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I feel like he needs a helipad over at Mar-a-Lago and some security near it so he can just land there on Marine One.
Not sure where he'd have to pick it up to fly in, but it seems more logical than this motorcade, businesses blocked off, and extra police presence every weekend.
Is that resort even large enough for this? I mean, I don't know how many golf courses it has, but we all have to make sacrifices.
But he needs to be seen! That's the whole idea. He doesn't give a rat's A$$ about anybody else.
I feel like he needs a helipad over at Mar-a-Lago and some security near it so he can just land there on Marine One.
Not sure where he'd have to pick it up to fly in, but it seems more logical than this motorcade, businesses blocked off, and extra police presence every weekend.
Is that resort even large enough for this? I mean, I don't know how many golf courses it has, but we all have to make sacrifices.
The last time I was in Palm Beach was in 2012. A good friend of my grandfather owned a residence known as 'Four Winds' at one time, and while I was there I wanted to see if I could find it...I couldn't. No wonder (I couldn't find the information on the web in 2012, but I just did). Stephen Schwarzman (a friend of both Trump and Hillary) bought 'Four Winds' in 2003 and tore it down. When I read your post above, I thought 'I don't think Mar-a-Lago has a real golf course' (it doesn't....it has a little chip and putt course). The closest 'real' course to Mar-a-Lago is the Everglades Golf Club (about 2 miles away). If Trump decided to play at Everglades, I could see that causing a stir re shopping because the shopping on Worth Avenue is only a block or so north of Everglades. The other two closest private courses in Palm Beach....Breakers Ocean Course, and Palm Beach Country Club....are about 3 miles and 5 miles from Mar-a-Lago.
While looking for what I found re 'Four Winds', I did find some information re 'Four Winds' that sort of relates to Mar-a-Lago. Marjorie Merriweather Post built Mar-a-Lago while she was married to E.F. Hutton...which is common knowledge. After they divorced, E.F. Hutton owned 'Four Winds'. 'Four Winds' had at least two owners after that (one of them my grandfather's friend) before Schwarzman bought it in 2003. I also stumbled upon an article about JFK prohibiting reporters from taking pictures of him playing golf between the time of his nomination (1960) and the inauguration (1961). The article also mentions that JFK criticized Eisenhower for playing too much golf while POTUS...LOL:
This is one thing that I am not happy with at all. The weekend trips to Florida on the taxpayer's money has to stop. I didn't realize the impact on local businesses. I agree something has to be done about this. It is absolutely ridiculous.
The Government Accountability Office has requested an investigation into the costs associated with these Mar-a-Lago trips and all the security involved. They agree there is excessive expense and want to rein him in. They also want proof that Trump has done what he's promised when he said he would donate all the money his hotels are making from foreign governments to the U.S. Treasury to avoid any appearance of a conflict of interest.
They can commiserate with the people in NYC and CA that suffered the same issues all the time from Obama's constant fundraising visits.
I'm no Obama fan, but this is completely different.
I feel bad for the people having to endure this nonsense.
Can someone please schedule some extended maintenance on the big blue birds to save those people in Florida as well as my wallet.
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