means 'descendant of a notable family,'" so these new hotels are like the offspring of the king of hotels. Please pay no attention to the tiny detail that it's also the name of Toyota's failed line of sporty-ish little cars millennials didn't buy enough of, because they were ugly. (FORESHADOWING?) At the time, Donald Trump hadn't yet held that presser with all the empty folders to announce he was putting his business in a nearsighted trust to be run by Eric And Don Jr., but hey, what a nice coincidence. Now the scions were in charge of Scion, and also a second hotel chain called "American Idea."
But as the Washington Post reports, the new brands are not experiencing meteoric growth. Of the 39 properties announced just after Trump took office, only three are actually being built, and they're all in Mississippi. Not a single hotel outside Mississippi has gotten underway. But maybe that's simply because the Trump Boys are such geniuses that they want to make sure every last detail is perfect. That, or they're still learning how to stiff contractors.
Sadly, the Trump Boys just seem a tad slow in getting their very own hotel empire off the ground:
