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Tanuki

(14,918 posts)
Thu Aug 10, 2017, 05:36 PM Aug 2017

Little-known feature of Mar-a-lago: bomb shelters

http://www.mypalmbeachpost.com/news/local/little-known-feature-trump-mar-lago-bomb-shelters/I25RcSq5vlPHShk8lul7AM/amp.html

...."Hidden inside the hedges bordering President Donald Trump’s Mar-a-Lago estate, the shelters now could provide an added sense of security for cabinet members and international leaders joining the president on his Palm Beach weekends.
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The bomb shelters are no secret: Cereal heiress Marjorie Merriweather Post, who built Mar-a-Lago in 1927, had the bomb shelters installed during the Korean War. They were mentioned in nearly every Palm Beach Post report on the sale of Mar-a-Lago to Trump in the mid-1980s. And Trump has occasionally spoken of them since.

In a 2007 Esquire profile, then-businessman Trump told writer Tom Junod that three of his properties are equipped with bunkers — Mar-a-Lago, Trump International Golf Club in suburban West Palm Beach and Trump’s estate in Westchester, New York. The bomb shelter at the golf course now serves a different purpose.
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Trump also has access to another bomb shelter in Palm Beach County, one built for President John F. Kennedy to protect him from nuclear fallout should a missile have hit during one of Kennedy’s visits to his family’s compound in Palm Beach. That bunker, squirreled away in the scrub on Peanut Island just north of West Palm Beach in the Intracoastal Waterway, now is open for tours."




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Little-known feature of Mar-a-lago: bomb shelters (Original Post) Tanuki Aug 2017 OP
Hope they're full of spiders. Throck Aug 2017 #1
and snakes.... hlthe2b Aug 2017 #2
More likely African Redhead Agama XRubicon Aug 2017 #4
I'd bet mold and mildew are a problem being under the water level. lpbk2713 Aug 2017 #3
Now that we know where they are we can go join trump Doreen Aug 2017 #5
So That's Why He Doesn't Care If He Starts A War Me. Aug 2017 #6
Somebody go and padlock them, please. Qutzupalotl Aug 2017 #7

lpbk2713

(42,751 posts)
3. I'd bet mold and mildew are a problem being under the water level.
Thu Aug 10, 2017, 05:44 PM
Aug 2017



It probably stinks like crap. Good enough for Trump.

Doreen

(11,686 posts)
5. Now that we know where they are we can go join trump
Thu Aug 10, 2017, 05:47 PM
Aug 2017

in an enclosed bunker for a few years until it is safe to go out. What say you all?

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