Lizzie Widdicombe Visits Mar-a-Lago
The Political Scene | The New Yorker
The New Yorker
4.3 • 3.9K Ratings
🗓️ 3 July 2017
⏱️ 29 minutes
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Summary
Mar-a-Lago was just another private club in Palm Beach, Florida, when Donald Trump bought the property and turned it into a gilded palace. Now, for a recently raised initiation fee of two hundred thousand dollars and annual dues of fourteen thousand dollars, members have a chance to rub elbows with the President, and watch him deal with global crises in the club’s dining room. The New Yorker’s Lizzie Widdicombe and the radio producer Steven Valentino travel to Palm Beach to speak with self-styled Democratic resisters by the pool and attend a benefit at Mar-a-Lago, where they sample Trump wine and wait for the President to show.
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| 0:50.4 | On today's Politics and More podcast, the New Yorker's Lizzie Whititticum travels to Palm Beach, Florida to visit Mar-a-Lago, President Trump's so-called Southern White House. |
| 1:04.3 | Palm Beach is on a long, skinny island, a barrier island, about 70 miles up the coast from Miami. |
| 1:11.8 | It's one of the wealthiest places in the country, a billionaire's paradise with crystal water, pristine sand, |
| 1:17.2 | and 70 degree temperatures right in the middle of January. And for much of this past winter and |
| 1:23.2 | spring, Palm Beach was the home of President Donald Trump. |
| 1:27.3 | Thank you. spring, Palm Beach was the home of President Donald Trump. |
| 1:38.3 | A unique aspect of this presidency among many unique aspects is the fact that the president owns a private club called Mar-a-Lago, and he lives there much of the time, and he conducts presidential business |
| 1:45.4 | while mingling with members and dinner guests. |
| 1:48.8 | And today, we're going in. |
| 1:51.4 | A couple of months ago, |
| 1:52.6 | the New Yorker's Lizzie Whittacom |
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