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Donald Trump's name is being scrapped from a Hawaii hotel as part of a new rebranding effort, reported Spectrum News 13 on Friday.

Trump International Hotel Waikiki will become Wakea Waikiki Beach, developer Irongate and manager LXR Hotels and Resorts told the news station.

Trump Hotels issued its own release announcing a "significant buyout" of hotel management and license agreements for the Hawaii hotel, according to the report. ...

WASHINGTON – During Donald Trump’s one-term presidency, his namesake hotel, five blocks down Pennsylvania Avenue from the White House, endlessly hummed with political wheeling and personal dealing.

It served as the unofficial clubhouse for the First Family, Republican lawmakers, lobbyists, foreign dignitaries, monied donors and future convicts — from Roger Stone to Paul Manafort. This was the place to down a $100 cocktail, book a $3,600 room or pregame for an insurrection.

But Joe Biden beat Donald Trump in 2020. The following year, the Trump Organization sold the rights to his once-prized MAGA monument. By 2022, Trump International Hotel DC became a Waldorf Astoria. The nation’s capital is a town that rewards winners. And on Tuesday, as a New York judge arraigned the 45th president of the United States on 34 felony counts of falsifying business records, the scene in what was once Trump’s expansive, sun-soaked hotel atrium, replete with its faux cherry blossom branches and four sunbeam-powered chandeliers, silently shrugged....