Frequency of DT Mar-a-Lago visits devastating to businesses...

[pat_k]

... connected to the Lantana airport. Traffic disruptions damaging Palm Beach County retailers.

http://www.npr.org/2017/02/17/515753028/trumps-frequent-visits-disrupt-palm-beach-life-and-businesses

For the third week in a row, President Trump is spending the weekend in Florida at Mar-a-Lago.

At Palm Beach County Park Airport in Lantana, just 6 miles from Mar-a-Lago, the situation is dire... Whenever Trump is in Mar-a-Lago, Federal Aviation Administration restrictions ban all flights out of the airport...

Jorge Gonzalez, whose planes tow advertising banners, says the flight restrictions in place while President Trump is at Mar-a-Lago may put him out of business.

"For our banner towing, 97 percent of our business is done on Saturdays and Sundays and on holidays," Gonzalez says.

Recently, he says, Trump "comes every weekend, so basically we aren't able to work."

It's a similar story for nearly every business at Lantana, one of the busiest small airports in the country. Flight schools, sightseeing flights and the company that operates the airport say if Trump's visits and the current restrictions continue, they may lose millions of dollars this year.

The problem is that this is the peak season, when snowbirds flock to Florida beaches. Gonzalez says that for his business, time is running out.

When Trump is there, the Secret Service shuts down a major thoroughfare, making it difficult to get anywhere in Palm Beach. In the town's tony shopping district, sales are down. . .

[no_hypocrisy]

1. Trump is enjoying "sticking it to the Elites" of Palm Beach.

They refused him into their circles and he's getting even.

[Stinky The Clown]

2. That's surely a part of it for him.

[pat_k]

3. Too bad it's guys like Jorge Gonzalez who'll pay the price.

Whatever he's doing, one thing is for sure. He doesn't give a shit the people he's gonna put out of business if he keeps up with these weekend trips -- people who rely on selling goods and services to the snowbirds a few months a year.