Donald Trump‘s deep roots in Palm Beach could become more evident throughout his presidency.
Through a series of exclusive interviews with sources close to Trump and his family, PEOPLE learned that the incoming president may desire to conduct his upcoming official duties from his Palm Beach home, Mar-a-Lago, and spend less time in Washington, D.C.
“I think Trump will try to run the nation from Mar-a-Lago. He has always wanted to do that,” a political source tells PEOPLE, adding, “He is blissfully happy in Palm Beach.”
Long before Trump purchased the 1920s-era Mar-a-Lago estate, it was envisioned as a space that could become a “Winter White House” for a future president.
Its original owner, cereal company heiress Marjorie Merriweather Post, left the property to the National Park Service when she died so that it could become a place for government business, though it was returned to private ownershipdue to the …