Trump’s Mar-a-Lago partly closed for COVID-19

PALM BEACH, Fla. — Former President Donald Trump’s Mar-a-Lago club on Palm Beach has been partly closed because of a COVID-19 outbreak.

Mar-a-Lago on Friday said it closed the Beach Club and the a la carte Dining Room after an undisclosed number of employees tested positive for COVID-19. Banquet and event services remain open, the club said.

“We will update you when service resumes,” the statement said.

The statement also said that in accordance with federal public health guidelines “a thorough sanitizing and cleaning of any affected areas and club facilities” has been conducted. The club also said it will “continue our heightened environmental cleaning regimen.”

Trump, former first lady Melania Trump and son Barron have been living at the mansion since they moved from the White House in January, after the 2020 election.

It’s unclear if any of them have been at Mar-a-Lago recently. CNN reported that the family is at the club, preparing for Barron’s 15th birthday on Saturday.

All three contracted COVID-19 last year and have since recovered.

Trump is said to have received his vaccine shot in January before leaving office.

The closure comes at the height of the social season and spring break, when Mar-aLago’s Beach Club is especially busy. Mara-Lago has another pool on the west side of the estate but it is not on the beach.

Posts to Twitter, Facebook, Instagram, TikTok, Parler and YouTube have long revealed Mar-a-Lago’s indifference to enforcing public health protocols to control the coronavirus.