President Trump said he’s “OK” with the closure of his Trump International Hotel Las Vegas due to Nevada’s Gov. Steve Sisolak’s executive order despite Las Vegas Mayor Carolyn Goodman’s supplications to lift the lockdown.
“They closed a big hotel down in Nevada that I have in Las Vegas,” Trump said at a Sunday morning briefing at The White House. “It’s a very severe step he took. I’m OK with it, but you could call that one either way.”
When asked with whom he sided—the governor, who wants to extend the emergency law, or independent Mayor Carolyn Goodman, who wants to reopen the city as soon as possible—the president remained aloof.
“I’m not involved with that. I could be if I wanted to,” he said. “I know the mayor is very upset with it. Some (hotel and casino) owners are very upset with it. Some of the developers out there are upset. Others say, ‘Hey, we have to get rid of it.’ I can see both sides of that.”
Instead, Trump indicated that lifting the ban was something up to the concerned parties themselves. “I don’t know that they’re working on that specific problem, but it’s a problem they should be talking about,” he said.
Las Vegas independent Mayor Carolyn Goodman previously called the shutdown of the city “total insanity,” saying it is “killing us.”
“This shutdown has become one of total insanity, in my opinion,” Goodman said during a City Council meeting on April 15. “For there is no backup of data as to why we are shut down from the start, no plan in place how to move through the shutdown or how even to come out of it.”
Goodman noted that a relatively small number of the city’s population has died from the CCP (Chinese Communist Party) virus, a novel coronavirus that emerged from mainland China and causes the disease COVID-19.
Goodman added that some 900,000 people had lost their jobs, and 300,000 have filed for unemployment.
“These are families that no longer have the ability to buy food for their children and other loved ones. Pay their bills. Pay their rent. Pay their mortgage. Pay their car payment. Or enjoy the life that they had prior to this shutdown,” she said. “It makes no sense. It makes no sense.”
