Black Lives Matter graffiti scrawled on Trump's new D.C. hotel
WASHINGTON -- Donald Trump’s new luxury hotel in downtown Washington has been vandalized.
District of Columbia police say someone spray-painted the phrases “black lives matter” and “no justice no peace” on the front of the building on Saturday afternoon.
Photos of the graffiti were shared widely on social media:
On Sunday, the phrases were covered up with pieces of plywood.
Police spokeswoman Aquita Brown said Sunday that police have not identified any suspects. The incident occurred just after 4 p.m. Saturday, and police are investigating.
The Trump International Hotel opened on Sept. 12. The Trump Organization won a 60-year lease from the federal government to transform the historic Old Post Office building on Pennsylvania Avenue into a hotel. Rooms at the hotel start at just under $400 a night.
The Trump hotel was the site of one infamous campaign event last month, when the GOP nominee finally put behind him years of propagating false rumors that President Obama was not born in the United States.
“Obama was born in the United States. Period,” Trump said in September, laying to rest a controversy that many have long criticized as a racist attack on the nation’s first black president.
A publicist for the hotel declined to comment on Sunday.