This is a close up look of IVANKA TRUMP’S shoes during her father’s 2020 campaign.
By Barbara KisKis
January 25, 2021
Her shoes were made for walking…
Month: January 2021
Story of The Mar-a-Lago Club
The Mar-a-Lago Club
The luxury estate, spanning 20 acres of prime waterfront real estate in Palm Beach,
was dubbed the “Winter White House” long before President Donald Trump took ownership.
Mar-a-Lago, which means “Sea to Lake” in Spanish sits between the Atlantic Ocean and the Intracoastal waterway.
Its original owner, cereal heiress Marjorie Merriweather Post, bequeathed it to the federal government upon her death in 1973 and requested it be used as an official wintertime presidential retreat. Presidents Nixon, Ford and Carter passed on the chance to make the mansion their Winter White House. Maintenance costs for the 58-bedroom, 33-bathroom estate proved to be too much, so President Jimmy Carter gave the estate back to the Post family in the early 1980s.
Shortly after that, Trump began negotiations to buy it. He closed the deal in 1985, purchasing it for a reported $8 million — $5 million for the property and $3 million for Post’s furnishings. Not a bad deal considering it was built over four years in the early 1920s at an estimated cost of $7 million, which is about $90 million today, according to Smithsonian Magazine.
Trump established the property as a luxury country club in 1995 and
changed the name from simply Mar-a-Lago to The Mar-a-Lago Club.
Mar-a-Lago trivia
Membership costs include an initiation fee of $200,000 plus tax, $14,000 annual dues (plus tax) and a $2,000 food minimum.
Amenities include a pool facility, spa, fitness center, salon, tennis courts, croquet court, pitch-and-putt golf course and two ballrooms.
It’s a five-minute drive to Trump International Golf Club.
The property was placed on the National Register of Historic Places in 1972.
The hurricane-resistant structure is anchored to a coral reef by concrete and steel.
Trump built a 20,000-square-foot ballroom with $7 million in gold leaf and four gold-plated sinks worth $100,000.
When Trump is in residence, he and his family stay in a private wing
Notable members have included Steven Spielberg, Denzel Washington and Elizabeth Taylor,
according to Town & Country magazine.
Notable concert performers include Céline Dion, Billy Joel and Diana Ross
Notable attendees to events include Hillary Clinton, Jennifer Lopez, Michael Jackson, Sean “P. Diddy, Sylvester Stallone, William Shatner, Vanessa Williams, Jay Leno, Shirley MacLaine, Jennifer Hudson, Martin Short, Lionel Richie, Woody Allen and Rod Stewart
Mar-a-Lago earned a 6-Star Diamond Award from the American Academy of Hospitality Sciences.
and hello Mar-a-Lago.
PEACE & HAPPINESS to their entire family.
January, 21, 2021
Florida-ready Melania in FLATS
Donald and Melania Trump have arrived in Mar-a-Lago after fleeing Washington DC, where Joe Biden was sworn in as the 46th President, to start their new life after vowing that we haven’t seen the last of them and telling fans it was the honor ‘of their lifetime’ to serve as President and First Lady.
Melania, who wore a black Chanel suit and $60,000 Hermes bag with a pair of towering Christian Louboutin heels in the morning, had changed into a more comfortable and colorful $3,700 Gucci dress and a pair of $550 Roger Vivier flat pumps.
Supporters of President Donald Trump wave as they wait for the motorcade on the road to Mar-a-Lago, Trump’s Palm Beach estate, on Wednesday, Jan. 20, 2021.
By BARBARA KISKIS
January 20, 2021
NUCLEAR FOOTBALL
Donald Trump’s decision to not attend Joe Biden’s inauguration has caused serious logistical problems for perhaps the most sensitive section of the presidential handover: the nuclear codes.
During a normal inauguration ceremony, the nuclear football, which contains the equipment the president uses to authenticate his orders and launch a nuclear strike, is handed over from one presidential aide to another at the stroke of noon.
Trump will leave Washington DC at around 8am, however, and fly to his Florida estate, Mar-a-Lago.As president, he will take the nuclear football with him.
‘There are at least three to four identical ‘footballs’: one follows the president, one follows the vice president, and one traditionally is set aside for the designated survivor at events like inaugurations and State of the Union addresses,’ he said.
‘On 20 January, the extra footballs will be out of town somewhere with their designees, leaving just Mike Pence’s briefcase unless the White House Military Office has prepared (or already has on hand) another backup for Mr Biden.’
The president carries with him at all times a plastic card, known as ‘the biscuit,’ which contains codes that identify the president, who is the only person authorized to launch nuclear weapons.
The Constitution gives Trump control of nuclear attacks until the very second that Biden is sworn in.
Trump’s ‘biscuit’ will be deactivated at noon, and Biden’s come in to force.
The aide with the 45-pound briefcase containing the nuclear football will then leave Florida
and fly back to Washington DC.
A case belonging to the military aide with the nuclear codes is seen in June 2017
Trump will become the first president since 1869 not to attend his successor’s inauguration.
The Constitution does not require an outgoing president to attend an incoming president’s inauguration, and Trump will be the fourth not to, after John Adams, the second U.S. president; John Quincy Adams, the sixth president; and Andrew Johnson, the 17th president and the first to be impeached. All three were also one-term presidents.
January 20, 2021
Melania in BLACK
In the final hours of her husband’s presidency, Melania Trump wore head-to-toe black
while departing the White House.
The outgoing first lady, who often used her clothes to send messages during the Trump administration, donned the chic mourning look while boarding on Air Force One for Mar-a-Lago.
Noticeably, the first lady did not wear any American designers. Instead, she opted for a Chanel jacket, a Dolce and Gabbana dress and heels by Christian Louboutin.
Her purse, a crocodile Birkin bag from Hermès, is worth upwards of $50,000.
Melania Trump goodbye message promotes ‘love over hatred, peace over violence’.
We say farewell to President Trump and Melania…
GOD BLESS YOU and thank you for keeping us out of wars.
IT’S NOT THE END…IT’S THE BEGINNING.
By BARBARA KISKIS
January 20, 2021
BYE BYE MELANIA
As our FIRST LADY Melania Trump and her husband, President Donald J. Trump
exit the White House next week, I thought it waold be fitting
to pay tribute to her fashions over the last three plus years.
Stunning look, Christmas party 2020 White House.
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