Press banned from Trump’s DC hotel: report

Members of the media are not allowed on the premises of the Trump International Hotel in Washington during inauguration week, Politico reported.

“Media is not allowed in this week in respect of the privacy of our guests,” Patricia Tang, the hotel’s director of sales and marketing wrote in an email to the publication.

A Politico reporter was stopped and told “media” were not allowed in the building when he tried to enter the hotel on Wednesday morning for a breakfast meeting.

{mosads}The hotel at the time was surrounded by metal barricades while police officers stood nearby the location.

Members of the media have raised questions about what kind of access they will have to Donald Trump’s incoming administration when the president-elect assumes office later this week.

Trump often rails on the media, accusing reporters of dishonest and biased coverage against him.

Trump and his three adult children in 2012 won a bid to redevelop D.C.’s Old Post Office into a luxury hotel. They have a lease for the property with the federal General Services Administration.