Donald Trump's trip to The Villages is back on for Thursday

[TexasTowelie]

To the golf carts!

Despite (or perhaps because of) impeachment proceedings launching in Washington D.C., President Donald Trump is taking his show on the road next week.

Thursday finds the President in the Villages, where he will sign an Executive Order vowing to protect Medicare, a program important to residents.

Trump’s visit was originally scheduled for August but was postponed after the mass shootings in El Paso, Texas and Dayton, Ohio.

Sumter County GOP chair John Temple told the Orlando Sentinel that the event will be held at 1:30 p.m. at the Sharon L. Morse Performing Arts Center, the same venue as the planned August trip. That event was to be invitation-only, Temple said, and those with invitations from August will be notified about attending Thursday’s event.

Read more: https://floridapolitics.com/archives/306853-impeachment-trump-rally-villages

[katmondoo]

1. Too close to me. Republican retiree center. I would not go near there.

[radical noodle]

7. There was a very active Hillary group

in The Villages in 2016. The developers are republicans, the newspaper is strongly biased toward the right and the majority of the residents are republican.

[Girard442]

2. Protect Medicare? You can fool all of the people some of the time...

...and some of the people all of the time -- and then there's a group that will swallow any damn thing you shovel at them.

[dem4decades]

3. I've read stories about that place, Stepford place for seniors.

As an old guy myself it sounds like hell with Fox News playing continuously.

[Zorro]

4. Here's one of those stories

Romance and STD’s: Inside Florida’s wild retirees getaway

It’s 11 p.m. at the Bourbon Street Bar, and Roselyn’s gyrating her hips to the blues band, Sue’s sipping a cocktail and flirting with her new boyfriend, and Alan is scanning the crowd for cute girls.

“See those two?” a buxom blonde asks, pointing to an elegant couple at the bar. “They were caught having sex in their golf cart a few weeks ago. It happens a lot!”

Welcome to ground zero for geriatrics who are seriously getting it on.

It’s a Thursday night at one of a half-dozen hot spots at the 20,000-acre Central Florida complex called The Villages, the largest gated retirement community in America – and one of the most popular destinations for New Yorkers in their golden years – where the female-to-male ratio runs 10 to 1.

https://nypost.com/2009/01/25/retire-to-the-bedroom/

[radical noodle]

6. It's much larger now

It's eating up two counties now.

[radical noodle]

5. OMG... that's literally 10 minutes from me

(and that's considering there are about 8 stoplights between my house and there)

[TexasTowelie]

8. I hope that it doesn't interfere with traffic in your area so plan wisely.

I guess this thread has served a purpose as a PSA for my fellow DUers.

[radical noodle]

9. Yes, thanks!

I really thought he'd be going to another part of the villages. We're just north of them and he's coming to the north side of TV in Spanish Springs. I'm trying to figure out if there's a place for a helicopter to land. There's sure no place close for Air Force One to land.