Within the Mar-A-Lago complex, he should be bug-free. But anytime he calls outside, he’s vulnerable to bugging by our own intelligence agencies because he’s then on public networks.
It was great to see President Xi entertained at Mar-a-Lago. And the Chinese were probably more comfortable there — and probably they were able to accomodate more visitors than the White House would permit.
Trump planned Mar-A-Lago as his potential Camp David decades years ago as people were asking him if he might run for President. The guy is a fantastic visionary and planner.
And I wouldn’t be surprised if two or three years ago, Ivanka had her kid studying Chinese so some sort of tribute for the Chinese.
Diplomacy is nothing more than a business Art of the Deal raised to a global scale where things like import tariff threats and weapons of mass destruction are added to the mix.
What a great post! Here I was all those years in NYC thinking that Trump was doing nothing more than building and occasionally sending out volleys from Trump Tower about crime and other indignities. And he was probably doing all the planning you suggest. Amazing.
My daughter took mandarin for a couple years at her snooty private school. it was very trendy.