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When President-elect Donald J. Trump rang in the new year this weekend, he did it in Gatsby-like opulence, joined by the actor Sylvester Stallone, the gossip page fixture Fabio, and a crowd of wealthy developers reveling under the swaying palm trees at Mr. Trump’s Mar-a-Lago resort in Palm Beach.... ..Mr. Trump’s 118-room private club, is likely to eclipse them all as the 45th president’s winter White House. And that was always the intention of Marjorie Meriweather Post, the cereal heiress and the property’s original owner, who left Mar-a-Lago to the federal government when she died in 1973, hoping it would...

President Obama and the First Family spent 11 days, 10 nights on Oahu. Now they're packing up for their return flight home to the winter weather of Washington, D.C. The president is spending his final hours on Oahu soaking up the sun outdoors. And ever since he's arrived, he's managed to fit in trips to the beach, a movie, even a stop for shave ice. Scott Miscovich has seen it all, living on the same street as what has been coined the First Family's Winter White House. "Been interesting, we've had protestors, a lot of people coming just to observe,"...

Barack Obama will be spending ten days over Christmas and New Year's at a $8.9 million estate in Hawaii at a rate of at least $4000 per night, according to ABC News. Obama spent last Christmas there as well when he was president-elect.As the American people are still caught in the grips of the recession with unemployment running from 10% to 16% and the federal budget blown out with Obama's massive deficit spending, Obama is living like a king with no criticism from the mainstream media.ABC describes the estate with no mention of the incongruence of Obama's extravagance with the...