• FrChazzz@lemmus.org
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    17 hours ago

    There isn’t a golf course at Mar-a-Lago. The course is a few miles south and in West Palm (hilariously in a fairly rough part of town). But there’s way more green there than I remembered. But I’m guessing they don’t want guests to look out a window and see a missile battery on the lawn lol.

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      17 hours ago

      Well I’m completely missing something then. If there’s no golf then what’s the place for?

      Also, grass parking with a half empty parking lot?

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        10 hours ago

        It was originally built as a presidential residence.

        Then Trump bought it after the US Government offloaded it and much later it’s now technically a presidential residence.

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        17 hours ago

        I’m assuming that the the grass on the lake/intracoastal side (left hand in the photo) is parking for events and tennis. But the place is basically a dinner club. I’ve only ever been to the older clubs (used to date a girl whose family was generationally loaded and were members at the Beach, Sailfish, and Everglades clubs—none of which wouldn’t admit Trump as a member, which is why he turned Mar-a-Lago into a club in the first place). But they’re just overwrought places where the ultra rich socialize, eat, and have fancy parties.