Which would be fine. The neighbors don’t seem to mind it being a private club open to them, they have a problem with Trump living there full time.
Or if they rescind their agreement then Trump could just not sell it and… live there full time.
If he were to live there full time, it would not be them rescinding their agreements, it would be him abrogating those agreements.
Which, in response, the community of Palm Beach may end up sanctioning his business in some ways.
He is the one who wants to have it both ways. Palm Beach may not have the ability to make him choose what they prefer him to do, but they should have the ability to prevent him from having both.
If he wants to live there, by himself, in a massive property with massive costs, and no legal revenue, then that’s not the option that Palm Beach would prefer, but it may be one they end up having to allow.
Actually, considering the number of members leaving, they seem to have a problem with the “private club” angle, too. These days they seem to be wishing that the orange horror would just disappear.
I’m sure they wouldn’t mind a private club run by someone else.
They must have some sort of live-in caretaker or maintenance guy who can be got out of bed at odd hours to fix things. Even I would be impressed if my fees included an ex-president doing the pre-dawn plunger call when the toilet erupts at 4 AM. Now that’s what I call service.
Maybe Progressive Insurance can do some fresh ads akin to the whole insipid “At home with Baker Mayfield” series. Which was funny the first couple times, but they made way too many of them shown way too often.
“At Mar-a-Lago with Donald Trump”, where he’s jiggling toilets, adjusting sprinklers on the 5th green, whatever. As long as the sound was off so I never heard his voice I’d actually watch something like that just for the lulz.
Mar-a-Lago: Palm Beach completes legal review of Trump’s residency - CNNPolitics
looks like it all comes down to being an employee.
So, that link has an auto-playing video that starting with Trump speaking, and I realized it has been weeks since I heard that. Yay!
Boo to that site for making me listen to him, at least until I could click the pause button.
Anecdotal.
They were using “former President” six times in that article to describe Trump. Are they afraid that readers might not remember who they’re talking about or do they just enjoy writing “former President”?
Consistent w/ my prior experiences w/ zoning boards and such, they will basically do whatever the hell they want to do, whatever the plain language of any applicable statutes, agreements, whatever.
Yeah - it has been nice, hasn’t it. Weird to balance a minor curiosity about what is going on w/ the jerk - hoping all manner of unpleasantness for him, w/ the joy of not needing to hear/think of him.
CNN is notorious for autoplay videos 
So if he’s an employee, what is he getting paid? Is he getting taxed on the value of whatever income he receives? Pretty sure that room and board is considered taxable income for most jobs (unless the job is one that REQUIRES you to live onsite)…
From the article:
He added that the town code definition of employee “includes sole proprietors, partners, limited partners, corporate officers and the like.”
Its simple, just look at his tax returns.
I’m not worried that money from Mar-A-Lago would find its way into Trump’s bank account. My question is, what work does Trump do to earn it?
And my attitude is more “how’s it getting reported for tax purposes” - as lodging provided by one’s place of employment is often taxable remuneration.
In a capitalist system, an owner doesn’t have to work to earn money. The town ordinances include owners as employees, so apparently there is no requirement that he be working.
This is an interesting question to me. When this contract was negotiated, presumably the negotiators knew whether they minded whether Donald Trump lived there full time. They could have written him out of the definition of “employee” has that been their intent. I’m guessing at the time they just didn’t want out-of-town members living there and didn’t care so much about Trump.
They didn’t care as long as the cash was flowing in. And they still don’t. Keep the cash flowing in is all they ever cared about.
The contract itself shows that it’s not the only thing they cared about. Donald Trump couldn’t afford to maintain the property as a private residence, so that’s why he asked for rezoning.
The town and neighbors preferred that it be maintained as a private residence, but to preserve the property from being torn down, they compromised. Their main concerns seemed to be:
(1) They didn’t want a shitload of traffic coming through
(2) They didn’t want it to be a hotel to attract a bunch of riff-raff
(3) They didn’t want it to be a hideaway for out-of-town rich people
(4) They didn’t want it to be converted to high-density housing
(5) They didn’t want the historic structures to be torn down
So they agreed for it to be converted to a private club, with the restrictions that a certain percentage of the members must be local and members couldn’t live there. Hence the overnight stay restrictions. They made an exception for employees who would need to live on the grounds for its operation. They could have specified what they specifically meant by employees, but left that to the definition found in the local ordinances. If they didn’t want Donald Trump living there full time, they could have been more specific in the contract.
Ironically, Marjorie Merriwether Post wanted it to actually be used as a presidential residence and tried to give it to the federal government, but the government didn’t want it.