Analysis: A quick reminder that the president regularly spends the weekend hobnobbing privately with rich clients
President Trump arrives aboard Marine One on the South Lawn of the White House. By Philip Bump Philip Bump National correspondent focused largely on the numbers behind politics Email Bio Follow March 11 at 12:44 PM President Trump returned to the White House from his private resort in Florida on Sunday. In total, Trump has spent all or part of 42 weekend days at the resort since his inauguration — time during which his schedule is almost always kept completely private.
It’s obviously useful for Mar-a-Lago to have Trump drop in at events on occasion — meaning that it’s indirectly valuable to Trump as well, given that he still owns the place. But it’s not Trump’s attendance at public fundraisers that really ought to raise eyebrows. It’s the rest of the time he spends chatting up whoever happens to be there. The time he spends greeting and schmoozing with the unidentified people who have paid him money to access the “winter White House.
This is precisely why open-government advocates push for information about who’s visiting the president and why. There are certainly meetings that the president takes which should not be made public. But meetings in which someone is making a pitch or seeking to leverage Trump’s power are ones where public accountability makes sense. Especially when, as in Yang’s case, that person has apparent ties to the Chinese government.
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