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Mar-a-Lago isn't the Florida White House, the White House is the mid-Atlantic Mar-a-Lago, where the amiable proprietor wanders the halls looking for guests to schmooze with, because he can't just watch television all day. Unlike some people. Via Raw Story, Washington Post report on the forthcoming Team of Vipers: My 500 Extraordinary Days in the White House by Cliff Sims, former Special Assistant to the President and Director of White House Message Strategy, who "soon found himself pulled into the President’s inner circle as a confidante, an errand boy, an advisor, a punching bag, and a friend. Sometimes all in the same conversation":
“Most people want to keep parts of the White House private for their families and themselves,” said presidential historian Douglas Brinkley. “[Trump]’s very restless and doesn’t like desk work. He’d rather roam around and B.S. with people than hunker down.”
Trump frequently tells guests that his private dining room was in “rough shape” when he arrived, and two White House officials and two other sources confirmed that he claims President Barack Obama spent much of his time there watching television.
“He just sat in here and watched basketball all day,” Trump told a recent group, and then bragged that he had gotten a much bigger TV than Obama had.You know what he really wants is to use the place for sales conferences, team-building exercises, and as a wedding venue. White House Weddings, where you're not just the father of the bride, for a couple of days you're a senior adviser to the most powerful man in the world. A few renovations and he could make tons of money out of it.
Note from Yglesias:
They generally play basketball games at night. https://t.co/n3yV6q8T5Q— Matthew Yglesias (@mattyglesias) January 28, 2019
Trump's right on that last point, anyway. He is certainly the tour-givingest president ever, since all the previous ones found they had work to do.
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