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catbyte

(34,403 posts)
Tue Dec 15, 2020, 12:34 PM Dec 2020

Where Will Donald Trump Go After He Leaves Office?

Rumor has the soon-to-be-former First Family relocating to Palm Beach—but how do residents of the exclusive enclave feel about that?


BY MARSHALL HEYMAN
DEC 9, 2020

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“Palm Beach is very divided,” says another local, perhaps a bit more coyly. On the one hand, Trump would bring visibility to the town as a tourist attraction, helping it in difficult economic times. On the other, many of the area’s residents would be just as happy without the hoi polloi milling about—and they say Trump was never really one of them anyway.

“Trump was here frequently before his presidency and never left his own clubs, so there isn’t really a reason to think post-presidency would be any different,” says an in-the-know resident. (Many people interviewed for this article did not want to be quoted on the record.) She adds that the Trump family “always chose to be very secluded within Mar-a-Lago.”

Another adds that although Trump may bring attention to Palm Beach, “he has never patronized any shops or restaurants, either before or during his presidency. I highly doubt that will change.” A third local observer notes, “Honestly, in all the years that he’s lived here, whether part-time or permanently, he has never attempted to become a contributing member of the community.”

Instead he’s often holed up inside Mar-a-Lago, his private club, which has 500 high-net-worth members who don’t scoff at the $200,000 initiation fee and $14,000 or so in annual dues. Trump enjoys being in the “Mar-a-Lago cocoon,” according to the New York Times, “where the president is in his most comfortable mode…playing the jocular host in front of an adoring crowd.”

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https://www.townandcountrymag.com/society/money-and-power/a34785075/donald-trump-palm-beach-mar-a-lago-post-presidency/
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Where Will Donald Trump Go After He Leaves Office? (Original Post) catbyte Dec 2020 OP
Palm Beach can look forward to having groups of MAGAts milling around outside Mar a Quid Pro Quo... Thomas Hurt Dec 2020 #1
Hopefully, prison. ooky Dec 2020 #2
Sing Sing FTW. na okaawhatever Dec 2020 #3
I hope he goes Cirque du So-What Dec 2020 #4
I'd personally be OK with building a wall around Mar-A-Shithole and keeping him there. Initech Dec 2020 #5
Hell? The Velveteen Ocelot Dec 2020 #6
. dalton99a Dec 2020 #7
That I like. nolabear Dec 2020 #21
Rikers Island. AZ8theist Dec 2020 #8
Initially, house arrest... 2naSalit Dec 2020 #9
to a place where the sun don't shine DBoon Dec 2020 #10
Hopefully somewhere without phone/internet connections... Wounded Bear Dec 2020 #11
Rostov-on-Don, Russia. Tommy_Carcetti Dec 2020 #12
Dubai meadowlander Dec 2020 #13
Hell. greatauntoftriplets Dec 2020 #14
His longtime executive Barbara Res says outside the US. Cicada Dec 2020 #15
Attica. moondust Dec 2020 #16
Straight to Hell would be my preference lettucebe Dec 2020 #17
Dunno. But I'd guess he'll travel there in a handbasket struggle4progress Dec 2020 #18
"...trump was never really one of them..." Paladin Dec 2020 #19
I honestly don't care where he goes as long as I don't leftyladyfrommo Dec 2020 #20

Thomas Hurt

(13,903 posts)
1. Palm Beach can look forward to having groups of MAGAts milling around outside Mar a Quid Pro Quo...
Tue Dec 15, 2020, 12:37 PM
Dec 2020

like groupies outside Graceland.

Initech

(100,081 posts)
5. I'd personally be OK with building a wall around Mar-A-Shithole and keeping him there.
Tue Dec 15, 2020, 12:40 PM
Dec 2020

Hey Trump can finally get that wall he wants! And I think that Mexico actually might be willing to pay for this one!

Paladin

(28,265 posts)
19. "...trump was never really one of them..."
Tue Dec 15, 2020, 02:51 PM
Dec 2020

Sounds like Palm Beach and New York City have the same opinion of the First Loser. He ought to check into Mar-a-Lago and not ever come out.

leftyladyfrommo

(18,868 posts)
20. I honestly don't care where he goes as long as I don't
Tue Dec 15, 2020, 02:54 PM
Dec 2020

have to see his face ever again. Or the grifter kid's
Faces.

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