Posted on 01/20/2017 4:33:57 AM PST by Hojczyk
Immediately branded by the notoriously insular locals as a vulgar arriviste, he acquired the late cereal heiress Marjorie Merriweather Posts landmark Mar-a-Lago estate and the desirable social standing it bestowed in 1985, only to spend the following three decades suing the town over and over again when it got in his way. The squabbles between Trump and the Palm Beach establishment became the stuff of tabloid legend.
My, how times have changed. Or at least, Trumps place in the world has.
With Trumps imminent presidential inauguration, Palm Beach has become far more tolerant of its most famous, and now most powerful, part-time resident. One might even be tempted to say the town has gasp! wrapped Trump in its collective embrace.
Thats going too far, chuckled Carey ODonnell, a public relations and advertising exec and longtime resident who now lives on one of the three bridges leading to barrier-island Palm Beach. (The uninitiated often mistakenly identify Mar-a-Lago as being on the decidedly less upscale mainland city of West Palm Beach.)
Trumps relationship with Palm Beach has evolved over time, ODonnell conceded. But certainly now theres a drastic change. You wouldnt call it an evolution anymore; now its a drastic shift out of necessity, of course.
And so, good luck finding a Palm Beacher today who offers something other than praise for the president-elect.
Before the election, youd ask people, Are you for Donald Trump? Theyd say, Im not, said Laurence Leamer, a veteran nonfiction author who exposed the foibles of Palm Beach society in his 2009 book Madness Under the Palms and was promptly shunned. And now theyre like, I am!
(Excerpt) Read more at miamiherald.com ...
It is a good article....a little history..
The reporter must have taken Valium
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