Comments by "" (@hewitc) on "Inside Donald Trump's Mansion: Mar-a-Lago" video.

  1. The Post pictures are beautiful. Back then it was a private residence. Today it is a commercial property. Hundreds of paying customers eat at the restaurants, swim in the pool and work out in the gym. It is a for-profit resort and not a “club” like the other equity-member, not for profit clubs on Palm Beach. It is just like the “club” at the Breakers Hotel. Trump was not allowed to live in this commercially zoned property. After the Much lobbying the Town bent the rules. Trump can live in the apartment only because he is an “employee” of the company. Calling this beautiful property a home is like calling the NYC department store Bergdorf Goodman a “home” because Mr Goodman had a secret apartment on the top floor of the store. Goodman’s was actually larger than Trump’s modest quarters. Not where you would expect a ‘Billionaire’ to live. No other real Palm Beach Billionaire lives like that, with strangers eating in the dining room and swimming in the pool. Would you if you really had Billions. Mrs Post was wealthier and she was not just an heiress. She was a successful businesswoman who greatly expanded her father’s business.
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  2. By the terms of the deed and the agreement with the National Trust for Historic Preservation, the property must be used in perpetuum as a club or recreational facility and may never be used a a private residence. That's why the assessed value is so low. It's a permanent commercial property. A Billionaire cannot purchase it and convert it into a private home.
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  3.  @richardcharles5457  One who failed at every business? Sharp guy who went bankrupt owning casinos. Sorry, didn't realize you were kidding.
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  4.  @lovly2cu725  ALSO THE SIZE OF THE FONTS HE USED.
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  5. It will and must be. By the terms of the deed and the agreement with the National Trust for Historic Preservation, the property must be used in perpetuum as a club or recreational facility and may never be used a a private residence. That's why the assessed value is so low. It's a permanent commercial property. A Billionaire cannot purchase it and convert it into a private home.
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  6.  @lovly2cu725  By the terms of the deed and the agreement with the National Trust for Historic Preservation, the property must be used in perpetuum as a club or recreational facility and may never be used a a private residence. That's why the assessed value is so low. It's a permanent commercial property. A Billionaire cannot purchase it and convert it into a private home.
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  7. Because of the $500M judgment against Trump in the NY civil fraud case. In view of his difficulty in getting an appeal bond because of a lack of liquid assets it it possible that Trump will not be able to pay the judgment. So there may be a foreclosure.
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  8.  @gymshoe8862  Great businessman in the casino business!
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  9. By the terms of the deed and the agreement with the National Trust for Historic Preservation, the property must be used in perpetuum as a club or recreational facility and may never be used a a private residence. That's why the assessed value is so low. It's a permanent commercial property. A Billionaire cannot purchase it and convert it into a private home.
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  10. Others? He destroyed the Henri Bendel Art Deco building in NYC. The preservation was being considered by Landmarks so he destroyed the facade at night.
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  11. Everything gold? "The poor man's idea of a rich man"
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