[Caixin.com] (Intern reporter Wang Zili) It is not uncommon in the history that the President of the United States has his own "going palace". The endless Crawford Farm in the heart of Texas is a private home for the Bush family and the first choice for foreign guests during George W. Bush's presidency. Obama, who has just removed the president’s burden, often wears shorts and slippers to enjoy the holiday in front of a private villa on the beach in Hawaii.
However, when it comes to the current US President Trump's "Mar-a-Lago" in Palm Beach, Florida, these are bleak. Since Trump won the election, this luxury mansion facing the sea has begun to be exposed more and more in front of the spotlight of the media.
The Haihu Manor is bathed in the bright sunshine of Florida all the year round. The water of the swimming pool is sparkling, the green palm trees are rustling in the warm air, and even the black SUV of the Secret Service parked in front of the door is also illuminated by the sun. Stinging.
This Mediterranean-style mansion covers an area of ​​80,000 square meters and has 126 rooms inside. The entire property cost $8 million. The house itself was built from stone from Italy, with 36,000 antique tiles from Spain and tiles on the roof from Cuba.
After Trump became president, the refuge from Washington, DC, has increasingly become a sub-center of the US government, crowned the "Southern White House" or "Winter White House" .
The President of the United States is keen on "manor diplomacy". The Haihu Manor is not only a place where Trump flees the pressure of Washington, indulges, but also an important place for him to conclude friendship with foreign leaders. In February 2017, Trump spent the weekend with Japanese Prime Minister Shinzo Abe and his wife at Haihu Manor. From April 6 to 7, 2017, Chinese President Xi Jinping will also meet with Trump here.
Although Haihu Manor is just one of Trump's many holiday estates, its position in Trump's mind is more important than the Trump Tower in downtown New York. The person familiar with Trump said that this manor is his "Shangri-La".
Trump's biographer and presidential historian Douglas Brinkley is one of the guests at the Sea Lake Manor. In an interview with The New York Times, he said the mystery: "This is an environment that he (Trump) can control. I have observed how he handles government affairs here - he is on his own site. Comfortable, so relaxed."
Past and present of the "Winter Palace"
Haihu Manor was originally built for entertainment. When The Times first reported on the mansion, it depicts the luxurious parties and ballet performances there. Still, making it the "winter" of the President of the United States is a plan that long before Trump became president.
In Spanish, “Mar-a-Lago†literally means “Sea to Lakeâ€. The manor was built in 1927 by the Marjorie Merriweather Post, the heir to General Foods and socialite.
After Post's death in 1973, he gave the Haihu Manor to the US government. Her original intention was to make this luxurious and stylish manor the president's winter resort and the resting place for visiting VIPs. But the US government at that time returned the estate to the Post family in order to reduce maintenance costs.
According to the New York Times, in July 1974, the then US President Nixon conducted an undisclosed visit to Haihu Manor in a helicopter to "determine its potential." In this sunny seaside manor, he strolled for a full 31 minutes.
In 1985, Trump bought the property of Haihu Manor for $8 million and completed the renovation of the manor in 1995. Based on the original layout, he added a 1900 square meter dance floor, 5 clay tennis courts and a beachfront pool to the manor.
According to Time magazine (TIME), Trump, who was a wealthy businessman in New York at the time, was not popular in Palm Beach. However, as other buyers' bids failed, Trump bought the surrounding land and threatened to start construction to block the view of the manor. He eventually won the business.
In his book The Art of the Deal, Trump described: "This is almost the paradise I want."
In the 1990s, Trump's business was on the verge of bankruptcy. In order to solve the financial crisis, he plans to divide Haihu Manor into smaller villas, but it is opposed by the local government.
So he began to challenge the local social order: Haihu Manor became a private club and declared to be open to all "those who have access to the threshold" - whether white, African American, Jewish, etc. Ethnic minorities accepted by the upper class.
As in politics in the future, Trump has always been used to smashing traditions and not following the rules. He performed concerts at the estate for American singers Céline Dion and Billy Joel, thus violating local noise regulations. He also raised the American flag with an oversized flagpole in the manor's compound, for which he had to pay a six-figure ticket.
In recent years, Trump has played three lawsuits with the Palm Beach County Government. The reason is that the noisy jets often fly over the sea and lake estates, leaving Trump uncomfortable. This private home is just 4 km from the main airport runway at West Palm Beach.
In this dispute with the airport, Trump finally reached the upper hand until he became president. To ensure the safety of the president, the US Secret Service and the Federal Aviation Administration (FAA) announced that when Trump visited, Haihu Manor would become a temporary “no-fly zone†within 10 miles (about 16 kilometers); Roads near the manor will also be blocked and patrolled by the US Coast Guard and Secret Service guards.
President's "temporary war room"
On February 11, when Trump and Japanese Prime Minister Shinzo Abe had dinner at Haihu Manor, an unexpected diplomatic crisis suddenly occurred: North Korea fired a ballistic missile into the Sea of ​​Japan. In this private estate far from the "heart" of American power, Trump quickly learned about the developments from the behind-the-scenes briefing, and talked with Washington officials on the spot, and then held a press conference with Abe.
This historic scene seems to be enough to show how the Haihu Manor will influence the American politics under Trump in an unusual way.
The president is dealing with government affairs where the rich are spending the weekend, which is unprecedented in the United States. The private compound in Kennebunkport, Maine, USA, was once known as the "summer palace" of former President George W. Bush. But Trump’s “Winter Palace†in Palm Beach is unique because it sets a precedent for guests to pay for the industry under the president’s name.
The high-end for-profit club of Haihu Manor has never been easily accessible to the general public. According to Time magazine, its admission fee is as high as $200,000, which does not include the annual fee of $14,000 or the minimum annual meal and alcohol consumption. The latter has always been the main source of income for the club. The latest financial report shows that in 2015 Trump made a total of 30 million US dollars from Haihu Manor.
According to a membership list obtained by The New York Times, nearly 500 paid members of Haihu Manor include dozens of real estate developers, Wall Street financiers and other corporate executives. Most of them get membership before Trump participates in the general election. Although the estate is still absorbing new members, the number of places is very limited.
Obviously, at Haihu Manor, Trump’s presidency is easily unclear with his social circle. For many club members, the greatest benefit of being accepted by the estate is the ability to get close to the core of American political power. This means that in Trump's already criticized "conflict of interest", it adds a negligible sum.
The New York Times reported that at the Thanksgiving feast held at Haihu Manor in November 2016, Trump asked the guests about the positions of the new vacant Secretary of State and the US Ambassador to Ireland. opinion. A video released on the US POLITICO website shows that after being elected president, Trump said at the club member reception that "you are my partner" and invited them to visit his interview with the cabinet.
White House spokesperson Hope Hicks responded in a written statement that Trump has never and will not discuss policy with club members in the future, and that federal law regarding conflict of interest does not apply to the president. Trump's son, Eric Trump, said that the business elites who often enter and leave the club have a lot of connections to the government, and speculate that the Trump family is "unfair" by offering opportunities to approach the president.
In any case, in the luxury mansion known as "one of the most successful private clubs in the world", the boundaries between the president's business, leisure life and government affairs are indeed very vague - it is like being the president Rump himself is also difficult to get rid of the influence of past roles such as “real estate tycoon†and “reality show performerâ€.
Since entering the White House, Trump has visited Haihu Manor five times. Next, the first meeting between the heads of state of China and the United States after Trump took office will be held here. By then, the picturesque seaside manor under the president’s name will once again receive the baptism of the global spotlight. 
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