Trump expected to huddle with top GOP donors in Palm Beach

[highplainsdem]

Last edited Thu Feb 23, 2017, 05:30 PM - Edit history (1)

Source: Politico

President Donald Trump is expected to head to Florida next weekend to address the Republican Party's top donors, according to several people familiar with the plans.

The party's biggest donors are gathering in Palm Beach for a retreat organized by the Republican National Committee, and the president has been announced as the featured speaker, according to people with knowledge of the plans. A number of senior administration officials will also attend the retreat, the people familiar with the planning said, a key draw for the donors.

The speech will be one of Trump's first moves as president to build the party, which had a sometimes uneasy relationship with him during his candidacy but mostly has coalesced around him as president. Many of the partys wealthiest donors shunned Trump during his campaign for the GOP presidential nomination.

And Trump railed against the role of large donors in the political process, saying they buy influence with politicians. "When you give, they do whatever the hell you want them to do," he said, explaining why he frequently gave to Democratic politicians before running for president.

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Read more: http://www.politico.com/story/2017/02/trump-top-republican-donors-meet-palm-beach-235312

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Politico asked the WH and RNC to comment on the report, hasn't received any response yet.

Another weekend, another few million dollars of taxpayer money wasted so Cheeto Jesus can enjoy golf and pay-to-play politics in Florida.


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Editing to add a clarification, after posting some replies below.

Apparently Politico meant the first weekend in March when they wrote "next weekend." This coming weekend, according to a Palm Beach Post article, Trump is expected to stay in DC and prepare to address a joint session of Congress on the 28th.

[get the red out]

1. He's staying at the WH this weekend?

Man, what a sacrifice!

[highplainsdem]

3. Possibly. Maybe he'll go to NYC? The FAA advisory on Palm Beach flight restrictions is for Mar. 3-5

http://www.palmbeachpost.com/news/local/president-trump-plans-return-palm-beach-but-not-this-weekend/d7Si1WBTs03qCBKmhStOjJ/

[get the red out]

4. Well, I feel for people in NYC then

I am glad I don't live in a place that the gilded moron would find attractive.

[highplainsdem]

6. I should've read that Palm Beach Post article more closely. Says he will stay in DC this weekend,

since he's preparing to address Congress on the 28th.

So NYC will be spared, and the taxpayers will be spared the cost of his trips to Florida until the first weekend in March.

That Post article also mentions a charity gala at Mar-a-Lago on the 4th, the sort of event Trump likes to drop in on.

[Bengus81]

9. Yeah...and I don't belive it. Bet he goes to NYC......nt

[Sancho]

2. Again?!!??! Damn I wish he'd stay out of Florida.

[Canoe52]

5. President Donald Trump is expected to head to Florida next weekend...

Over a few rounds of golf I presume?

[ancianita]

7. DT's "uneasy" relations and shunning by the party's wealthiest donors has to be by the Koch network.

Jane Mayer's Dark Money lays out how acrimonious the Trump/Koch relations have been.

[hibbing]

8. Tax cuts, tax cuts, tax cuts for the ruling class

[Beacool]

10. Enough with the trips to Palm Beach!!!!

Palm Beach is small, his weekly trips are disrupting the whole area, including the air space. PBI is only 15 minutes away and this jackazz is disrupting flight plans.

Besides, why should taxpayers be paying for protection for Trump to visit his club? Mar-a-Lago is not a private residence. When he goes there he's promoting his business. The Defense Dept. and the Secret Service are paying Trump rent at Trump Tower in NY, since they have to be there to protect the trophy wife and his kid. This is the only president to be making money while still in office.