FLORIDA/GOVERNMENT/TRUMP AS PRESIDENT: “With the government open again, President Donald Trump at last headed Friday [2-1-19] for a weekend at his happy place: his Mar-a-Lago private club on Florida’s southeastern coast. Trump typically spends many winter weekends at the Palm Beach estate, golfing at another nearby private club he owns and dining on an outdoor terrace at Mar-a-Lago, where he catches up with friends and club members. But that routine was interrupted by the partial government shutdown, which ended a week ago after a record 35 days. The president curtailed his travel during the shutdown, dropping Mar-a-Lago from the itinerary as he sought to avoid travel that would not play well when one-fourth of the government was closed and hundreds of thousands of federal workers had to make do without pay.”
–Associated Press, “With Government Open Again, Trump Heads for Florida,” The New York Times online, February 1, 2019