Thread by @Fahrenthold

We've been on the Trump Org beat for 4 years now. But it hasn't all been filling in spreadsheets and fighting over FOIAs.

Sometimes, it was even a little funny.

While we're all waiting for news today, I thought you might like a rundown of the more humorous moments:

6. I'm at the Trump Hotel in D.C., for a story on the MAGA/RNC party scene. There's *1* couch where I can sit w/out having to buy anything. This couch is my island. I sit for an hour, then get up to stroll the lobby.

Come back.

2 people are passionately making out on my island

I waited for them to stop. They did not acknowledge me.

Lesson for young journalists: if you find a good couch, and you have to get up, take the couch with you.

Here's the story we wrote: washingtonpost.com/politics/its-o…

5.) When Trump Org lost its SoHo hotel, I wanted a photo of the sign coming down. But I was afraid they'd do it in the middle of the nite.

My plan: Set alarm to wake up every hour. Appear hourly in lobby, like a bedraggled cuckoo clock, to wordlessly inspect front facade.

It didn't work. In the morning, I felt horrible and the Trump Soho sign was still up. It came down the next night, after I was gone.

I did get a good quote from a bellman, about the end of the Trump era: "That's the [new] name. The Nobody Knows Hotel."
washingtonpost.com/politics/a-qui…

4.) One of the fun things about covering Trump Turnberry (in Scotland) has been quoting Scottish people.

The hard part comes afterward: checking the quotes. Had the person used a delightful Scottish idiom? Or had we misheard them b/c of the accent, & written down utter nonsense?

For instance: which of these is a correct quote with a real Scottish idiom?

1. "I don't actually have a Scooby."

2. "They require the taxpayer dollar, and at the end of it, they keep the staff in the tweak."

Number one. It means "I don't have a clue." Because Scooby Doo...you get it.

Without our intrepid Scottish stringer @nashriggins, I wouldn't have been sure about that one.

Here's the story with the Scot and the Scooby:
washingtonpost.com/politics/a-tim…

3.) The salad at Mar-a-Lago.
I've only eaten 1 meal at @realdonaldtrump's Palm Beach club, covering a group of very welcoming Trump super-fans called "Trumpettes USA."

The club was very luxe. The salad was mystifying.

First layer: one-inch-thick disk of lettuce, sliced vertically and impenetrable. This was used like a green plate, to display other ingredients.
Second layer: Whole strawberries, goat cheese, walnuts.

It looked like the first salad ever, when we had the parts but not the plan.

2.) The majority owner of the Trump-branded hotel in Panama was trying to push Trump Org out. It got nasty: there was a fistfight between staffers. Police were called.

Then it got surreal: the majority owner celebrated his gains by playing "Fur Elise" on the lobby piano.

Here's that story, witnessed and videotaped by the great @partlowj.

washingtonpost.com/world/the_amer…

1.) The Trumpettes at Mar-a-Lago. A mashup of political rally & talent show.

A speaker praised Trump's work for African Americans. Then, the spotlight swung to a Trumpette, leaning on a piano.

"She gets too hungry, for dinner at 8."

She was going to sing The Lady is a Tramp.