Waiter Claims Hannity Spent $42k in One Weekend at Trump Hotel, Ate Massive Lobster

Sean Hannity, Fox News anchor and millionaire-populist, racked up a $45,000 tab at Trump Hotel in Washington D.C. over the weekend of President Donald Trump’s inauguration, according to a waiter quoted by GQ.

GQ’s Irina Aleksander spent a week inside the Trump International Hotel on Pennsylvania Avenue, a short dash from the White House, and wrote an extensive piece on her experience there.

And according to one unnamed waiter at the hotel Aleksander spoke to, Hannity spent the weekend of Trump’s inauguration at the Trump International, where “suites were renting for as much as $18,000 a night.”

What’s more, the Trump mega-fan apparently treated himself to thousands of dollars worth of hotel treats, including a massive imported lobster:

That same weekend, according to one forthcoming waiter, Fox News host Sean Hannity ran up a $42,000 tab in the restaurant, which included the cost of flying in an eight-pound 70-year-old lobster from Maine.

Now, this remark from an unnamed waiter could very well be a piece of exaggerated workplace gossip, and GQ notes that Fox News “denied the story on Hannity’s behalf.”

And Hannity predictably took to Twitter to call the story “FAKE NEWS!!”:

FAKE NEWS!! Ridiculous Fake News!! NEVER HAPPENED. https://t.co/Muleg7VpPH

— Sean Hannity (@seanhannity) July 27, 2017

Whether or not it happened, one cannot help but remember a simpler time, when Hannity criticized former President Barack Obama as an elitist after he ordered a “fancy burger” with mustard on it.

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