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.
(Excerpt) Read more at japantimes.co.jp ...
Right on!
How in the heck does she walk in those shoes? LOL! FLOTUS doe shave the most lovely smile. So much better than the perpetual scowl of our former FLOTUS.
Party On, Wayne! Party On, Garth! LOL!
I’m dating myself, but I saw that movie SIX times when it was in theaters, dragging friends who had no interest in it and then they thanked me later.
My BFF and I STILL want our own Community Access Late Night TV show. We write scripts for it all the time.
*SMIRK*
Absolutely agree. We are so gracefully represented by our lovely Melania. Such wonderful poise and natural elegance.
I could not be more proud of our First Lady.
Indeed they are lovely.
More like dodging a cannon ball.
Our lovely FLOTUS does not walk, she floats. She really does.
You can master heels like that with enough practice. You just get used to it. That just look so darned gorgeous on our Melania.
OMG who made that MooMoo, Omar the Tent Maker?
Click Pictures
Thanks for the links!
That’s all well and good.
Two guys were given the rights to the east and west coast of Florida.
H.B. Plant the west coast and Henry Flagler the east coast.
Each were to build a railroad along their coasts.
Each’s history is worth the time to study.
Did you ever back up your post regarding POTUS being disinvited to Barb Bush’s service?
Just curious.
TIA.
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