Trump family's lavish lifestyle could cost taxpayers hundreds of millions over 4 years

[Merle 458]

1 hour ago, Ebunoluwa said:

 

 

But it's ok for Trump to spend 3 times as much ? Are you kidding me ? Please take the partisan blinders off, you will stumble.

So you are saying Trump has spent 3x as much as Obama on vacations? It's all left wing speculations at this point. I think you might be the one wearing the blinders. 

[Jacque67 7,328]

https://www.bloomberg.com/news/articles/2017-02-18/trump-s-sons-eric-and-donald-jr-in-dubai-to-open-golf-club

 

so tax payers have to pay for SS protection for these two goons!!! Sad!

 

 

and Big Bear is now calling Mar-a-Lago the "Southern White House".

 

happy days!!!!

[The Nature Boy 7,659]

MDl raised cain about Bush's Vacations, MDR raised cain about Oboma's  vacations , MDL now raising cain about  the fact Trump may potentially spend more than Barry. 

 

Its all silly 

[eieio 1,594]

1 hour ago, Jacque67 said:

https://www.bloomberg.com/news/articles/2017-02-18/trump-s-sons-eric-and-donald-jr-in-dubai-to-open-golf-club

 

so tax payers have to pay for SS protection for these two goons!!! Sad!

 

 

and Big Bear is now calling Mar-a-Lago the "Southern White House".

 

happy days!!!!

From Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia

 

 

This article is about the house and resort. For Swiss village, see Miralago.

Mar-a-Lago National Historic Landmark
U.S. National Register of Historic Places
U.S. National Historic Landmark
Mar-a-Lago, Marjorie Merriweather Post's estate on Palm Beach Island
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Location	1100 S. Ocean Blvd., Palm Beach, Florida, United States
Coordinates	26°40′37.439″N80°02′13.157″WCoordinates: 26°40′37.439″N 80°02′13.157″W
Area	110,000 sq ft (10,000 m2)[1]
Built	1924–27
Architect	Marion Sims Wyeth(exterior) Joseph Urban (interior)
NRHP Reference #	80000961
Significant dates
Added to NRHP	December 23, 1980[2]
Designated NHL	December 23, 1980[3]

Mar-a-Lago (English pronunciation: /mɑɹ.ə.lɑ.goʊ/) is an estate and National Historic Landmark in Palm Beach, Florida, built from 1924 to 1927 by heiress and socialite Marjorie Merriweather Post. Post envisioned the house as a future winter retreat for American presidents and foreign dignitaries, and following her death in 1973 it was bequeathed to the nation. However, successive presidents declined to use the mansion, which was returned to Post's estate in 1980 and in 1985 was purchased by Donald Trump, later 45th President of the United States.^[4]

The 126-room, 110,000-square-foot (10,000 m²)^[5] house contains the Mar-a-Lago Club, a members-only club with guest rooms, a spa, and other hotel-style amenities. The Trump family maintains private quarters in a separate, closed-off area of the house and grounds.^[6]

Mar-a-Lago is currently being used as the Southern (Winter) White House by President Donald Trump.^[7][8]

 

Contents

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• 1Etymology
• 2History
• 3The "Winter White House"
• 4The Mar-a-lago Club
• 5Lawsuits
  • 5.1Flag litigation
  • 5.2Discrimination
  • 5.3Aviation litigation
• 6References
• 7Further reading
• 8External links

 

Etymology[edit]

The company identifies the name Mar-a-Lago as Spanish for "Sea-to-Lake."^[9]

History[edit]

 

Living room of Mar-a-Lago, 1967

 

Entrance to Mar-a-Lago owner's suite, April 1967

 

Entrance gate in 2014

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.^[10][11] Upon her death in 1973, Post willed the 17-acre (69,000 m²) estate to the United States government as a Winter White Housefor presidents and visiting foreign dignitaries.^[12] 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,^[13] but there was so little interest that the city approved its demolition to build smaller homes.^[14] Mar-a-Lago was declared a National Historic Landmark in 1980.^[3][15][16]

 

Donald Trump at a fundraiser for the Cleveland Clinic hosted at Mar-a-Lago in 2012

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.^[17][13] Trump renovated the estate, adding a 20,000-square-foot (1,900 m²) ballroom^[14] to the 58 bedrooms, 33 bathrooms, a 29-foot-long (8.8 m) pietra dura marble top dining table, 12 fireplaces, and three bomb shelters. The club also has five clay tennis courts and a waterfront pool.

In the early 1990s, Trump faced financial difficulties. While negotiating with his bankers, he promised to divide Mar-a-Lago into smaller properties, alarming Palm Beach residents; the city council rejected his plan to do so. Trump instead turned the estate into a private club that—unlike other Palm Beach old money resorts like the Bath and Tennis Club and Everglades Club—accepted Jews, blacks, and (as one Everglades member said) "people who try to call attention to themselves" like Trump himself—as members. The new club hosted concerts by Céline Dion and Billy Joel, had beauty-pageant contestants as guests, and violated local noise ordinances. Michael Jackson and Lisa Marie Presley spent their honeymoon at Mar-a-Lago, and Sean Combs and Jennifer Lopez reportedly had public sex in front of the windows at the Bath and Tennis Club.^[14][13][18]

On April 18, 2012, the American Institute of Architects' Florida Chapter ranked Mar-a-Lago fifth on its list of Florida Architecture: 100 Years. 100 Places.^[19]

Mar-a-Lago has frequently hosted the International Red Cross Ball, an annual "white tie, tails, and tiara" ball. Founded by Post, it has a history of attracting wealthy socialites and ambassadors from across the world in support of the mission of the American Red Cross. In 2016, Trump was elected President, thereby realizing Post's vision of the house as a presidential retreat, nearly four decades after the government had rebuffed her bequest.^[20]

On 18 January 2017, Trump officially named Mar-a-Lago his Winter White House.^[21]

The "Winter White House"[edit]

President Trump has referred to Mar-a-Lago as "the Winter White House"; member initiation fees doubled to $200,000 since he assumed office. ^[22] The first visit of President Trump at the Winter White House took place on the weekend of February 3–5, 2017, with a departure on February 6. On Saturday, he hosted the Diamond Red Cross Ball at Mar-a-Lago Club,^[23] while on Sunday, he watched the Super Bowl game at Trump International Golf Club. The estimated cost (over US$3 million) of the weekend garnered some scrutiny as candidate Trump regularly criticized president Obama for expensive taxpayer-funded vacations.^[24]

On the weekend of February 10-12, 2017, President Trump and his wife hosted Japanese Prime Minister Shinzo Abe and his wife. This was the first use of his resort to entertain an international leader,^[25] and the occasion for one of his first international security crises, that of a North Korean missile launch. Trump and Abe conferred in full view of the other diners. ^[26]

The Mar-a-lago Club[edit]

The primary business occupying the estate is the Mar-a-Lago Club, which operates as resort and hotel for dues-paying members, and rents out estate venues for private events. Membership at the Mar-a-Lago Club required a $200,000 initiation fee up until 2012 when it was lowered to $100,000. Sources close to the resort indicated the cut was in response to reduced demand following the Bernie Madoff scandal which affected many affluent Palm Beach residents.^[27] The fee was returned to $200,000 in January 2017 following the election of Donald Trump as president ^[27] with $14,000 annual dues.^[28] Overnight guests pay up to $2,000 a night.^[14] According to financial disclosure forms filed by Donald Trump, the Mar-a-Lago Club realized $29.7 million in gross revenues in the period June 2015 to May 2016.^[29

[Ebunoluwa 6,136]

40 minutes ago, Nature Boy Flair said:

MDl raised cain about Bush's Vacations, MDR raised cain about Oboma's  vacations , MDL now raising cain about  the fact Trump may potentially spend more than Barry. 

 

Its all silly 

Well cases of wine were mentioned about Obama and fancy wardrobe lol. I know Trump doesn't drink but perhaps Melania drinks enough

for both of them putting up with him, I am just saying  it was really silly to bring up cases of wine and wardrobe.

[spookyturtle 9,466]

2 hours ago, Nature Boy Flair said:

MDl raised cain about Bush's Vacations, MDR raised cain about Oboma's  vacations , MDL now raising cain about  the fact Trump may potentially spend more than Barry. 

 

Its all silly 

If it is silly why did you complain about Obama doing it? 

[The Nature Boy 7,659]

16 minutes ago, spookyturtle said:

If it is silly why did you complain about Obama doing it? 

prove it 

[The Nature Boy 7,659]

2 hours ago, Ebunoluwa said:

Well cases of wine were mentioned about Obama and fancy wardrobe lol. I know Trump doesn't drink but perhaps Melania drinks enough

for both of them putting up with him, I am just saying  it was really silly to bring up cases of wine and wardrobe.

and it was silly to bash Trump for the same thing 

[spookyturtle 9,466]

9 minutes ago, Nature Boy Flair said:

prove it 

You're flip flopping. Second time in this thread. 

[The Nature Boy 7,659]

18 minutes ago, spookyturtle said:

You're flip flopping. Second time in this thread. 

Not at all. You said I bashed Obama on the Vacation issue. Show me where I did it. Waiting 

[spookyturtle 9,466]

2 minutes ago, Nature Boy Flair said:

Not at all. You said I bashed Obama on the Vacation issue. Show me where I did it. Waiting 

You bashed Obama on everything he said or did. You never posted one positive thing about him. I'm the only middle of the road person here. 

[Transborderwife 4,666]

7 minutes ago, Nature Boy Flair said:

Not at all. You said I bashed Obama on the Vacation issue. Show me where I did it. Waiting 

I believe you've bashed his golf habit, not vacay per se

[The Nature Boy 7,659]

14 minutes ago, spookyturtle said:

You bashed Obama on everything he said or did. You never posted one positive thing about him. I'm the only middle of the road person here. 

I gave Obama +1 s on several occasions. One is when he got Bin Laden , I never jumped on the vacation band wagon. Yall just keep inventing the truth. Maybe a future with CNN perhaps 

 

You are not about to come back after a long absence and root in on my middle of the road Shtick 

[The Nature Boy 7,659]

13 minutes ago, Transborderwife said:

I believe you've bashed his golf habit, not vacay per se

You believe or you know ? Big difference

 

I believe I am a middle of the road person 

[Transborderwife 4,666]

11 minutes ago, Nature Boy Flair said:

You believe or you know ? Big difference

 

I believe I am a middle of the road person 

I may have done a search lol