‘Treated badly’ by NY, Trump to move residence to Florida
WASHINGTON:US President Donald Trump has announced that he will change his permanent residence from New York to Palm Beach, Florida, claiming he had been “treated very badly” in his native city.
“My family and I will be making Palm Beach, Florida, our Permanent Residence,” the president tweeted on Thursday. “I cherish New York, and the people of New York, and always will, but unfortunately, despite the fact that I pay millions of dollars in city, state and local taxes each year, I have been treated very badly by the political leaders of both the city and state,” he wrote, adding that “few have been treated worse.”
According to a report from The New York Times, Trump - who is a native New Yorker -and his wife Melania filed individual declarations of domicile in September changing their primary residence from Manhattan to Palm Beach. The New York Times also wrote that White House officials declined to say why Trump changed his primary residence but cited a source close to the president as saying it was primarily for tax purposes.
Other than the White House, the Trumps’ main residence will now be their Mar-a-lago resort, where Trump has spent 99 days since becoming president- compared to just 20 at his previous primary residence in Trump
Tower, according to the Times.
US KNOWS WHO ISLAMIC STATE’S NEW LEADER IS President Trump said on Friday that the United States knows who the Islamic State group’s new leader is, after the death of Abu Bakr al-baghdadi in a Us-led commando raid.
“ISIS has a new leader. We know exactly who he is!” Trump tweeted. US officials did not give any more details.
Islamic State earlier confirmed the death of its leader al-baghdadi in a statement and named his replacement as Abu Ibrahim al-hashimi al-quraishi.
However, little is known about Hashimi, whose name was seldom mentioned as a possible successor the multiple times that Baghdadi was falsely reported killed in recent years.
Baghdadi, who led IS since 2014 and was the world’s most wanted man, died in a US special forces raid in Syria’s northwestern province of Idlib on Sunday.