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Trump supporters cheer motorcade as he touches down in Palm Beach for Thanksgiving w/ family
The London Daily Mail ^ | November 22, 2016 | James Wilkinson

Posted on 11/22/2016 7:00:24 PM PST by 2ndDivisionVet

Donald Trump's motorcade was cheered on by supporters Tuesday night as it carried the President-elect and his family to his Mar-a-Lago estate for their annual Thanksgiving celebration there.

He had been seen around 7pm touching down in Palm Beach International Airport, where Melania and youngest son Barron were also spotted stepping down onto the tarmac. RNC chairman Reince Priebus is also making his way to the feast, according to Trump's press pool.

Southern Boulevard was shut down, along with the I-95 and a number of other intersecting roads, while the motorcade made its way to Trump's estate, according to Palm Beach Post.

Former Secret Service agents Dan Bongino and Arnette Heintze said Trump's neighbors should expect some security-related disruptions now that he is President-elect, such as the possible construction of a helipad, but it shouldn't be too stressful.

'Mar-a-Lago is a Secret Service agent's dream to secure. It is everything you would want,' Bongino said. 'You have limited access and a really exclusive enclave where people who don't live down there will generally stick out pretty quickly.'

Mar-a-Lago's members, who pay a $100,000 initiation fee and $14,000 annual dues, can expect to walk through metal detectors and have their cars and luggage sniffed by bomb dogs when Trump is there....

(Excerpt) Read more at dailymail.co.uk ...


TOPICS: Local News; Politics; Religion
KEYWORDS: fl2016; florida; thanksgiving; trump; trumptransition
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To: 2ndDivisionVet

Still drawing crowds- any Stateside stories on it or is the UK the only ones reporting it?


41 posted on 11/23/2016 4:16:40 AM PST by trebb (Where in the the hell has my country gone?)
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To: 2ndDivisionVet

It’s the secret service detail dream accommodations.


42 posted on 11/23/2016 4:23:44 AM PST by shotgun
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