Trump to ditch Washington restraints as 2018 closes

[DonViejo]

The president is expected to pencil in lengthy holiday visits to Mar-a-Lago, where aides acknowledge privately that Trump is often more impulsive.

By ANDREW RESTUCCIA 11/08/2018 02:15 PM EST

President Donald Trump will spend much of the next two months outside of Washington, untethered from the strictures of daily White House life as he weighs a shakeup of his administration and faces new developments in the Russia investigation after Tuesday’s election.

Trump delights in decamping to his properties, especially Mar-a-Lago, his private Florida club, where he is expected to spend the upcoming holidays. The trips give him more time to bounce ideas off outside allies and friends without the regimentation of even his loose daily White House schedule, which he increasingly bristles against. But White House aides and outside advisers acknowledge privately that Trump is often more impulsive when he’s on the road and out of sight of senior staffers.

“He’s more free and liberated there. He’s able to do more things according to his style, on his own timetable — more like he did in the private sector,” a former White House official said. “He doesn’t have the same guardrails.”

Between now and January, Trump will spend little time at the White House, according to aides. In addition to traveling to Paris later this week and to Argentina at the end of the month for the G-20 summit, Trump is expected to pencil in lengthy holiday visits to Mar-a-Lago. His schedule is still being ironed out, and the exact dates of his Mar-a-Lago visits are unclear, aides said.

[W_HAMILTON]

1. And he gets to bilk taxpayers to boost his property's revenues.

[Demovictory9]

6. yes

[The Genealogist]

2. I think he is pretty untethered already, from reality.

Wonder how much his me-time is going to cost us before the end of the year.

[redstatebluegirl]

3. Got to increase his income from those properties with us paying the freight.

[MrsCoffee]

4. Enjoy that freedom and liberation while you can fucker.

You will die in jail.

[Corgigal]

5. It's going to be ours soon.

DU party at Mar a Lago, tax free cause it's ours..woop, woop.

[Doreen]

7. "Bounce ideas off of allies?. He has allies.

True Americans have no allies anymore.

[sdfernando]

8. Perhaps the incoming DEMOCRATIC House can defund the Whitehouse budget?...wouldn't THAT be fun! /NT

[llmart]

9. More impulsive???

Could you be any more impulsive than he already is? That jackass has the impulse control of a two-year old.