When he opened Mar-a-Lago, Trump welcomed Jewish members, African-Americans, and gay couples, who had been prohibited from joining other Palm Beach clubs.
The 128-room mansion in Palm Beach was built by cereal heiress Marjorie Merriweather Post in 1927.
Trump purchased it for $5 million in 1985 and turned it into a private club 10 years later. Now he calls it the "Winter White House."
A new book by a group of Miami Herald journalists, entitled The Grifter's Club: Trump, Mar-a-Lago, and the Selling of the Presidency, offers an investigative account of what really goes on inside Mar-a-Lago's walls.
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