Funny Cartoon Pictures Making Fun of Donald Trump
According to an ongoing analysis by NBC News, President Donald Trump has now spent more than a year's worth of days at a Trump property since taking office. This amounts to nearly a third of his 3.5-year-long presidency.
Just last week, when his younger brother Robert Trump was hospitalized, the president visited him on Friday, August 14th, at Manhattan's New York-Presbyterian. On Saturday, August 15th, Robert Trump passed away—earlier that day, the president was photographed playing golf at his Bedminster, NJ club. (While it's widely known that Trump plays a lot of golf—not even a pandemic could stop him from hitting the links—it has been harder to track this activity as his administration often tries to conceals his golf outings.)
Moving into the White House in 2017 granted him access to Camp David as a country retreat, but Trump already had an array of impressive properties at his disposal. And judging by all the trips he's taken to them as president—costing taxpayers millions in the process—he clearly prefers his own places to a government-issued one.
Here's a survey of Trump's personal real estate portfolio.
Trump Tower Penthouse, New York City
Trump's New York City residence is a gilded, three-level penthouse 66 stories up at the top of Trump Tower, his skyscraper at 725 Fifth Avenue. (Barron, his 14-year-old son, reportedly has a floor all to himself.) His offices were also in the building, so living and working at the same address was not new to him when he moved into 1600 Pennsylvania Avenue. The White House decor might be a bit subdued though, since the penthouse was modeled after the Palace of Versailles, with rococo decor and a profuse amount of gold.
Trump took Forbes on a tour of the penthouse during the presidential election and told the publication that it was the "best apartment ever built" and bragged about its 33,000-square-foot size and estimated value of at least $200 million. The trouble is, according to Forbes , "those comments were typical Trump: boastful and inaccurate." The residence is actually 10,996 square feet and worth an estimated $54 million.
Check it out in the video tour, from an old episode of The Apprentice, below.
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In May 2019, Bloomberg reported that Trump Tower had become one of the least desirable condos in New York City for its association with the president. Not only are protests a frequent sighting by the entrance, but in July of this year, the city painted "Black Lives Matter" in giant block letters on the street in front of the building. Mayor Bill de Blasio, who was there for the occasion, said, "Black lives matter in our city, and Black lives matter in the United States of America. Let's show Donald Trump what he does not understand. Let's paint it right in front of his building for him."
Mar-a-Lago, Palm Beach
It comes as no surprise that Mar-a-Lago is where the president has spent most of his 378 days at a personal property (he has so far spent 133 days there). In 2014, Trump proclaimed that the 128-room mansion built by cereal heiress Marjorie Merriweather Post in 1927, is "the great estate of Palm Beach." He has also taken to calling it the "Winter White House," despite the fact that it is not a publicly owned or maintained building and is something of a security nightmare. Nevertheless, he has used the private club for official business, such as when he hosted President Xi Jinping of China in 2017 for a two-day summit.
Interestingly, Post had always wanted Mar-a-Lago to become a public property. She donated it to the U.S. government upon her death, but in 1980 it was returned to Post's daughters because of the $1 million in annual maintenance costs. Trump bought the 17-acre property for $5 million in 1985 and turned it into a private club ten years later, adding a 20,000-square foot ballroom with $7 million of golf leaf and spending $100,000 on four gold-plated sinks.
Today, the privilege of hobnobbing with Trump as a member reportedly involves a $200,000 (up from the pre-election rate of $100,000) initiation fee plus yearly dues of $14,000 and annual food minimum of $2,000. Trump made $15.6 million from the club in 2014.
In 2017, the Government Accountability Office tried to accurately calculate how much the president's frequent Mar-a-Lago visits were costing taxpayers but failed to get the full picture because the White House declined to provide more information. They did conclude, however, that four trips the president had taken to Mar-a-Lago over one month in 2017 had cost at least $13.6 million.
In addition to Mar-a-Lago, the president has three additional homes in Palm Beach that are collectively worth $25 million.
Trump National Golf Club, Bedminster Township, New Jersey
Arguably the president's second favorite retreat after Mar-a-Lago, the Trump National has been dubbed the "Summer White House." He has also taken to calling his trips there "working vacations."
While the main house of the Bedminster, New Jersey, property is a private club open to members (at a reported cost of $350,000), the Trump family owns cottages on the property. Ivanka Trump and Jared Kushner got married there in 2009, and they won an application to expand their cottage by 2,200 square feet in 2015.
Trump loves the area so much he once wanted to be buried there. (He has since allegedly switched his intended resting place to Florida.)
In 2018, it was revealed that Trump staffers received member discounts (of up to 70%) at the club's pro shop—reportedly Ivanka's idea—alarming the Citizens for Responsibility and Ethics, a government ethics watchdog in D.C.
Seven Springs, Bedford, New York
As one of Trump's more under-the-radar residences, Seven Springs has 60 rooms—15 of which are bedrooms—in addition to a bowling alley and three pools. He reportedly paid $7.5 million for the property in 1996 and planned to turn it into a golf course but it has remained a private house to this day (probably because of vehement opposition to the plan from local residents). Today the property is worth $24 million, according to Forbes.
Bedford is about 45 miles north of New York City, and the Trump family seems to use the 50,000-square-foot house, built in 1919 by former Federal Reserve Chairman and Washington Post publisher Eugene Meyer (he was the father of Katharine Graham), as a weekend and summer getaway. Trump reportedly, and perhaps unwittingly, allowed the late Libyan dictator Muammar Gaddafi to stay in a tent there during the United Nations General Assembly meeting in 2009 when no hotels would allow Gaddafi as a guest.
Here's another video tour to check out:
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Trump Winery, Charlottesville, Virginia
Trump Winery has a long and strange history (read all about it here). To summarize, Trump paid the "bargain-basement price of $8.5 million on a deal that could ultimately be worth $170 million," netting him 1,100 Virginia acres, including the vineyards and winemaking operation "that had been meticulously cultivated by its previous owner, Patricia Kluge (who defaulted on her loans, after which the property was seized by Bank of America). He installed his second-oldest son, Eric, as president of the nascent Trump Winery.
Today, the 23,000-square-foot, 45-room main building, Ablemarle House, is part of the Trump Hotels brand (a recent search showed rates starting at $299 per night). And while Trump said at an August 15 press conference that he owns "one of the largest wineries in the United States," the winery's website itself states that it "is a registered trade name of Eric Trump Wine Manufacturing LLC, which is not owned, managed or affiliated with Donald J. Trump, The Trump Organization or any of their affiliates" (head here for more on that claim).
Elsewhere in the state, Trump owns two homes in Sterling, Virginia (close to the Trump National Washington D.C. golf club) that are worth $1.5 million.
Le Château des Palmiers, St. Martin
President Trump put this walled Caribbean compound on the market in the spring of 2017 with a reported listing price of $28 million, which was soon dropped to $16.9 million. Le Château des Palmiers, which Trump bought in 2013 and has used primarily as a rental property, includes nine bedrooms and 12 full bathrooms. There are two villas, in addition to pool cabanas and an estate manager's house, on the five-acre estate.
The property also features "a huge heated pool, an open air and air conditioned fitness center, a tennis court, and covered outdoor bar, [and] billiards and dining areas," according to the original listing.
Rental prices reportedly start at $6,000 per night in the low season for the smaller of the two villas and go up to $28,000 during the winter holiday season.
There is no information on whether the property has since sold, but it is still on the Trump Organization's website and Forbes estimated it to be worth $13 million in October 2019.
Where It All Began: Donald Trump's Childhood Home in Queens, New York
The 2,500-square-foot house, which the president's father built in 1940, was, for a short while, available to rent for $725 a night on Airbnb.
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