Members quitting Mar-A-Lago because of Trump

[NewYorkExpress]

https://www.cnn.com/2021/01/24/business/mar-a-lago-donald-trump-guests/index.html

Many once-loyal members of Mar-a-Lago are leaving because they no longer want to have any connection to former President Donald Trump, according to the author of the definitive book about the resort.

"It's a very dispirited place," Laurence Leamer, historian and author of "Mar-a-Lago: Inside the Gates of Power at Donald Trump's Presidential Palace," told MSNBC host Alex Witt on "Weekends with Alex Witt" Saturday. He said members are "not concerned about politics and they said the food is no good."

Leamer said he spoke to a number of former members who "silently walked out" after Trump left office.

Trump moved to the Palm Beach, Florida, estate after his term ended last week. But without the cachet of the sitting president of the United States working at the estate, guests are finding Mar-a-Lago lost a step. There isn't any entertainment on the property during the pandemic, and Leamer added, "It's a sad place ... it's not what it was."

[Indy Texas 🇺🇦🇵🇸]

"You could not possibly exaggerate how comical it is," Kimmel said on The Ringer's "The Bill Simmons Podcast." "Everyone there is 100 years old."

Kimmel told Simmons he went to the resort about six years ago to have dinner with Howard Stern, who lived near the property at the time. He described the Mar-a-Lago attendees as "hunched-over people who are eating soft food" and he said the place is covered in Trump photos.

"It was just quiet and a terrible place," Kimmel said. "And now he lives in this terrible place."

To be fair, what do you expect from a country club in South Florida?

[GeorgiaModerate]

Sad!

[Catholics vs. Convicts]

Lol. GOOD.

Anyone else think it’s embarrassing that he has to live at a place he couldn’t afford to live at alone so he turned it into a club? What billionaire wants to share his home with outsiders?

[Santander]

Lol. GOOD.

Anyone else think it’s embarrassing that he has to live at a place he couldn’t afford to live at alone so he turned it into a club? What billionaire wants to share his home with outsiders?

Trump is the stingiest billionaire alive. And there are tons of stingy billionaires out there.

[Indy Texas 🇺🇦🇵🇸]

Lol. GOOD.

Anyone else think it’s embarrassing that he has to live at a place he couldn’t afford to live at alone so he turned it into a club? What billionaire wants to share his home with outsiders?

When he bought it, he initially used it as a personal residence.

In the early '90s, when he was going through his bankruptcy, he needed a way to make money so he turned it into a club.

[Francisco]

I mean we're in a pandemic and it's a country club full of boomers, I wouldn't expect anything fun from a place like this

[DINGO Joe]

Lol. GOOD.

Anyone else think it’s embarrassing that he has to live at a place he couldn’t afford to live at alone so he turned it into a club? What billionaire wants to share his home with outsiders?

Trump is the stingiest billionaire alive. And there are tons of stingy billionaires out there.

I'd like to see that balance sheet before you go calling Trump a "billionaire"

[ProudModerate2]

I hope his entire business empire collapses.
Riches to Rags.

[Grumpier Than Uncle Joe]

I'm sure there is a waiting list to join.  All will be well.

[Joe Republic]

Lol. GOOD.

Anyone else think it’s embarrassing that he has to live at a place he couldn’t afford to live at alone so he turned it into a club? What billionaire wants to share his home with outsiders?

All of his residences are apartments located inside his businesses.  It’s another tax grift strategy.