Thursday, February 04, 2021
No more presidential privilege
Trump loses his helicopter landing pad
First, ex-President Donald Trump loses his office and his Twitter account and now he has to give up his helipad on his luxurious golf resort Mar-a-Lago in Florida – much to the delight of his new neighbors.
After the end of his term of office, ex-President Donald Trump has to forego more and more advantages. As the American gossip portal TMZ reports, Trump loses his helipad on his Mar-a-Lago estate in Florida. This privilege was an exception exclusive to the US President.
In principle, helicopter landings are not allowed in Palm Beach. Now that the presidential helicopter Marine One will no longer land at the resort where Trump moved after he moved out of the White House, the landing pad has to go too. According to information from the portal, relevant construction work has already started.
Trump had already changed his official address from Trump Tower in New York to the Mar-a-Lago property in 2019 and spent a large number of nights there in the past year alone. However, it has not yet been clarified whether he is even allowed to live there permanently. The entrepreneur converted the property into a private club in 1993 to make it more profitable for himself. In return, the City of Palm Beach asked him to sign an agreement stating that no club member could spend more than seven nights in a row in the villa. He was given 21 days in the agreement. His new neighbors were anything but enthusiastic about the move, after all, during Trump's stay there were closings of roads and traffic jams due to security measures. His helicopter trips also caused a stir.
Fewer and fewer members in the private club
In addition, it was recently announced that the club was losing more and more members. Some of them had "left without a sound," said author Laurence Leamer to the US broadcaster MSNBC. "It's a very bleak place," says Leamer, who has written a book about Mar-a-Lago. It is no longer what it used to be. When Trump was president, people would have paid up to $ 200,000 to become a member, Leamer said. However, he doesn't think they would continue to pay that price.
In addition to the unfavorable developments around his private club, Trump is currently facing a much greater challenge, because the impeachment proceedings against him are due to start in the second week of February.
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