Members are quitting 'sad' Mar-a-Lago after Trump loses

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

New York (CNN Business)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." (continues....)

WOMP WOMP

[superpatriotman]

1. I don't care. Do you?

Screw 'em!

[pandr32]

2. So he runs Mar-a-Lago like he did the presidency

I wouldn't be surprised if an ugly, tall barricade wasn't erected all around the perimeter like he put at the White House.

[2naSalit]

11. One trick pony, it's all he's got.

[pandr32]

13. Absolutely

[LiberalArkie]

27. He would have to figure a way for the secret service to pay for it

[getagrip_already]

3. I love the mental imagery of trump walking into the dining room.....

and seeing absolutely nobody there. No weddings. No events. No guests. Just trump rattling around a prison of his own design yelling at clouds.

[mr_lebowski]

6. In a dirty robe and slippers, hollering at the non-existent staff to get this place

cleaned up cause Tiger's gonna be there soon ... but the golf course was long ago sold off and turned into condos.

[JDC]

24. Accompanied by the echo of his cheap shoes clicking on the floor

[DonaldsRump]

4. "they said the food is no good."

Bwahahahahaha!

[OhNo-Really]

5. And noisy airplanes flying overhead. McDonalds Buffets

Like those used to honor large groups at the White House. Lavish

[dalton99a]

7. "Everyone there is 100 years old"

Mar-a-Lago has long been ridiculed by critics as a stodgy, stuffy club filled with Trump memorabilia -- some of it fake. Late-night host Jimmy Kimmel on Friday recounted a visit to the resort just before Trump became president.

"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."

[TexasBushwhacker]

47. How strange n/t

[Yeehah]

8. Trump is a nobody now

No more need for rich assholes to curry his favor.

[ProfessorGAC]

9. Gee, That's Good For Revenues!

High debt service & reduced revenues are a great combination!
I can see people fleeing. Especially considering how overpriced that joint is.
No reason to be a rich member of that gilded dump now that the idiot is just a guy!

[bronxiteforever]

10. Caddyshack comes to mind

[ProudMNDemocrat]

12. Trump's Temple to himself going down the tubes?

Good. Doubling the membership fees at all his places was a dumb move. Let the membership flee. That includes Bedminster, Doral, and other places around the world.

Round 2 of the Impeachment Trial will cause more financial heart aches.

[Irish_Dem]

14. Trump will have to pay people to come to the club.

[PJMcK]

38. How much?

Seriously.

It would have to be a very high price for me to go to the West Palm Beach Trump Dump™. After all, I don't want to see, eat or talk with Trump. In photographs, the place looks garish and ghoulish. There are airplanes taking off and landing from the nearby busy airport and part of the property abuts the town garbage dump, (how appropriate). I don't even want to play his golf course and I'm a golf addict!

I think he'd have to pay me at least 6 figures. Then I'd post on Yelp! that the place is a shithole.

[Irish_Dem]

40. A lot.

[keithbvadu2]

33. He could double the fees because it was worth it to the members to have access to the President.

He could double the fees because it was worth it to the members to have access to the President.

That brand value is no more.

Now he can attract the cross burning crowd.

[PJMcK]

39. Not many in the cross-burning crowd could afford a membership

I think Trump upped the membership buy-in to $250,000 when he became president.

Cletus and his cousins don't have that kind of money.

[appleannie1]

15. That's the story of everyone of his properties.

[PJMcK]

41. Isn't it wonderful?

My favorite thing of the past few months, aside from President Biden's inauguration, was when the P.G.A. pulled their golf championship-- one of golf's "majors"-- from Trump's Bedminster club. That was a huge blow to his fragile ego and he was gut-punched by that decision.

Meanwhile, his club in Scotland has lost tens of millions of dollars every year he was president.

Isn't it delicious?

[appleannie1]

49. Yes. And next thing we will read is about the bedbug and roach invasion of his Florida property.

That was one of the main problems that had to be dealt with in Atlantic City. He was too cheap to pay for monthly treatments like most hotels and restaurants.

[Midnight Writer]

16. It will take a legal battle to move Trump out of this place, too.

[RussellCattle]

17. Wasn't there something about an agreement with West Palm Beach that precludes him from....

....living there after he turned it into resort? At least not for many days per year. And the helicopter pad has to go too.

[FakeNoose]

19. He cannot declare it his permanent "residence"

The city of West Palm Beach will only allow him to stay 3 weeks, then he has to leave. Otherwise it becomes his permanent residence, and that's not allowed in their zoning regs. No doubt there will be big fines and eviction notices soon.

[spooky3]

28. Or Deutsche will foreclose. Nt

[lunatica]

30. Since when has Trump honored an agreement?

Especially if it’s the law?

He’ll do the same thing he did as President. Claim squatters rights, which is upheld in Florida.

https://www.google.com/url?sa=t&rct=j&q=&esrc=s&source=web&cd=&ved=2ahUKEwjL4eL4rrXuAhUUZc0KHa8YBkEQFjABegQIDRAC&url=https%3A%2F%2Ffloridapropertyrealty.com%2Fsquatters-rights-florida%2F&usg=AOvVaw3TmOwa0wjH1Xsa-PSmVWMF

[keithbvadu2]

36. Then, as a residence, it should qualify no more for a liquor license.

Then, as a residence, it should qualify no more for a liquor license.

Imagine what that would do for a clubhouse.

[lunatica]

37. I didn't claim he's thought it through

Heaven knows, he never has before. That’s why he’s always relied heavily on fixers like his father and Michael Cohen. It’s also why he also relies on bullying everyone. He’s a human steamroller.

[Yo_Mama_Been_Loggin]

18. I question their judgement if they wanted anything to do with him in the first place.

Outside of knowing that he isn't the successful businessman he claims to be he gives off a rather creepy vibe.

[Grokenstein]

22. If "he lost" is the straw that broke their camels' backs

but they were perfectly okay with the prospect of four more years of Dim Don's hell-on-earth "reign," they're no better than Dim Don himself.

[Aviation Pro]

20. Shades of The Grand Budapest

But without the charm.

[KY_EnviroGuy]

21. I wonder how many joined just to gain proximity and influence to a president.

Plus, the guy really is toxic now and bad for business relations. What sensible businessman would want to invite an associate or customer to visit there?

I'm surprised he has not already tried to convert it into MAGA Party headquarters (complete with TV studios) or a MAGA amusement park.

The boy simply has to be running around ten scams all the time to be happy......

[tanyev]

26. I figured those were the only type of members that were left.

I seem to recall there was an exodus after the 2016 election, either due to Donny himself and/or the fact that he doubled the membership fees. Anybody that joined after that had to be looking for what they could get from a corrupt POTUS. No reason to stick around any longer.

[KY_EnviroGuy]

48. Not much fun being in a private club with federal agents watching your every move.

And, the S.S. will be there yet for quite a while unless he flees the country or gets locked up.

KY

[not fooled]

29. Here's a rescue plan!

Not just MAGA party headquarters--let maggots join, for 0.01% of the current membership fee! Once millions join, red don is rolling in the dough!!!1!

[KY_EnviroGuy]

46. That's a good idea and then Palm Beach would really have reason to run him off.

Knowing his history, he could figure out a way to swindle money out of an abandoned graveyard......

[Ford_Prefect]

23. Have the Russian members left, too?

[Diraven]

25. There's no reason to bribe Trump anymore

By paying for the memberships that doubled in price when he was president.

[George II]

31. Thoughts and prayers.

[mainer]

32. Someone I know who went to MAL said it was just old folks

He described it as like a nursing home dining room. Not a place where anyone would want to hang out.

[IronLionZion]

34. They probably don't want to catch COVID from him either

considering how he likes to spread it around.

[question everything]

35. Didn't they raise membership fees to $100K, or something after he took office?

[Totally Tunsie]

42. The fees actually doubled from $100K to $200K.

Greed personified.

[question everything]

44. Will they now reduce it back?

[Takket]

43. more like he can't do anything for him anymore.

they are going to have to find someone else to bribe to cover up their crimes.

[Hekate]

45. To quote the Mad King himself: "Loser! SAD!"

May he end up like King Lear, on the blasted heath of his blasted golf course.