I’m not sure why this makes me so happy; it’s not like deposed Papaya Pinochet is my close neighbor, but nonetheless, a new item joins the very short list of things I like about summer:
Trump relocating to New Jersey after Mar-A-Lago closes for summer: Sources
Former president Donald Trump may temporarily move from Florida to another one of his properties in New Jersey.
The twice-impeached one-term president and his team may relocate from his Mar-A-Lago resort to his golf course in Bedminster, New Jersey, unnamed Trump advisers told Business Insider.
“They’re moving the whole operation to New Jersey because they’re going to start doing more fundraising,” said one Trump advisor familiar with the discussions.
The Palm Beach resort, where Trump has lived since leaving the White House, closes just after Memorial Day due to the hot and humid weather in South Florida.
To paraphrase my tweet upon hearing the news earlier, I figured that walking heap of overfilled liposuction clinic medical waste bags wouldn’t have the fortitude to endure the hellish, skull-pounding heat and suffocating humidity of a Florida summer.
“Florida Man” my ass!
Hopefully the entire school of remoras that suction onto Trump’s flabby fuselage will make the trip north with him, not just the ones currently shaking down GOP marks. Oh wait, that’s all of them, isn’t it?
Anyhoo, bon voyage-y, dickheads! Sorry for your luck, Jerseyites — have fun hosting that pack of heat-intolerant chudwagons until Labor Day!
Open thread.
LTC (ret) Grossman Has Grossly Misrepresented Himself, His Service, and His Qualifications
Baud
A guy can dream.
PaulWartenberg
What a pussy.
And why are they closing down for summer, they don’t want to run up their A/C bills or something???
trump should never have been allowed to “live” at Mar-A-Lago, mostly because it wasn’t zoned to be a residence in the first place. How he got around that rule is a goddamned shame.
Shantanu Saha
Looking forward to my state hitting him up for income taxes for the duration of his residency.
Not looking forward to him living an hours drive away from my house.
Ceci n est pas mon nym
I hear there’s plenty of vacancies at the Trump Plaza in Atlantic City.
Anoniminous
Dr. Phil Klotzbach at Colorado State University predicting 17 named storms in the Atlantic this year. Five more than an average season. Not inconceivable one could make landfall in NJ, wiping out his property there.
I’d laugh
patrick II
I was worried about DeSantis being unwilling to extradite Trump and what kind of national/legal struggle that might turn into, but, hey, moving closer to the site of the future trial is fine by me.
Amir Khalid
I am surprised that Mar-a-Lago closes for the summer. Don’t people go to Florida precisely for the hot weather? The weather there in summer is the same as in Malaysia, and in the Before Times we had loads of tourists coming here.
Jim, Foolish Literalist
@Anoniminous: I hope a sinkhole opens up on the 12th green right as he drives his cart up on it
Benw
Well, one of the good things about Trump is nothing.
There’s nothing good about that shithead.
Mike in NC
@PaulWartenberg: Rules only apply to little people, as we see over and over again. Hopefully Jared will run into Chris Christie, who put his dad away. Sometimes bad things do happen to bad people.
L85NJGT
Yeah…. start.
Not enough cash flow to keep the dump open.
Elie
My guess is that he feels more isolated in FLA. He wants to be closer to the East coast action — trying to be more relevant as he recedes further and further from relevancy — despite all the brave talk from the GQP. Also, the heat was making his fat ass leave more and more of a grease trail when he tried to golf or do anything remotely active. Like a pat of butter on a hot grittle. He looked terrible the last time I saw a picture of him (more terrible than usual anyway). I don’t think that the environment down there was helpful to him physically or mentally.
Mike in NC
“Unnamed Trump advisors” is a euphemism for sad sacks like Stephen Miller and Jason Miller, who are unemployable.
Joe Falco
Mar-a-Lago was not meant to be used as a permanent residence per the agreement between the local government and TFG anyway (but honoring agreements are for chumps which is probably a family motto of TFG’s). In any event, good; it would be one less vile and wretched thing in Florida for a time. Now if only DeSantis could be convinced to move as well.
craigie
Meanwhile, it’s unseasonably cold here in (formerly sunny) LA.
Elie
@Mike in NC:
Does anyone know who is down there with him holding up the fat fort? What a fun job! (NOT)
Matt McIrvin
I am getting really belligerently mad at people spreading bullshit about COVID and vaccines on Facebook. I have to restrain myself from getting into more fights.
TaMara (HFG)
Totally off-topic, but dayum.
“I had no idea there were so many syllables in the word ‘white’”
artem1s
although I’d be fine if TFG drifted off into nothingness, I kind of enjoy the thought of him having to hit the road like some traveling Amway salesman just one step ahead of the bill collectors and eviction notices.
How much you wanna bet he’s behind on his HOA fees and not ever going back.
L85NJGT
Isn’t it about time for another bankruptcy filing?
Soprano2
I was reading a thread on FB posted by someone I know about the new law in Oklahoma allowing people to run over people in their car if they’re protesting in a roadway. It’s one thing to know people feel this way, but it’s something else to read comment after comment saying “Yeah, glad they passed this law” and “Ford should put cowcatchers on the front of their trucks”. Some of these people cannot wait for an excuse to drive into a crowd of protesters! It was horrible.
Bill Arnold
I checked visually like 10 days ago and Trump’s 757 Trump Force One/N757AF/T-Bird was still parked at New York Stewart International Airport. Didn’t get a good enough look to verify that the port engine is still missing. The intended plan in late 2020 was to scrounge an engine good for a single flight to a repair place in Louisiana, and then have it fixed and maintenance done. It’s been sitting at that airport, outside next to the runway, for a while.
This (probably) means he’s too poor or cheap to keep his luxury plane flying. (He has a smaller aircraft.)
Time for another visual check, just to top up on schadenfreude.
Ken
Yes, but that’s from October through May.
laura
Is New Jersey big enough for two yooge greasy presidential hopefuls- Chris Crispy and tfg?
smith
He’s been surprisingly low-energy ever since his insurrection failed. If I were an ambitious would-be dictator, I’d be out there holding big rallies and firing up the rubes, if for no other reason than to take the focus off Biden’s accomplishments. I think we are eventually going to find out he has long covid, in addition to everything else that ails him.
Betty Cracker
@Elie: Someone writing in one of the political gossip rags — Politico or Axios, probably — opined that Florida has been great for Trump. Supposedly he’s stopped painting his face orange because he has an actual tan from golfing every single day and that the exercise from said golfing has helped him lose 20 pounds.
I am skeptical. For one thing, he drives the cart right up to the greens, so what exercise? I don’t think walking five feet from cart to ball, swinging, putting and kicking the ball toward the cup count as exercise.
Matt McIrvin
@Amir Khalid: One difference between Malaysia and Florida in the summer is that in the tropics, the daytime is only ever 12 hours long.
Anoniminous
@laura:
The real question: Is New Jersey big enough for Chris Christie after one more All You Can Eat turkey leg dinner special?
Elie
@Betty Cracker:
Naw, Betty. He looked terrible. I guess people see what they want, but if he looked so great, there would be many more pics of him than there are. He is lost and getting more lost. The GQP is going to have to move on as he slides further and further back. Does anyone know who is down there with him carrying out that plum assignment of “tending to the boss”?
Sister Golden Bear
I know I’ve been in Cassandra-mode about the current wave of anti-trans bills being considered, and passed, in 38 states.
But I did want to celebrate progress: Republicans are quietly giving up on some of the anti-trans/LGBTQ bills, and Republican governors have actually successfully vetoed a few of them.
Many thanks to the trans people and their allies who have fought hard for these victories. As well as to the Biden administration, which continues rolling by anti-trans policies of the TFG’s administration — today they rolled back a policy that enabled homeless shelters to deny services to trans people.
Sadly there’s still plenty more bills still out there. But it makes me slightly more hopeful. Slightly.
J.
Dear New Jersey, please claim that Trump is a New Jersey resident and go after him for tax evasion.
(I realize this probably won’t happen, but I can always hope. Still pissed that Palm Beach caved and allowed Trump to live at Mar-a-Lago when by his agreement with the city he wasn’t allowed to live there or claim it as his residence.)
And @BettyCracker, did you see that Michael Flynn bought a place in Englewood? I just pray that the rumors of Mike Pence buying a place on Sanibel are false.
Jim, Foolish Literalist
@Betty Cracker: given what a small man he is, there’s no better way to get an access chit than to have “trump looks great!” under your by-line. You could get lots of crazy-quote (to borrow from Kate McKinnon’s Kellywise) from that one phrase
kindness
Wait? An exclusive country club in Florida closes because it is hot in the summer?
schrodingers_cat
OT News: Parents got their second vax dose and I got an appointment for tomorrow so did husband ?
Found it via Twitter thanks to a Jackal’s suggestion!
Cameron
@laura: Wingnut sumo match! No, I wouldn’t watch.
trnc
@Joe Falco:
Preferably the same number of miles east.
jonas
Like others, color me surprised that Mar-A-Lago closes in the summer. Sure it’s hotter and more humid than Satan’s crotch down there in the summer, but I thought that’s what AC was for.
trollhattan
Monday I posted a link to a little dog “winning” a sprint relay, passing the lead runner with a few yards to go. We now have an I.D.: Holly the golden doodle. Her hooman was there to run a different heat.
Betty Cracker
@Elie: He sure looks awful in the few photos I’ve seen of him lately. Just terrible.
@Sister Golden Bear: The anti-trans bill in Florida supposedly died in the senate because the part-timers in the statehouse didn’t have time to cram in all the nasty authoritarian legislation they were hoping to pass in the session. I’m sure they’ll try to resurrect it when they think it’s politically advantageous, but good riddance for now anyway.
@J.: Ugh, I had not heard that. Man, we get the worst fucking people. Oh well. At least Limbaugh is still dead.
trollhattan
@jonas:
Guessing nobody golfs there in summer and the income from that and guest room stays plummets. Lord knows what a round must cost at the joint. But they do get that “locker room humor” Trump properties are known for.
Betty Cracker
@trollhattan: That was so cute. I’m glad the runners were good sports about it.
Leto
@trollhattan: that’s too cute!
trollhattan
@TaMara (HFG):
Nicely done, Rep. Jones.
Also, D.C. doesn’t have logging? No mining?!? Color [heh] me shocked.
HalfAssedHomesteader
We need to fix the “Trump has multiple properties” problem.
Cameron
I apologize if this has already been posted elsewhere, but I recently heard about an anti-mask “study” making the rounds that sounded pretty sketchy, so I did a little Googly and found that Snopes has shot this one and left it by the side of the road.
https://www.snopes.com/fact-check/stanford-nih-mask-study/
Doc Sardonic
@Amir Khalid: Some do come to Florida for the “hot” (November thru mid-April) weather, some hardy souls make it to Memorial Day Monday. Only foolish tourists and natives stay for June, July and August, although some natives decamp for North Cackelacky. That is why you have lots of “FloridaMan/Woman stories in the summer, the heat and humidity can make one crazy as a shithouse rat.
Betty Cracker
@jonas: I’m not really surprised since it’s a private, limited membership club for people who can afford to pay $200K a year for dues. My guess is most people with that much money don’t stick around for the summer.
Most places that serve the public in FL do seem to stay open year round, but lots scale back operations during off-season. Every golf course I know of offers summer discounts because its so damn hot.
texasdoc
I have to laugh about the move from Florida to New Jersey. Anyone who has ever been in New Jersey knows how hot and humid it is there in the summer. I’m not sure it’s any more comfortable for outdoor activities at all. I remember trying to play golf in the early morning at McGuire AFB, thinking it would be cooler, and ending up just drenched in sweat!
gvg
@PaulWartenberg: Actually it was originally a residence and he needed a zoning exemption to make it a club. Part of the approval was he wouldn’t also live there. What the should have done is revoke the club approval. Bet that would get his attention.
Old School
@Betty Cracker: While people with that much money may not stick around for the summer, I’m surprised that $200K per year for dues is really $200K for nine months.
I’m also surprised I never heard about Mar-a-Lago being closed for the summer during the four years TFG was in the White House.
trollhattan
@Cameron:
Good one. And loved this bit
Imagine high heels made of beef. (Has Gaga ever worn those?)
Almost Retired
It’s unseasonably cool here in Los Angeles, and the Summers are always very mild at nearby Trump National Golf Course in Palos Verdes. Fortunately for us, there’s no hotel or residence at Trump National for him to haunt temporarily as The Summer Ghoul – as if he could motorcade from LAX to PV without encountering angry villagers with torches and pitchforks.
gvg
@Amir Khalid:
No, they come for the warm weather in the cold seasons, not the hot hot hot weather of summer. I like it myself, but I am a native Floridian.
I don’t know anything about your tourists though. We do get plenty in the summer too because that is when kids are out of school and families can travel. Mar A Largo is for rich people who have multiple homes and live wherever is perfect at the moment, not middle class people.
eclare
Moderna #2 done! Thanks, Dolly.
Doc Sardonic
If you want to go to the beach on the Gulf side of Florida off season starts the Monday after Memorial Day from St. Pete down with exception of Sanibel/Captiva, no off season there. Historically Palm Beach has always shut down after Memorial Day due to migration cycles of the idle rich going back to the 1st Gilded Age.
eclare
@TaMara (HFG): That is awesome!
Cameron
@trollhattan: Thank God that I know how to get relief for my summer allergies now….
Bill Arnold
@Cameron:
Dup. trollhattan already quoted the best sentence.
rikyrah
This is an OT: anyone have a FireStick here?
What can you use it for?
geg6
Cackle all you want, but he’s still Florida Man. It’s his claimed permanent address. And he won’t want to step off the property in NJ, truly hostile territory. Most of New Jersey, NYC and Philly will spit on him if he does.
Betty Cracker
@Old School: I don’t think I ever heard about it being closed for the summer either, but I do remember the walking McDonald’s dumpster trying to make “Winter White House” a thing, and I don’t ever recall him visiting Disgraceland during the summer. Most people who can stay out of Florida from June-August do.
Mike in NC
We made the yuuuuge mistake of visiting Tampa for the 4th of July weekend about four years ago. It was pretty ghastly and we learned not to go in the summertime.
Ken
@trollhattan: According to these stats, the District of Columbia does fairly well despite its lack of extractive industries, with a higher GDP than 17 states.
I’m kind of surprised Nebraska ranks lower, I guess corn and ethanol aren’t all that profitable. And Alaska is surprisingly far down the list, wedged in between the Dakotas.
catclub
The difference is, that in places like NJ and NC, where it can get quite hot ( also minnesota!) , it occasionally cools down in the summer. That never happens in FL and Miss.
Old School
@rikyrah:
We use ours for streaming Amazon, Netflix, Disney+, etc. on the television.
What Have the Romans Ever Done for Us?
@Doc Sardonic: I can’t imagine how bad FL must be if North Cackalacky offers significant relief in the summer. I mean, I live in MD and it’s awful here from late June through early September. North Cackalacky is a full State South and has to be at least marginally worse. If FL is worse than that it must be awful. I guess the higher mountains of NC around Asheville might offer some relief but anywhere else it’s got to be pretty brutal. I grew up in Michigan…summer there is glorious.
geg6
@Amir Khalid:
Not in the summer!!! You are crazy if you waste vacation dollars in FL in the summer. You can only bear to run from one air conditioned building to the next. It’s not my kind of place any time of year but summer is truly unbearable.
JoyceH
@Betty Cracker:
Golf isn’t a sport, it’s a social activity. As for it being exercise, wellllll… The only president who golfed more than Trump was Taft, and he was also famously our fattest president. And that was back before the invention of those sissy golf carts, so Taft was hoofing it through the entire course. Lose weight golfing? I don’t THINK so!
But what baffles me is Trump’s recent aversion for that dictator-chic gold-plated skybox of his in Manhattan. He ran his whole dang transition from there and since being inaugurated, I think he’s only been back there once. He wouldn’t even stay there when he was in NYC for events; I think he stayed at Bedminster and motorcaded or choppered in.
Halteclere
Obviously the GQP don’t read history. Who would of thought that setting up the 2nd white supremacist government in the south would result in them fleeing northward a second time when summer started!
Low Key Swagger
@rikyrah: Not long ago, you could fiddle with them and they would turn into android type boxes (seriously over-simplifying here) and use them for all kinds of free streaming. I had an android box but haven’t even switched it on in years.
catclub
Vaccination appointments are going with no takers in mississippi.
State is not smart enough to encourage vaccine tourism.
Baud
Via Reddit
Ken
Weird Al’s “Perform This Way” has a skirt made of real skirt steak, does that count?
A Ghost To Most
Florida IS Hell. New Jersey is just a satellite office.
zhena gogolia
@Betty Cracker:
Did this person get a look at him on Hannity the other night? He looks awful.
rp
@rikyrah: firestick make fire.
karen marie
@trollhattan: What a little shit, trying to trip the runner right at the finish line! Typical doge.
Ruckus
@Elie:
He’s not helpful to himself physically or mentally.
geg6
@JoyceH:
Protesters. NYC truly hates his guts.
Mary G
@JoyceH: @geg6: Also, too, probably ducking a subpoena from one of the many NY state investigations going on.
karen marie
@trollhattan: Closing for the summer gives them plenty of opportunity to not properly maintain the kitchen.
WaterGirl
@TaMara (HFG):
I listened to Tom Cotton THREE TIMES, just so I could hear Rep. Jones say that three times.
Ruckus
@jonas:
AC costs money to install and to use. Do the math.
eclare
@WaterGirl: I also listened several times, it was so good!
WaterGirl
@Sister Golden Bear:
Seriously? In-fucking-believable. What’s next, hospitals don’t have to treat trans people?
Jim, Foolish Literalist
@geg6: and now he couldn’t get the streets blocked, he’d have to sit in traffic while people flipped him off, just for starters
SiubhanDuinne
@eclare:
Congratulations!
WaterGirl
@SiubhanDuinne: How are you feeling today? Besides elated at your accomplishment, I mean. :-)
Ruckus
@Ken:
The cost of growing corn just about equal the income. And most ethanol use in the US is added to gasoline.
SiubhanDuinne
@WaterGirl:
Nothing major. Knockout fatigue (I’ve slept an aggregate of 16 of the last 24 hours) and a tender, slightly feverish arm around the injection site. All much easier than I anticipated. I was, and continue to be, beyond grateful for your and everyjackal’s encouragement.
Ruckus
@JoyceH:
shitforbrains has a real adversion to being arrested and having to crap in a toilet that isn’t gold spray painted. That’s likely the reason he doesn’t stay in NY. Or even travel in it. He’s dumb, but he’s not that dumb. Very, very close though.
Low Key Swagger
@Ruckus: Which is hell on small engines. I am fortunate to have access to gasoline with no ethanol. Haven’t had issues with any of my small engines (I own a TON) in years.
mrmoshpotato
@PaulWartenberg:
Yup. Chickenshit, bitchass motherfuckers. Every last one of them.
“WWWAAAAAAAAAHHHHH! IT’S TOO HOT IN SOUTHERN FLORIDA IN SUMMER! WWWAAAAAAAAAHHHHH!”
Is the Kremlin’s orange bitch afraid his face will melt off, or his fat, orange, fascist ass will get heatstroke?
Jim, Foolish Literalist
@Baud:
eclare
@SiubhanDuinne: Thank you! You too!
WaterGirl
@SiubhanDuinne: All in all, that doesn’t sound too bad. We all love you, of course we are going to be encouraging!
TinRoofRusted
@TaMara (HFG): That’s my Rep! I am so thrilled with him. When I was waiting in line in November to vote he stopped by my polling place. I got a selfie with him and sent it to my daughter. She was jealous.
Cmorenc
@Betty Cracker:
…which is why TFG never plays golf anywhere but trump-owned courses. No other golf clubs/ courses would tolerate his boorish behavior driving his cart right onto the apron up to the very edge of the green or barging right through any group ahead of him
well there is also the fact that he doesnt have to pay green or cart fees at his own courses but the ability to behave like a total boor with no onel able to challenge him is a big part.of why he sticks to trump courses
randy khan
@Anoniminous:
There are lot of perfectly good people – people on our side, since New Jersey is so blue – who are between any conceivable location where landfall would occur and his accursed golf club. Otherwise I’d be totally in favor of this.
Sister Golden Bear
@WaterGirl: TFG’s administration did enacted policies that LGBTQ folks can be denied medical care. Because religious freedom. Thankfully, it was one of the first things Biden repealed.
A number of the bills also ban — or even criminalize — providing trans-related health care to trans kids. I’m blanking on the state at the moment, but four trans kids in that state attempted suicide the week after it passed because they could no longer get the care they needed. These sorts of bills will kill people.
Kay
@What Have the Romans Ever Done for Us?:
It is. Michigan is the best summer. When the water warms up in late summer and there are those long days- it’s the best.
Chief Oshkosh
@Soprano2: Just remind them that the forced-birther brigade are also “protesters”, too, and that those flabby-assessed white people have been blocking traffic for the last 40-odd years.
Lots of targets in the buckle of the Bible belt.
Jim, Foolish Literalist
@Cmorenc: and I imagine they’re still billing his Secret Service detail
Betty Cracker
@Cmorenc: I’m sure those are the main reasons, but I also suspect playing the same damn courses all the time makes Trump SEEM like a better golfer than he actually is, and that’s probably part of the attraction. I am a really shitty golfer and hardly play at all these days, but even I can’t imagine playing as often as he does and never wanting to vary the experience with a different course occasionally. It would get boring!
TaMara (HFG)
@TinRoofRusted: That is sooo cool.
eclare
@TinRoofRusted: That comment was brilliant! I hope there are many more to come.
WaterGirl
@Sister Golden Bear: I’ll be right back. I need to go bang my head against wall for a minute.
TinRoofRusted
@eclare: I am sure there will be. He actually got in a bit of trouble yesterday because he called GOP objections to DC statehood racist trash after the reference to Senator Cottons remarks. Trouble being faux Republican outrage. I however 100% approve of that statement because it is true.
WereBear
@Cmorenc: he cheats. Constantly. The souped up cart is to get ahead enough to move the ball.
ColoradoGuy
I’ve read TFG actually drives his golf cart ON the green, which get you banned and sent a hefty bill for repairing the green (the cart would leave ruts which would ruin the green). Same as TFG wanting many tanks in DC for 4th of July, which would ruin the roads, but he doesn’t care about ruining things. Ruining things is basically his brand, and the brand of the GQP. It’s what they do.
japa21
@Kay:
True, those two days are magnificent.
Soprano2
@Sister Golden Bear: Arkansas is the state you’re thinking of. It’s horrible that their state legislature thinks they know better than parents and doctors what treatment kids should have.
karen marie
@Cmorenc: He drives the cart onto the green at Bedminster
As for why he only plays at his own clubs, why would he play anywhere else, especially now when he can gouge the government for cart rental fees for his Secret Service detail?
Doug R
@Amir Khalid: I know summer is primetime in California. One year in August it was 90s at Universal, over 100 at Magic Mountain and 90s at San Diego WAP.
cain
@geg6:
That sounds like Qatar. Evrryone was doing that there ..
dopey-o
That freeze-dried adrenochrome he’s getting from the Far East is not nearly as good as the fresh stuff Steven Miller was couriering in from the kids in cages in Texas.
The whole point of Stop the Steal was to keep the supply coming. Trump pocketed over $200 million, but most of that will wind up in someone else’s bank account. Kim Jun Un? Xi? Duterte?
If the Jan 6 antifa insurrection had succeeded, Trump would still be storming around the White House like a deranged Easter Bunny.
Super Dave
@Betty Cracker: My Good Lady, you have a way with words… always LOVE reading your descriptions of the Orange Shitgibbon… I wish I was as inventive and imaginative as you! Keep up the good words and work!!!
GLEN TOMKINS
I’ve had to adapt to the sad reality that the US doesn’t seem to have an extradition treaty with Florida. With news of this proposed move to Bedminster, a hopeful spirit turns to the logical question of whether we have extradition with New Jersey.
vasiliy
@Baud: “The twice-impeached one-term president” Are you referring to the 45th EX-president?