The NY Times is reporting that Trump is conducting most of his business at Mar-a-Lago these days after dark, often over dinner with whichever CEO or dignitary has traveled to offer fealty and tribute that day.
Of the more than 80 personnel announcements Mr. Trump has made since Election Day, 45 have been announced in social media posts and emails that he has sent after 6 p.m. Many have come after 10 p.m., prompting a wave of social media chatter and television coverage that sometimes continues throughout the night and into the early morning hours.
One of his veteran staff members said Mr. Trump was known to leave voice mail messages in the middle of the night saying: “This is your favorite president.” He sometimes follows up the next day, suggesting the person might want to share the audio with his friends and family.
Trump’s lovely spokesman Stephen Cheung says that Trump’s working night and day which is obviously bullshit.
But several people close to Mr. Trump — along with aides who have come to expect emails, texts and phone calls to arrive well after bedtime — say he is often just getting started around dinnertime.
That is usually when Mr. Trump walks out to the outdoor dining patio, always met with boisterous applause from people in the room — usually some mix of members, aides and advisers, cabinet picks, business executives, consultants and others eager for a presidential sighting.
So many people are just yearning to be subjects, aren’t they? It’s just stunning how eager they all are to treat him like some kind of potentate, maybe even a demi-God. I would say that I can’t imagine how anyone could do that but I worked in Hollywood where ass-kissing is a fine art and there are so many people who just love to fawn over the rich and famous. I suppose if you add in the power of the presidency they just drool at the prospect of prostrating themselves before him.
Here’s the lowdown on the Trudeau dinner where Trump “joked” that Canada could become a state if they don’t like him treating them like an enemy:
The dinner was an example of the ways in which Mr. Trump mixes business with pleasure at his club, particularly during dinners.
One Canadian official briefed on the dinner with Mr. Trudeau said the president-elect drank Diet Coke throughout the meal (it was repeatedly refilled) and used an iPad to control the music on the patio. (Among Mr. Trump’s musical choices: two renditions of “Hallelujah” by the Canadian songwriter Leonard Cohen, as well as a selection from Pavarotti and the musical “Cats.”)
At the end of the evening, Mr. Trump gave Mr. Trudeau a copy of Mar-a-Lago’s magazine, which included details about membership, as well as ads for plastic surgery and other products and services, according to the Canadian official, who was not authorized to speak with the press and asked for anonymity.
There’s a Mar-a-Lago magazine and he sells ads in it? Is there no end to the grift? It is nice of him to recommend the right plastic surgeons to achieve that Mar-a-Lago look though. Very convenient.
What is the Mar-a-Lago look?
It’s all the rage down there. If you do it right you might even become an ambassador.