Donald Trump: investigation of his private paradise in Palm Beach
Donald Trump was spending his last hours drafting a list of hundreds of amnesties. He only had to think about his retirement. Golden, like her favorite color and of course in Palm Beach, her "second homeland".
Perhaps the most unpopular late-term president in US history ... But when he returns home to Florida, he still has fans welcoming him as the Messiah. Donald Trump announced it. By the time Biden takes the oath, he said, he would have left Washington. Welcome to Palm Beach, a peninsula of 10,000 inhabitants (30,000 in winter) with the highest concentration of billionaires in the United States!
It was at the end of 2019 that Trump decided to make it his "second home", as if he was already bored in the White House. He was then at the height of his power. Today, the "Sun King" has lost much of its luster. Exhausted, dejected, discredited… certainly. Sunk? Surely not. In fact, the voters of Florida have just said thank you, granting him a fine victory over Joe Biden. "This is the second-chance state, a quintessential Trumpian land, that attracts every nutcase in the universe," said Rick Wilson, a locally-influenced Republican strategist who hates Trump. Translation: in Florida, taxes are very low, compliance with the law is uncertain, the wearing of a mask very relative ... everything Trump loves.
Its haven of peace is a fairy-tale palace of 126 rooms, set over 8 hectares between the ocean and the lagoon. In the large Moorish living room where Trump received so many dignitaries, a 1927 Steinway & Sons grand piano, white and gold, and a huge French tapestry. Usually, on Wednesdays, in the Italian-paneled dining room, fish are served; but, for the first “post-presidential” meal, the day of the handover that Trump refused to attend, the menu was kept top secret. "We haven't planned anything special," one waiter dodged.
