NYT: Trump May Split Time Between White House And Trump Tower

Donald Trump is awarded the AAA Five-Diamond Award for his Trump International Hotel & Tower in New York City. March 31, 2011. Credit: Dennis Van Tine/MediaPunch/IPX
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Donald Trump is considering splitting his time between the White House and his apartment in Trump Tower, as well as his Florida estate Mar-A-Lago, according to a New York Times report.

Trump is known to like sleeping in his apartment, and he often flew back to New York at night while on the campaign trail so that he could sleep in his own bed.

From the New York Times:

Mr. Trump, a homebody who often flew several hours late at night during the campaign so he could wake up in his own bed in Trump Tower, is talking with his advisers about how many nights a week he will spend in the White House. He has told them he would like to do what he is used to, which is spending time in New York when he can.

The future first lady, Melania Trump, expects to move to Washington. But the couple’s 10-year-old son, Barron, is midway through a school year in New York, and it is unclear when the move would happen.

Trump’s advisors told the Times that the President-elect “might spend most of the week in Washington, much like members of Congress, and return to Trump Tower or his golf course in Bedminster, N.J., or his Mar-a-Lago estate in Palm Beach on weekends.”

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  1. Among other things, the SS will spend $$$$$$$$$$$ for four different vacation houses. Shrub spent a record number of days on vacation, so it’s nice to see the Republican work ethic is alive and well. Make vacations great Again! On our dime.

  2. How much will this cost the US taxpayers in secret service travel and protection? I fully expect to hear all the assholes on the GOP side of the aisle who complained about Obama vacations and trips to show their true outrage at this wanton expense of taxpayer money, let alone lack of engagement with the job he represented he was committed to perform.

    He has got to be fucking kidding. He is gonna mail it in.

  3. Avatar for sjk sjk says:

    Part time President, already?
    He’s gonna pull a Palin in 2 years and quit.

  4. Avatar for pshah pshah says:

    Hey, why not just move the White House, Capitol Building, the Supreme Court and all the other bureaucracies back to NYC so his Highness can sleep in his own bed?

    It’ll be like 1790 all over again…when only white male voters counted.

  5. Wait till he has to spend all that time in his own bed listening to thousands of protesters down at the street level chanting against him. He will tweet at 3AM how unfair it all is.

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