The Palm Beach Post

Trump returning to Palm Beach this weekend,

President plans to make appearance­s in Miss., Pensacola.

- By Mike Stucka mstucka@pbpost.com

PALM BEACH — President Donald Trump appears to be planning a return visit to Mar-a-Lago this weekend.

New advisories from the Federal Aviation Administra­tion show airspace will be restricted over West Palm Beach from Friday through Sunday, with details that are hallmarks of a presidenti­al visit. Other advisories were issued for relatively close trips — to Pensacola on Friday, and Jackson, Miss., on Saturday.

Trump’s 2020 campaign previously announced he will hold a rally at 7 p.m. CST at the 10,000-capacity Pensacola Bay Center, which is 15 miles from Alabama, where four days later will decide a special U.S. Senate race between Democrat Doug Jones and Republican Roy Moore. Although the Friday rally is billed as a Trump 2020 campaign rally, Pensacola and Mobile, Ala., are part of the same media market, and Alabama GOP Chairman Terry Latham has urged Alabamians to attend the Trump event.

Trump on Monday endorsed Moore, who has been accused of initiating sexual contact with a 14-yearold girl in 1979 when he was a 32-year-old assistant district attorney.

The White House issued a statement saying the two had spoken on the phone and Trump endorsed Moore’s campaign.

On Saturday, Trump will attend the opening of the Mississipp­i Civil Rights Museum in Jackson, which also is notably close to Alabama, CNN reported Monday.

Trump has previously used his Mar-a-Lago resort as a base of activities in the Southeast. He was last here for the Thanksgivi­ng holiday.

This visit is being planned even as Congress debates ways to avert — at least, temporaril­y — a shutdown of the federal government for lack of money.

The initial FAA advisories issued Monday don’t include details about times and locations. Hints about those details normally come in a different kind of FAA advisory, which are typically issued in the days before trips. The advisory for West Palm Beach includes a note that the FAA, Department of Defense and other agencies will be looking for violators of the airspace.

Restrictio­ns begin about 35 miles away from a center point, which historical­ly has been close to Mar-a-Lago.

The U.S. Coast Guard also enforces restrictio­ns near Mar-a-Lago. Local law enforcemen­t agencies are also typically involved in protecting the president, at a cost of millions of dollars.

Trump made seven trips to Mar-a-Lago in the first few months of his presidency.

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