LAS VEGAS — If Donald Trump is elected president, White House staffers wouldn’t be allowed to stay in most of his American hotels when they travel on government business.
Of the six U.S. properties included in the Trump Hotel Collection, five are not on the federal government’s list of “fire safe” hotels and motels approved for federal employees by the Federal Emergency Management Agency.
The Trump International Hotel and Tower in Chicago is the only property that can be found on the Hotel-Motel National Master List, which was created as part of the Hotel and Motel Fire Safety Act of 1990.
In order to appear on the master list, hotels must first have at least one single-station and hard-wired smoke alarm in each room, and also have an automatic fire sprinkler system in each guest room for buildings that are four or more stories tall. After meeting these basic requirements, hotels must still submit an application to be approved by FEMA for U.S. federal government employees.
Although hotels are not required by law to join the list, venues that aren’t on the registry cannot conduct business with or host government employees. Federal employees will not be reimbursed for nights they spend at non-fire safe hotels, nor can they spend money at conferences or events that take place inside the unlisted hotels.
That said, just because a hotel is not on the list does not deem it unsafe.
Local fire departments in Las Vegas and Waikiki, Hawaii, where two Trump hotels are located, told The Huffington Post there were currently no fire concerns at the venues — neither of the hotels is on the list.