Twitter reacts to Trump dubbing Mar-a-Lago "The Southern White House"

[highplainsdem]

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Will be having many meetings this weekend at The Southern White House. Big 5:00 P.M. speech in Melbourne, Florida. A lot to talk about!

Just did a search for southern white house on Twitter:


https://twitter.com/search?q=southern%20white%20house&src=typd

Among the many responses, most of them negative:

MSNBC's Kyle Griffin posts a screen shot showing what comes up when you google "the Southern White House." And it's all about the Confederacy:

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And lots more reactions, most pointing out that Mar-a-Lago is Trump's private club that he profits from. Including this succinct comment:

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Trump calling Mar-a-Lago the "Southern White House". More like the Southern piggy bank.

Btw, from The Wikipedia article on Mar-a-Lago, its history of being a federal goverrnment property for a while, and derails about how Trump's purchase of it was based on a lie and a bluff to scare the Post family into selling the property to him:

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Mar-a-Lago

Marjorie Merriweather Post built the house with her then-husband Edward F. Hutton. Post hired Marion Sims Wyeth to design it, and Joseph Urban to create interior design and exterior decorations. Upon her death in 1973, Post willed the 17-acre (69,000 m2) estate to the United States government as a Winter White House for presidents and visiting foreign dignitaries. Richard Nixon preferred the Florida White House in Key Biscayne, however, and Jimmy Carter was not interested. Not wanting to pay $1 million in annual taxes and maintenance costs, the government returned it to the Post Foundation in 1981, which listed it for sale for $20 million. Dina Merrill and Post's two other daughters did not maintain the property, expecting to sell it, but there was so little interest that the city approved its demolition to build smaller homes. Mar-a-Lago was declared a National Historic Landmark in 1980.

After unsuccessfully trying to purchase and combine two apartments in Palm Beach for his family, Donald Trump learned about the estate and offered $15 million. After the Post family rejected the offer, Trump claimed he had purchased (he didn't purchase it until after he bought Mar-a-Lago) the land between Mar-a-Lago and the ocean and threatened to build a building that would block Mar-a-Lago's beach view, which caused the Post family to accept his last offer of less than $8 million in December 1985.

[tanyev]

1. If that's the Southern White House, then it needs to be set up with all the same security protocols

as the real White House. But I suspect that would have a chilling effect on the club's revenues.

[Ms. Toad]

2. AS to the slimy bluff -

Bad, yes. But I don't feel too sorry for anyone wealthy enough to have a $20 million mansion as part of their estate who doesn't know how to check property records to confirm whether a potential buyer was telling the truth before cutting the price by $12 million.