TRUMP AS PRESIDENT: “President Donald Trump will spend much of the next two months outside of Washington, untethered from the strictures of daily White House life as he weighs a shakeup of his administration and faces new developments in the Russia investigation after Tuesday’s [11-6-18] election. Trump delights in decamping to his properties, especially Mar-a-Lago, his private Florida club, where he is expected to spend the upcoming holidays. The trips give him more time to bounce ideas off outside allies and friends without the regimentation of even his loose daily White House schedule, which he increasingly bristles against. But White House aides and outside advisers acknowledge privately that Trump is often more impulsive when he’s on the road and out of sight of senior staffers…Between now and January, Trump will spend little time at the White House, according to aides. In addition to traveling to Paris later this week and to Argentina at the end of the month for the G-20 summit, Trump is expected to pencil in lengthy holiday visits to Mar-a-Lago. His schedule is still being ironed out, and the exact dates of his Mar-a-Lago visits are unclear, aides said.”
–Andrew Restuccia, “Trump to ditch Washington restraints as 2018 closes,” Politico, November 8, 2018 2:15 pm