Most charities that deserted Trump's Florida club after Charlottesville haven't come back

[Eugene]

Source: Washington Post

Most charities that deserted Trump’s Florida club after Charlottesville haven’t come back

By David A. Fahrenthold November 20 at 6:00 AM

Last year, 22 charities deserted President Trump’s Mar-a-Lago Club in Palm Beach, Fla. — canceling high-dollar events after Trump said there were “very fine people” among violent white-nationalist protesters in Charlottesville.

This year, only two are coming back.

A survey by The Washington Post could only find six groups planning big-money evening banquets this winter at the club, where Trump is scheduled to arrive Tuesday for Thanksgiving. Several are new clients, aligned with Trump’s politics, including a group of young conservatives and a gathering of superfans called Trumpettes USA.

Before Charlottesville, the number of high-dollar events at Trump’s club was as much as 22 in a single season of galas.

Trump seems to have self-disrupted the banquet business at Mar-a-Lago, a part of his company that once seemed undisruptable. After all, he owned one of two major party venues on a small island whose super-rich residents love to party and hate to leave. How could that go wrong?

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[badhair77]

1. Glad to hear that since I had previously read some were returning.

But the family will make up for those financial loses with all the other cash they’re pulling in, like the Washington hotel and Ivanka’s trademarks in China.