MAR-A-LAGO: The FUTURE WHITE HOUSE?
A deep dive into an obscure archive reveals that the Palm Beach property had once been envisioned as a “Winter White House”
Within 48 hours after the presidential election last November, the
Palm Beach Daily News headlined a question that “many in town” were asking:
“Trump’s Mar-a-Lago: Another Winter White House?”
And the original Mar-a-Lago proposal, the one bound in red leather, was to donate it to the state of Florida for a center for advanced scholars, but state officials also balked at the maintenance costs.
By 1968, according to other papers in the archive, Post had turned to
Plan B: Mar-a-Lago as winter White House, property of the United States. After she died, in 1973, at age 86, the Post Foundation pursued the idea. But in 1981, the federal government declined, for the same reason the Floridians and the Smithsonian did.
Thus Mar-a-Lago went on the market. Three potential sales collapsed before
Donald Trump bought it in 1985, paying a reported $8 million for the estate and its furnishings—a small fraction of the original cost, no matter how you calculate it. And after three decades and the most confounding presidential election in living memory, Marjorie Merriweather Post’s wish for her mansion came true.
https://www.smithsonianmag.com/history/history-mar-a-lago-180965214/
Trump's Mar-A-Lago has 3 bomb shelters and a SCIF.
Could this be the new White House under the new government that is being implemented?
Perhaps it makes sense why Trump's family has recently bought homes in Florida.
