saudi spending at trump s new york hotel turned a red quarter black. and the paper uncovered that after trump became president saudi arab saudi customers increased at his company hotel in chicago. in d.c. the foreign guests have landed the hotel at the center of a federal lawsuit filed against the president by the attorney generals of maryland and washington, d.c. you ask them exactly why they re staying at the trump hotel, they re very clear. they tell you that they re here to show the president honor and of course we know they re here also to act in their country s best interests. honor. that s the word they use? yes, they re here to curry favor. it s a violation of the constitution for a president to receive presents or profits from foreign governments while in office. we know that president trump, every day, is receiving monies from foreign countries.
love about this project is the fact that it s in baja, mexico and baja is one of the really hot places. for sandra sapol in suburban san diego, having a second home, especially one in baja is a dream. not everybody s is the same american dream. ours was, have a family, have a pickett fence and have that second property. it s why she bought a condo at one of those trump licensed properties. trump ocean resort, baja, mexico. only problem was, she didn t know that she was buying into a property this was supposed to be my view. that had licensed the trump name. these are the rest of this project. i own a franchise. i totally know the word licenseor, licensee but i had never heard it from the mouths of anyone representing trump
also developing the super luxurious trump international hotel and tower, fort lauderdale. so you would disagree certainly with that sentence being in there. the word developing, it doesn t mean that we re the developer. there were multiple lawsuits in fort lauderdale. most were settled. the terms are secret. in the two suits that went to trial, jurors were shown the prospectus which identified the developer as someone other than trump. trump won. the trumps didn t require these developments to be successful to earn money. it s because trump got a fixed fee from the developer, who licensed his name. plus, millions more as the condo sales were completed, even if the building went bankrupt. when they failed, which they frequently did, the trumps would make money and they would say oh, we weren t we weren t the developers. we were never the developer of this project and that was made clear. we were just the licensers. we are not responsible for your
we don t need sales team. we don t need a design team, a product team, we don t need sourcing and quality control. distribution. as promising as this new direction seems, alana warns it comes with its special risk. one of the hardest things we find with a licenseor you need to trust, that s one of the hardest. mei must trust me that we ll be able to execute the production, sourcing, shipping, billing her product. and i pay her a fee for that privilege. the new licensing model gives the bulk of the profits to manufacturers like hugh. mei only get as fraction as a fee. however, as the license owner mei can rework the designs into additional products each one generating additional license fees. we want to hit home textiles, rugs, wall decor, home decor, luggage or whatever the category, stationary. if you knew then what you
tough take. when you are a licenseor, you have to go out and sell it. if they aren t knocking down your door, how are they going to sell it later on. his product is so simple. it s a fake lime that s a bottle opener. how do you see that and know it s not just a product, it s a whole business. i can make money off this. that s the thing. inspiration comes. take elements and inspiration and figure out what to do with it. he may have thought it s cool. he may have had 12 others, but he decided to pursue this. to be open to inspiration, you never know where it s going to come from. the guy from corona said we take submission that is aren t patented, but it helps. how do you know if it s worth the time? it can be expensive. some people go for patents as