Trump starts governing early from his Palm Beach shadow White House, creating significant impact

By Free Republic | Created at 2025-01-11 22:57:32 | Updated at 2025-01-16 05:29:07 4 days ago

Trump starts governing early from his Palm Beach shadow White House, creating significant impact
Just the News ^ | January 10, 2025 11:00pm Updated: January 11, 2025 2:57am | Ben Whedon

Posted on 01/11/2025 1:51:36 PM PST by E. Pluribus Unum

President-elect Donald Trump’s past few months have been unusually busy for an incoming president and have seen him notch key agenda wins before even returning to office.

With President Joe Biden essentially absent from the public eye, Trump’s Mar-a-Lago estate has taken on the role of a shadow White House, from which he has begun to operate a sort of pre-presidential administration.

Foreign dignitaries, domestic politicians, and billionaire investors alike have flocked to the Palm Beach resort to meet with the incoming president, some of whom have brought with them economic and/or ideological offerings. His reach has extended well beyond the confines of his compound, reverberating across allied nations while he and his surrogates work to seemingly push out opposition figures leading key American partners.

Here’s a look at his biggest moves while waiting to reclaim the Oval Office:

Deposing Trudeau

Outgoing Canadian Prime Minister Justin Trudeau speedily traveled to Mar-a-Lago after Trump floated the possibility of imposing tariffs on the country. The meeting was widely panned in Canadian media and even led to comedic skits depicting Trudeau eating a Big Mac without the use of his hands at Trump’s behest.

The president-elect’s subsequent retorts referring to Trudeau as the “governor” of Canada further belittled his status in the eyes of the Canuck electorate. Already struggling in the polls, Trump’s proposition of making Canada the 51st state seems to have helped fuel Trudeau’s already significant decline in public opinion and he subsequently announced his plans to resign once the Liberal Party selected his replacement.

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TOPICS: Government; Politics/Elections
KEYWORDS: administration; bloggers; trump; unprecedented

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To: E. Pluribus Unum

Nature abhors a vacuum, and the FJB administration was a vacuum.

2 posted on 01/11/2025 1:52:48 PM PST by E. Pluribus Unum (The worst thing about censorship is █████ ██ ████ ████ ████ █ ███████ ████. FJB.)

To: E. Pluribus Unum

I still think that the inauguration should be at Mar-a-Lago and that the White House should be empty for 4 years. Stay in Florida. It’s safer.

To: E. Pluribus Unum

If Joe was REALLY capable, he’d be angry at that. But no one is at the helm in DC

4 posted on 01/11/2025 1:55:59 PM PST by SMARTY (In politics, stupidity is not a handicap. Napoleon Bonaparte I)

To: ClearCase_guy

I have thought the same thing.

5 posted on 01/11/2025 1:56:03 PM PST by E. Pluribus Unum (The worst thing about censorship is █████ ██ ████ ████ ████ █ ███████ ████. FJB.)

To: E. Pluribus Unum

Someone has to run the country.

6 posted on 01/11/2025 1:56:30 PM PST by I-ambush (From the brightest star comes the blackest hole. You had so much to offer, why didya offer your sou?)

To: E. Pluribus Unum

Why do they say nothing about Obama’s shadow government?

7 posted on 01/11/2025 2:06:05 PM PST by ransomnote (IN GOD WE TRUST)

To: I-ambush

“Someone has to run the country.”
We, the people run the country,
President and Congress run the Government.
Supreme court is supposed to make sure we
all follow the rules
as written in the constitution.
We the people can change those rules anytime we
wish to, following the constitution rules of course.

8 posted on 01/11/2025 2:06:29 PM PST by rellic (no such thing as a moderate Moslem or Democrat )

To: E. Pluribus Unum

Well why not? We have no president at present - nor for the last few years.

9 posted on 01/11/2025 2:07:35 PM PST by grobdriver (The CDC can KMA!)

To: ransomnote

Why do they say nothing about Obama’s shadow government?

The first rule of Obama’s shadow government is you don't talk about Obama’s shadow government.

The second rule of Obama’s shadow government is...🤡

10 posted on 01/11/2025 2:08:46 PM PST by E. Pluribus Unum (The worst thing about censorship is █████ ██ ████ ████ ████ █ ███████ ████. FJB.)

To: E. Pluribus Unum

They are all Kissing Trumps Ring.

11 posted on 01/11/2025 2:09:23 PM PST by tennmountainman ( (“Less propaganda would be appreciated.” JimRob 12-2-2023 DITTO)

To: ClearCase_guy

12 posted on 01/11/2025 2:09:25 PM PST by metmom (He who testifies to these things says, “Surely I am coming soon." Amen. Come, Lord Jesus)

To: E. Pluribus Unum

Okay, do they always say “SHADOW White House”?

For his MANY vacations and goof-off sessions, Joe Biden has been away more than other Presidents. No complaints from the lapdog media.

Camp David is usually called the Summer White House since FDR and Dwight Eisenhower retreated there.
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The usual trash from the execrable PBS in 2017——

Multiple Homes Mean More Costly Protection For Presidents
March 25, 2017
NPR
President Trump has two residences outside of the White House. That arrangement is very expensive for taxpayers, and it turns out, there is a federal law that tries to tame such spending.
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13 posted on 01/11/2025 2:16:19 PM PST by frank ballenger (There's a battle outside and it's raging. It'll soon shake your windows and rattle your walls. )

To: ransomnote

Because it's impotent. And made up of a declining number of self aggrandizing opportunists and grifters.

14 posted on 01/11/2025 2:16:25 PM PST by lapsus calami (What's that stink? Code Pink ! ! And their buddy Murtha, too!)

To: E. Pluribus Unum

With a completely demented perv as President and an incompetent, missing VP, someone has to take charge and it is obviously no one in the corrupt Biden Administration.

15 posted on 01/11/2025 2:19:03 PM PST by falcon99 ( )

To: E. Pluribus Unum

As to the 2nd White House, watch for a beach and a sleeping Joe Biden since 2020.

The 82-year-old US president has taken 570 vacation days which is 40% of his four-year presidency.
As of last week.

16 posted on 01/11/2025 2:19:47 PM PST by frank ballenger (There's a battle outside and it's raging. It'll soon shake your windows and rattle your walls. )

To: E. Pluribus Unum

PLEASE HOLD THE INAUGURATION AT MAR A LAGO!!!!!!

PLEASE!!!!!

To: E. Pluribus Unum

"It's The Office of the President Elect, like what 0bama ran.

18 posted on 01/11/2025 2:25:35 PM PST by Paladin2

To: ClearCase_guy

19 posted on 01/11/2025 2:31:57 PM PST by albie (U)

To: ClearCase_guy

“I still think that the inauguration should be at Mar-a-Lago and that the White House should be empty for 4 years. Stay in Florida. It’s safer.”

I have advocated for years that the Presidential residence should be moved to Camp David with the WH used for state dinners and official functions but otherwise kept as a museum.

20 posted on 01/11/2025 2:32:19 PM PST by Fai Mao (The US government is run by pedophiles and Perverts for pedophiles and perverts.)

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