Posted on 12/31/2017 7:28:11 PM PST by mdittmar
Ticket prices are up for this year’s glitzy New Year’s Eve bash, but concerns remain over the fusion of Trump’s public responsibilities and private interests.
Donald Trump is throwing a lavish party tonight, as he does every New Year, at Mar-a-Lago, his private club in Palm Beach, Florida.
But this year, with the host also serving as US president, he faces questions over the conflation of his business interests and his official responsibilities.
At $600 for dues-paying members and $750 for their guests, ticket prices are up from last year, when, as president-elect, Trump charged $525 for members and $575 for guests.
Last year’s party was a capacity sell-out, and included a red carpet arrival, a cocktail hour followed by dinner – last year, ‘Mr Trump’s wedge salad’, wild mushroom & Swiss chard ravioli, sliced tenderloin and pan-seared sea bass, followed by baked Alaska.
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No, the slightly increased ticket prices netting a few thousand dollars are far, far worse than the millions of dollars the Clintons got for the Uranium One sale, just for starters.
The cash flow to Trump enterprises is snowflakes to the mountains.
Fake.
News.
He is the first POTUS that I know of, that donates his Presidential Salary back to the nation. And he owned Mar-a-Lago long before he was president.
I have NO problem with that.
FR needs that as a new category.
I think they’re confusing Trump Inc with President Trump
Clintbilly and Zero left the White House a lot richer than they went into it.
He has to charge something to keep the riff raff out.
So did Harry Reid.
And Mitch McConnel. How does a lifelong “public servant” accumulate $25MM in wealth on that salary?
I thought they were mutated sea bass? At least President Trump isn’t serving shark with frickin laser-beams attached to their heads.
and trump will leave far less wealthy
Go Donald! Thank you from a Grateful Nation!
The US moved rapidly into banana republic territory under Obama with bottomless corruption everywhere you looked and they worry about pennies. Idiots.
Trump probably gives the money to charity!
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