“It’s a very discouraged place,” said Laurence Leamer, historian and author of “Mar-a-Lago: Inside the Gates of Power at Donald Trump’s Presidential Palace”, to MSNBC host Alex Witt on Saturday “Weekends with Alex Witt” . He said members “are not concerned with politics and said the food is not good”.
Leamer said he spoke to several former members who “left quietly” after Trump left office.
Disgruntled members may lead to a lower payment for Trump. When Trump was president, many people paid up to $ 200,000 for the Mar-a-Lago association, Leamer pointed out, and he said they don’t think they will continue to pay that price.
“You couldn’t exaggerate how comical it is,” said Kimmel on The Ringer’s “The Bill Simmons Podcast”. “Everyone is 100 years old.”
Kimmel told Simmons that he went to the resort about six years ago to have dinner with Howard Stern, who lived near the property at the time. He described the Mar-a-Lago participants as “stooped people who are eating soft foods” and said the place is covered in pictures of Trump.
“It was just a quiet and terrible place,” said Kimmel. “And now he lives in this terrible place.”
“Even here, people don’t like him,” said Leamer, referring to Palm Beach residents – many of whom voted for Trump in the hope of lower taxes and an expanding stock market. “It’s just another measure of how your power has waned.”