Many presidents have had winter retreats, a number of them in Florida...just like Trump!

[basquebromance]

Nixon flew down to his waterfront home in Key Biscayne. John F. Kennedy took over the family estate in the north end of Palm Beach as his winter White House. Harry S. Truman turned a house in Key West into his Little White House.

But these were private residences, and Mar-a-Lago is a club where people flow in and out by the hundreds.

It’s hard to imagine any of these other presidents wanting to be inundated at their Florida retreats with all kinds of people whose only commonality is that they have paid the money to be there.

But Mar-a-Lago energized Trump, with its wealthy members who pay two hundred thousand dollars for the privilege to dine at the club’s upscale restaurant, lounge by its pools and beach during the day, and, if they cough up a couple of hundred thousand more dollars for a second membership, play a round of golf at the nearby Trump International Golf Club

 

[Moonglow]

He had an agreement with the city that he would not live there full-time.

 

[Mushroom]

Is this history, or a planned episode of "Lifestyles of the Rich and Famous?"

What does this have to do with history?