On days when former President Trump is getting restless, Molly Michael, an aide who was his assistant in the White House, sometimes asks his friends to call him "to boost his spirits with positive affirmations," The Washington Post reports in a deep dive about his aimless post-presidency.
- A longtime Trump confidant said Trump's effort to recreate White House trappings at Mar-a-Lago is "sad": "It's like a Barbie Dreamhouse." At one point in early 2021, The Post reveals, "Trump asked a team of advisers if he could summon a press pool ... for an event at his Florida club. But there was no pool on call because he was no longer president."A former aide said: "We had to explain to him that he didn’t have a group standing around waiting for him anymore."
"Trump’s staff tried, unsuccessfully, to get the General Services Administration to pay rent at Mar-a-Lago — potentially for his lifetime — for the office space he has created for himself above the club’s ballroom," The Post adds.
- Six days a week, Trump "plays 18 or sometimes 27 holes of golf ... After lunch, he changes into a suit ... and shows up in the office above the Mar-a-Lago ballroom or, when he is in New Jersey, a similar office in a cottage near the Bedminster club's pool."
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