Posted on 04/20/2018 2:34:34 PM PDT by simpson96
PALM BEACH, FLORIDA – U.S. first lady Melania Trump might be one of the few not overly awed by a marble-bedecked and gold-plated Gilded Age mansion that she and counterpart Akie Abe toured Wednesday.
While U.S. President Donald Trump and Prime Minister Shinzo Abe golfed at the president’s nearby country club, their wives visited Whitehall — the 75-room, 100,000-square-foot (9,290-square-meter) waterside retreat that oil and railroad tycoon Henry Flagler built as a wedding present for his third wife, Mary Lily Kenan Flagler. The Flaglers wintered there beginning in 1902, and it is now the centerpiece of the Flagler Museum.
Arriving in a motorcade from Mar-a-Lago, the president’s own gold-plated mansion 3 miles (5 kilometers) away, Melania Trump and Akie Abe were greeted by Flagler’s great grandson William Matthews and museum Executive Director Erin Manning, who led them through a tour of the home historians say cost $4 million ($110 million today) to build.
Unlike their husbands — who have a jovial, golf buddy relationship — the first ladies smiled politely, quietly asked Manning questions and walked formally during the parts of their tour visible to the U.S. and Japanese press. Melania wore an emerald green dress and designer heels, while Akie wore a dark dress with a floral print. During the Abes’ visit to Florida last year, the first ladies visited a Japanese garden. They did not address reporters Wednesday.
Manning showed the first ladies the private railroad car Henry Flagler used to travel his Florida East Coast Railway, the line that opened up South Florida as it stretched from Jacksonville to Key West.
(snip) Standing beneath a domed ceiling decorated with a reproduction of Guido Reni’s “Aurora” and statues of cherubs, Trump and Abe listened as a pipe organist performed Verdi.
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Every time I see Melania in her capacity as first lady, I thank god the wicked witch of the Clinton Crime Syndicate lost.
Just. Wow.
And the MSM headline will be “Trump Golfs Again”
Died under mysterious circumstances -- to found a dynasty.
Public museum.
Been there and the history of Henry Flagler is worth reading.
A real S.O.B.
I am dying here over that Green! (HEART!!)
Every time I see Melania in her capacity as first lady, I thank god the wicked witch of the Clinton Crime Syndicate lost.
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The wicked witch will be glaring at Melania during the Barbara Bush funeral.
It’s a lovely museum to visit.....
I think Flagler’s third wife went mad....
...but Henry Flagler did much for Florida’s welfare and history...
....there’s a lovely college in St Augustine that was once the Flagler hotel
Florida owes a lot to this visionary man....
His first wife.....& daughter and baby who died at sea, are interred at the Presbyterian Church in St Augustine
Good. I hope her evil envy destroys her and she melts away as any evil witch should.
Both ladies are lovely.
The Silicon Valley tech giants operate like Flagler did. He’d fight right in with that crowd of pirates.
I could say something about the picture of that guy playing with his organ...but I won’t.
Yes, can you imagine “First Gentleman” (ahem!) Bill Clinton escorting foreign first ladies on an official visit?
He’d be pinching their backsides when Hillary isn’t looking.
OTOH, looking at pixs of the the former FLOTUS or the pixs of the "almost-but-cheated-President" made my heart almost shut down from vomit overload...
Lovely Ladies. Melania is so gorgeous.
Both ladies are lovely.
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Yes, they are. And even the styles are representative of their countries. Beautiful. Just beautiful.
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