Kim on over to my place!
Trump ‘could hold nuclear summit at his holiday home’
WITH its Olympic-sized swimming pool, liveried attendants and expensive delicacies such as lobster tails with caviar blinis on the menu, Mar-a-Lago is the perfect setting for an extravagant honeymoon or a romantic break.
But President Trump’s ‘Winter White House’, a sprawling 20acre, 126-room estate overlooking the Atlantic in Palm Beach, Florida, might be the setting of his biggest political coup yet.
The hotel, spa and golf complex, which Trump bought for £5.7 million in 1985 but which is now said to be worth more than £100 million, is one of the places he and North Korean despot Kim Jong Un could hold their historic first meeting in May.
A source told The Mail on Sunday: ‘Several locations are being mentioned, including the United Nations and the demilitarised zone between North and South Korea, but Mar-a-Lago would be Trump’s pick. It’s his favourite place in the world.’
Indeed, the President married First Lady Melania at the estate and has visited the property 14 times since being sworn in.
Rooms at Mar-a-Lago boast solid gold taps, crystal chandeliers and four-poster beds. Members have to be invited to join, paying an fee of £145,000 and then £10,000-a-year membership dues.
Rooms start at £750 a night – but if the President is in residence they can top £3,500 a night.
World leaders were stunned last week when diplomats announced Trump and Kim would meet, marking the first time a US President has met a leader of North Korea. The two have been locked in a war of words over Pyongyang’s nuclear weapons programme, with Trump famously vowing that any threat would ‘be met with fire and fury’.
Yesterday, Trump tweeted that the meeting would be ‘a very good one for the world’.
Meanwhile, it has emerged that the ‘princess’ sister of Kim could be playing a key role in getting the two leaders together.
Kim Yo-jong, 30, flew to South Korea for the recent Winter Olympics and held meetings with American diplomats, holding out an olive branch to allow negotiations to begin.
‘It’s his favourite place in the world’