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malaise

(269,063 posts) Tue Apr 17, 2018, 03:08 PM Apr 2018

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It's not the fucking Southern White House

It's your gaudy property and you continue to violate the Emoluments Clause with your vulgar attempt to advertise it. Go Cheney yourself.

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It's not the fucking Southern White House (Original Post) malaise Apr 2018 OP

Now he advertises the golf clubs malaise Apr 2018 #1

Ari calls it an infomercial that made no sense malaise Apr 2018 #2

I don't know - if i want the best chance of getting Trumps ear on my issue el_bryanto Apr 2018 #3

What a fine way for the Con to enrich himself malaise Apr 2018 #17

Ali didn't try to disguise his disgust spiderpig Apr 2018 #4

Me too - KT2000 Apr 2018 #5

Donnies' Dacha... Wounded Bear Apr 2018 #6

That's a good one! nt Ilsa Apr 2018 #25

Trump's story about Carter rejecting the site as a White House, oasis Apr 2018 #7

There is some truth to that but typically Trump got it wrong csziggy Apr 2018 #16

Yeah, that was one deal Dump pulled off like a fox. Ligyron Apr 2018 #21

Thanks for the full story. The Swindler in Chief left out oasis Apr 2018 #24

The Southern Shithouse moondust Apr 2018 #8

Yeah pretty much. 47of74 Apr 2018 #11

The moron didn't know what to call the WH in DC, when he said it was in tippy top shape Motley13 Apr 2018 #9

And after it's taken from you in asset forfeiture pecosbob Apr 2018 #10

Better yet convert it into low income housing 47of74 Apr 2018 #12

Nope. I wanna let homeless people live in it. Volaris Apr 2018 #13

Yeah I totally agree 47of74 Apr 2018 #31

It's the Trumpistas' Social Club. trof Apr 2018 #14

Why is Mar a Lago ridiculed architecturally? BigmanPigman Apr 2018 #15

I think it was ridiculed after tRump took ownership. Raine1967 Apr 2018 #19

Oh, OK that makes sense. BigmanPigman Apr 2018 #22

I was at a doctor appointment in a military hospital this morning and they only had Fox News helpisontheway Apr 2018 #18

Besides the fact, no southerner considers Florida part of the south. Tipperary Apr 2018 #20

I spend more time in South Florida than anywhere else in the US and you are 100% malaise Apr 2018 #23

The Southern White House, beachfront property in Florida. yallerdawg Apr 2018 #26

Well he did call off the oil drilling malaise Apr 2018 #27

For visual aesthetics! yallerdawg Apr 2018 #28

Just wait for the oil slick malaise Apr 2018 #30

It's the Southern Shit House RainCaster Apr 2018 #29

malaise

(269,063 posts)

1. Now he advertises the golf clubs

Reply to malaise (Original post)

Tue Apr 17, 2018, 03:10 PM

Apr 2018

This is one skeevy low life vulgarian

malaise

(269,063 posts)

2. Ari calls it an infomercial that made no sense

Reply to malaise (Original post)

Tue Apr 17, 2018, 03:13 PM

Apr 2018

since it's his private club.

el_bryanto

(11,804 posts)

3. I don't know - if i want the best chance of getting Trumps ear on my issue

Reply to malaise (Original post)

Tue Apr 17, 2018, 03:14 PM

Apr 2018

Maybe i'd better go play a few rounds of golf; take out the presidential suite. I'm sure Trump will look at my request more favorably then.

Or, i'm guessing, that's what petitioners are supposed to think.

Bryant

malaise

(269,063 posts)

17. What a fine way for the Con to enrich himself

Reply to el_bryanto (Reply #3)

Tue Apr 17, 2018, 05:48 PM

Apr 2018

It really looks bad

spiderpig

(10,419 posts)

4. Ali didn't try to disguise his disgust

Reply to malaise (Original post)

Tue Apr 17, 2018, 03:26 PM

Apr 2018

True to form, Spanky announced the Korean War was still going on as if we were as stupid as he is. You can always tell when he just learned something and projects an air of superiority over the unwashed masses.

I hate him.

KT2000

(20,584 posts)

5. Me too -

Reply to spiderpig (Reply #4)

Tue Apr 17, 2018, 03:34 PM

Apr 2018

he does not seem to have a clue about how ignorant he is. I wish the news would quit showing his face.

Wounded Bear

(58,670 posts)

6. Donnies' Dacha...

Reply to malaise (Original post)

Tue Apr 17, 2018, 03:34 PM

Apr 2018

Ilsa

(61,695 posts)

25. That's a good one! nt

Reply to Wounded Bear (Reply #6)

Tue Apr 17, 2018, 06:44 PM

Apr 2018

oasis

(49,392 posts)

7. Trump's story about Carter rejecting the site as a White House,

Reply to malaise (Original post)

Tue Apr 17, 2018, 03:39 PM

Apr 2018

so he (Trump) purchased it. First I heard of this. Sounded like more of Trump's unchecked bullshit.

csziggy

(34,136 posts)

16. There is some truth to that but typically Trump got it wrong

Reply to oasis (Reply #7)

Tue Apr 17, 2018, 05:40 PM

Apr 2018

Marjorie Merriweather Post, who died in 1973, had willed the 17-acre (6.9 ha) estate to the United States government as a Winter White House for presidents and visiting foreign dignitaries.[17] Richard Nixon preferred the Florida White House in Key Biscayne, however, and Jimmy Carter was not interested. The federal government soon realized the immense cost of maintenance, and the difficulty maintaining security for diplomats,[18] and returned it to the Post Foundation in 1981. It was then listed for sale for $20 million. Dina Merrill and Post's two other daughters did not maintain the property in the meanwhile, expecting to sell it.[19] But there was so little interest, the city approved its demolition to build smaller homes.[20]
Entrance gate in 2014

Donald Trump learned about the estate after unsuccessfully trying to purchase and combine two apartments in Palm Beach for his family. According to Trump, he offered the Post family $25 million for it, but they rejected it. Trump purchased the land between Mar-a-Lago and the ocean from Jack C. Massey, the former owner of KFC, for $2 million,[21] stating he intended to build a home that would block Mar-a-Lago's beach view. The threat caused interest in the property to decline, and Trump ended up getting the property for $7 million in 1985.[22][19] Trump then renovated the estate, adding a 20,000-square-foot (1,900 m2) ballroom.[20] The club also has five clay tennis courts and a waterfront pool.
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Mar-a-Lago#History

Ligyron

(7,636 posts)

21. Yeah, that was one deal Dump pulled off like a fox.

Reply to csziggy (Reply #16)

Tue Apr 17, 2018, 06:05 PM

Apr 2018

Jackass.

oasis

(49,392 posts)

24. Thanks for the full story. The Swindler in Chief left out

Reply to csziggy (Reply #16)

Tue Apr 17, 2018, 06:23 PM

Apr 2018

the embarrassing details.

moondust

(19,993 posts)

8. The Southern Shithouse

Reply to malaise (Original post)

Tue Apr 17, 2018, 03:43 PM

Apr 2018

47of74

(18,470 posts)

11. Yeah pretty much.

Reply to moondust (Reply #8)

Tue Apr 17, 2018, 05:26 PM

Apr 2018

Of course such an establishment would be classier

Motley13

(3,867 posts)

9. The moron didn't know what to call the WH in DC, when he said it was in tippy top shape

Reply to malaise (Original post)

Tue Apr 17, 2018, 04:33 PM

Apr 2018

he is a total imbecile

pecosbob

(7,541 posts)

10. And after it's taken from you in asset forfeiture

Reply to malaise (Original post)

Tue Apr 17, 2018, 05:21 PM

Apr 2018

we'll burn it to the ground and salt the earth...

47of74

(18,470 posts)

12. Better yet convert it into low income housing

Reply to pecosbob (Reply #10)

Tue Apr 17, 2018, 05:27 PM

Apr 2018

That would be his ultimate humiliation seeing poor and/or non white people living in what was his homes.

Volaris

(10,272 posts)

13. Nope. I wanna let homeless people live in it.

Reply to pecosbob (Reply #10)

Tue Apr 17, 2018, 05:30 PM

Apr 2018

Much much sweeter revenge.

(On Edit) 47 you beat me to it by THIS much lol...

47of74

(18,470 posts)

31. Yeah I totally agree

Reply to Volaris (Reply #13)

Tue Apr 17, 2018, 09:49 PM

Apr 2018

Letting people der Fuck Face doesn't like live in the properties is much sweeter revenge. Especially if they're Muslim, non-white, poor, or some combination thereof. Could you imagine the behind bars temper tantrums that would result?

trof

(54,256 posts)

14. It's the Trumpistas' Social Club.

Reply to malaise (Original post)

Tue Apr 17, 2018, 05:34 PM

Apr 2018

BigmanPigman

(51,611 posts)

15. Why is Mar a Lago ridiculed architecturally?

Reply to malaise (Original post)

Tue Apr 17, 2018, 05:38 PM

Apr 2018

It reminds me of Hearst Castle and the buildings in San Diego's Balboa Park built around the same time period. Mar a Lago was built in the 20s by the cereal heiress Marjorie Post.

"Mar-a-Lago is a resort and National Historic Landmark in Palm Beach, Florida, built from 1924 to 1927 by cereal-company heiress and socialite Marjorie Merriweather Post. The 126-room, 62,500-square-foot. The house contains the Mar-a-Lago Club, a members-only club with guest rooms, a spa, and other hotel-style amenities. It is located on the Palm Beach barrier island. Designed by Marion Sims Wyeth and Joseph Urban, Mar-a-Lago was willed in 1973 to the United States federal government as a retreat for presidents and visiting foreign dignitaries.The mansion was not, however, used for this purpose, prior to being declared a National Historic Landmark in 1980."

Raine1967

(11,589 posts)

19. I think it was ridiculed after tRump took ownership.

Reply to BigmanPigman (Reply #15)

Tue Apr 17, 2018, 05:58 PM

Apr 2018

I am not sure it's mocked for its architecture, but rather who owns it. I think what MArjorie Post fif was wonderful in willing it to the NPS.

Since it's on the national register, I think I am grateful that it can't be totally trumpified.

I understand that the Carter Administration could not justify the cost and that was why it was put on the market for public sale.

https://www.nytimes.com/1981/07/16/garden/post-home-for-sale-for-20.html

On her death in 1973 at age 86, Mrs. Post left the estate to the Federal Government to serve as a winter White House for Presidents and visiting heads of state. But Mar-a-Lago, lying directly in the flight path of the Palm Beach airport, proved too difficult to secure. And as the cost of keeping up the property soared beyond the funds Mrs. Post had provided, the Government returned it to the Post Foundation by an act of Congress that became effective April 1.

and there is this, from Wiki:

Donald Trump learned about the estate after unsuccessfully trying to purchase and combine two apartments in Palm Beach for his family. According to Trump, he offered the Post family $25 million for it, but they rejected it. Trump purchased the land between Mar-a-Lago and the ocean from Jack C. Massey, the former owner of KFC, for $2 million, stating he intended to build a home that would block Mar-a-Lago's beach view. The threat caused interest in the property to decline, and Trump ended up getting the property for $7 million in 1985. Trump then renovated the estate, adding a 20,000-square-foot (1,900 m2) ballroom. The club also has five clay tennis courts and a waterfront pool.

He used dirty tricks to lowball the price.

It's not the property, it's the owner.

BigmanPigman

(51,611 posts)

22. Oh, OK that makes sense.

Reply to Raine1967 (Reply #19)

Tue Apr 17, 2018, 06:05 PM

Apr 2018

helpisontheway

(5,008 posts)

18. I was at a doctor appointment in a military hospital this morning and they only had Fox News

Reply to malaise (Original post)

Tue Apr 17, 2018, 05:52 PM

Apr 2018

They kept referring to It as the southern White House too. 🙄🙄🙄

Tipperary

(6,930 posts)

20. Besides the fact, no southerner considers Florida part of the south.

Reply to malaise (Original post)

Tue Apr 17, 2018, 06:01 PM

Apr 2018

Certainly not south Florida. North Florida is more southern than south Florida. But you would have to live here to know that.

malaise

(269,063 posts)

23. I spend more time in South Florida than anywhere else in the US and you are 100%

Reply to Tipperary (Reply #20)

Tue Apr 17, 2018, 06:06 PM

Apr 2018

correct. There is nothing Southern about Miami

yallerdawg

(16,104 posts)

26. The Southern White House, beachfront property in Florida.

Reply to malaise (Original post)

Tue Apr 17, 2018, 07:02 PM

Apr 2018

Good thing we pulled out of Paris Climate Accords and are gutting the EPA.

Of course, when you're in your 70s, what do sociopaths worry about?

malaise

(269,063 posts)

27. Well he did call off the oil drilling

Reply to yallerdawg (Reply #26)

Tue Apr 17, 2018, 07:03 PM

Apr 2018

around his neighborhood

yallerdawg

(16,104 posts)

28. For visual aesthetics!

Reply to malaise (Reply #27)

Tue Apr 17, 2018, 07:19 PM

Apr 2018

This can be a little unnerving when they pop up off your beach:

malaise

(269,063 posts)

30. Just wait for the oil slick

Reply to yallerdawg (Reply #28)

Tue Apr 17, 2018, 07:36 PM

Apr 2018

RainCaster

(10,887 posts)

29. It's the Southern Shit House

Reply to malaise (Original post)

Tue Apr 17, 2018, 07:36 PM

Apr 2018

Meant to house the Cheeto Tweeter

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