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Insanity. Some MAGAts think Mar-a-Lago is America's own Versailles, a new version of Camelot.
From a New Yorker article (which they're getting criticized for):
https://www.newyorker.com/news/dispatch/donald-trumps-administration-hopefuls-descend-on-mar-a-lago
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The night before, the America First Policy Institute, a conservative think tank that is involved in the planning for Trump’s second term, had held a gala at Mar-a-Lago. Ric Grenell, Trump’s former Ambassador to Germany, attended despite having just been passed over for Secretary of State in favor of Marco Rubio. Musk and Javier Milei, Argentina’s President, spoke to the group. Milei, a libertarian who clones his dogs, was the first foreign leader Trump met with as President-elect. At the dinner, Trump was introduced by Sylvester Stallone, who compared him to Rocky Balboa. Rocky, Stallone said, “was going to go through a metamorphosis and change lives, just like President Trump. . . . I love mythology. This individual does not exist on this planet.” Trump, in a tuxedo, looking much more rested than he did when I last saw him, on Election Night, took the stage and spoke briefly about politics. “We’re conservative in this room, but we can understand the other side,” he said. “What we really are,” he said, calling out Tulsi Gabbard, Vivek Ramaswamy, Robert F. Kennedy, Jr., Elon Musk, Newt Gingrich, and Milei, are “people with common sense.”
Trump announced that his second term would usher in an era of opulence and glamour. The stock market had “gone through the roof” since the election. Then he told the crowd at Mar-a-Lago about the people he had seen around the country. “They just wanted hope,” he said. “They wanted something; they just didn’t want what they had. . . . When I went around, I heard something that was very interesting: the word ‘grocery.’ It’s sort of such a strange and simple, nice word, you know, ‘I’m going out for groceries today.’ . . . I tell a story about a woman, she got three apples, an old woman, she had three apples and she brought them up to the cash register and she looked at the woman and she said, ‘Is that the right price?’ and the woman said ‘Yes, Ma’am, I’m sorry, yes it is.’ And she said, ‘Oh that’s O.K., could you wait one minute?’ and she took one of the three apples and she brought it back to the refrigeration and she came back gently up to the cash register, and she paid for two apples instead of three.” Those days of scarcity were over, Trump said. When Mar-a-Lago was built, in 1927, for the socialite cereal heiress Marjorie Post, “it was a Roaring Twenties. We’re hotter now than they ever were in the Roaring Twenties, I believe. We’re going to be a lot hotter.”
For decades, Trump was shunned by the Palm Beach establishment. “The social elite of Palm Beach had regarded Trump as a vulgar interloper when he first came to the island,” Laurence Leamer writes, in “Mar-a-Lago: Inside the Gates of Power at Donald Trump’s Presidential Palace.” He had long wanted to remake Palm Beach society with Mar-a-Lago at its center. In 1993, he bused in models and Miami Dolphins cheerleaders for a “bachelor ball” on the same night as the Old Guard was at an International Red Cross charity benefit. Arguably, Trump’s first real political campaign was to attempt to persuade the Palm Beach Town Council to let him convert historic Mar-a-Lago into a club; he thought it was preposterous that he had to seek zoning approval for a property he owned. “Much of the origins of Donald Trump’s disdain toward what he considers the country’s entrenched, unresponsive political establishment originates in this experience in Palm Beach,” Leamer writes. When the club opened, Trump pretended that Princess Diana and Prince Charles, along with Steven Spielberg and Norman Mailer, were founding members. Three decades later, he had his own set of “counter-élites” at Mar-a-Lago. When I met Rick Lacey, the chairman of the Brevard County G.O.P., at Mar-a-Lago on Super Tuesday, he had told me that Trump’s resort was the closest thing America had to its own Versailles. I asked him last week about the group gathered there post-election. “I think we’re going to see a new version of Camelot—between friends, celebrities, powerful business people coming together, socializing and defining a new direction, just kind of a feel.”
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The night before, the America First Policy Institute, a conservative think tank that is involved in the planning for Trump’s second term, had held a gala at Mar-a-Lago. Ric Grenell, Trump’s former Ambassador to Germany, attended despite having just been passed over for Secretary of State in favor of Marco Rubio. Musk and Javier Milei, Argentina’s President, spoke to the group. Milei, a libertarian who clones his dogs, was the first foreign leader Trump met with as President-elect. At the dinner, Trump was introduced by Sylvester Stallone, who compared him to Rocky Balboa. Rocky, Stallone said, “was going to go through a metamorphosis and change lives, just like President Trump. . . . I love mythology. This individual does not exist on this planet.” Trump, in a tuxedo, looking much more rested than he did when I last saw him, on Election Night, took the stage and spoke briefly about politics. “We’re conservative in this room, but we can understand the other side,” he said. “What we really are,” he said, calling out Tulsi Gabbard, Vivek Ramaswamy, Robert F. Kennedy, Jr., Elon Musk, Newt Gingrich, and Milei, are “people with common sense.”
Trump announced that his second term would usher in an era of opulence and glamour. The stock market had “gone through the roof” since the election. Then he told the crowd at Mar-a-Lago about the people he had seen around the country. “They just wanted hope,” he said. “They wanted something; they just didn’t want what they had. . . . When I went around, I heard something that was very interesting: the word ‘grocery.’ It’s sort of such a strange and simple, nice word, you know, ‘I’m going out for groceries today.’ . . . I tell a story about a woman, she got three apples, an old woman, she had three apples and she brought them up to the cash register and she looked at the woman and she said, ‘Is that the right price?’ and the woman said ‘Yes, Ma’am, I’m sorry, yes it is.’ And she said, ‘Oh that’s O.K., could you wait one minute?’ and she took one of the three apples and she brought it back to the refrigeration and she came back gently up to the cash register, and she paid for two apples instead of three.” Those days of scarcity were over, Trump said. When Mar-a-Lago was built, in 1927, for the socialite cereal heiress Marjorie Post, “it was a Roaring Twenties. We’re hotter now than they ever were in the Roaring Twenties, I believe. We’re going to be a lot hotter.”
For decades, Trump was shunned by the Palm Beach establishment. “The social elite of Palm Beach had regarded Trump as a vulgar interloper when he first came to the island,” Laurence Leamer writes, in “Mar-a-Lago: Inside the Gates of Power at Donald Trump’s Presidential Palace.” He had long wanted to remake Palm Beach society with Mar-a-Lago at its center. In 1993, he bused in models and Miami Dolphins cheerleaders for a “bachelor ball” on the same night as the Old Guard was at an International Red Cross charity benefit. Arguably, Trump’s first real political campaign was to attempt to persuade the Palm Beach Town Council to let him convert historic Mar-a-Lago into a club; he thought it was preposterous that he had to seek zoning approval for a property he owned. “Much of the origins of Donald Trump’s disdain toward what he considers the country’s entrenched, unresponsive political establishment originates in this experience in Palm Beach,” Leamer writes. When the club opened, Trump pretended that Princess Diana and Prince Charles, along with Steven Spielberg and Norman Mailer, were founding members. Three decades later, he had his own set of “counter-élites” at Mar-a-Lago. When I met Rick Lacey, the chairman of the Brevard County G.O.P., at Mar-a-Lago on Super Tuesday, he had told me that Trump’s resort was the closest thing America had to its own Versailles. I asked him last week about the group gathered there post-election. “I think we’re going to see a new version of Camelot—between friends, celebrities, powerful business people coming together, socializing and defining a new direction, just kind of a feel.”
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so she had to take one back with tears in her eyes. Only MAGAts believe crap like that. 
