Sinkhole Opens Up In Front Of Mar-A-Lago

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A sinkhole opened Monday in front of President Donald Trump’s Mar-a-Lago estate in Palm Beach, Florida, and the reaction was full of bad jokes.

The 4′ by 4′ sinkhole “appears to be in the vicinity of the newly installed water main,” according to an alert on the town’s website asking drivers to “please pay attention to signs.”

Observers on Twitter joked that the sudden subsidence might be another kind of sign entirely.

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  1. Would someone please add an image of Spicey emerging from the sinkhole.

  2. In the old days, ‘The National Enquirer’ would have been all over this. Now they are part of the propaganda machinery. I’d deplore the loss of journalistic ethics but…

  3. “I love the smell of brimstone in the morning.”

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