Report: Fee To Join Mar-A-Lago Club Doubled To $200k After Trump Win

President-elect Donald Trump, center, accompanied by Trump Chief of Staff Reince Priebus, right, and retired Gen. Michael Flynn, a senior adviser to Trump, left, speaks to members of the media at Mar-a-Lago, in Palm ... President-elect Donald Trump, center, accompanied by Trump Chief of Staff Reince Priebus, right, and retired Gen. Michael Flynn, a senior adviser to Trump, left, speaks to members of the media at Mar-a-Lago, in Palm Beach, Fla., Wednesday, Dec. 21, 2016. (AP Photo/Andrew Harnik) MORE LESS
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President Donald Trump’s Mar-a-Lago club raised its initiation fee from $100,000 to $200,000 nearly two months after his electoral victory, according to a CNBC report published Tuesday.

Unnamed sources close to Trump’s resort told CNBC that the one-time fee hike took place on Jan. 1, and that the resort had been considering increasing the fee for “some time.”

Club members must also pay a $14,000 annual fee, plus taxes.

Critics allege that the Trump Organization is taking advantage of the presidency for monetary gain. Trump has put his assets, including Mar-a-Lago, into a trust controlled by his two adult sons, although details of that trust are still hazy. Earlier Wednesday, Trump Hotels CEO Eric Danziger proposed a massive expansion of that company’s footprint in the U.S.

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  1. Chaffetz: Totally legal.
    Gowdy: Commendable.

  2. It makes him smart!

  3. I think it is OK, separates the sheeps from the goats…

  4. The club is 1 foot above sea level on the Florida coast. Long term, sounds like a pretty bad investment.

  5. Trump: Since we are firing every undocumented worker in my hotel, we have to increase the fee. Its expensive to hire American workers.

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