Since his inauguration on January 20, President Donald Trump has spent 66 of his 207 days in office at a Trump property, according to an analysis by NBC News. At a news conference at Trump Tower on Tuesday afternoon, he mentioned a Charlottesville, Virginia winery he purchased as one of his many properties (his son Eric actually own it; more on that below).
While moving into the White House granted him access to Camp David as a country retreat, Trump already had an array of impressive properties at his disposal. And judging by all the trips he's taken as president to two of them, Mar-a-Lago in Palm Beach and Trump National Golf Club in Bedminster, New Jersey, he prefers his own places to a government-issued one.
Here's a survey of Trump's personal real-estate portfolio.
Trump Tower Penthouse, New York City
Trump's New York City residence is a gilded, three-level penthouse 66 stories up at the top of Trump Tower, his skyscraper at 725 Fifth Avenue. (Barron, his 10-year-old son, reportedly has a floor all to himself.) The president-elect's offices are also in the building, so living and working at the same address was not new to him when he moved into 1600 Pennsylvania Avenue. The White House decor might be a bit subdued for him though, since the penthouse was modeled after the Palace of Versailles, with rococo decor and a profuse amount of gold.
Trump took Forbes on a tour of the penthouse during the presidential election and told the publication that it was the "best apartment ever built" and bragged about its 33,000-square-foot size and estimated value of at least $200 million. The trouble is, according to Forbes, "those comments were typical Trump: boastful and inaccurate." The residence is actually 10,996 square feet and worth an estimated $64 million.
Check it out in the video tour, from an old episode of The Apprentice, below.
Mar-a-Lago, Palm Beach
Trump told me that Mar-a-Lago, the 128-room mansion built by cereal heiress Marjorie Merriweather Post in 1927, is "the great estate of Palm Beach." He's also taken to calling it the "winter White House," despite the fact that it is not a publicly owned or maintained building and is something of a security nightmare.
Interestingly, that's what Post always wanted it to be. She donated the property to the U.S. government upon her death, but in 1980 it was returned to Post's daughters because of the $1 million in annual maintenance costs. Trump bought the 17-acre property for $5 million in 1985 and turned it into a private club ten years later. He added a 20,000-square foot ballroom with $7 million of golf leaf and spent $100,00 on four gold-plated sinks.
Today, the privilege of hobnobbing with Trump as a member reportedly involves a $200,000 (up from the pre-election rate of $100,000) initiation fee plus yearly dues of $14,000 and annual food minimum of $2,000. Trump made $15.6 million from the club in 2014.
Seven Springs, Bedford, New York
One of Trump's more under-the-radar residences, Seven Springs has 60 rooms—15 of which are bedrooms—in addition to a bowling alley and three pools. He reportedly paid $7.5 million for the property in 1996 and planned to turn it into a golf course but it's remained a private house to this day (probably because of vehement opposition to the plan from local residents).
Bedford is about 45 miles north of New York City, and the Trump family seems to use the 50,000-square-foot house, built in 1919 by former Federal Reserve Chairman Eugene Meyer, as a weekend and summer getaway. He also reportedly, and perhaps unwittingly, allowed the late Libyan dictator Muammar Gaddafi to stay in a tent there during the United Nations General Assembly meeting in 2009 when no hotels would allow Gaddafi as a guest.
Here's another video tour to check out:
Trump National Golf Club, Bedminster Township, New Jersey
The Bedminster golf club was thrust into the headlines last November following the presidential election. Trump hosted weekend meetings there with potential cabinet appointees like Rudy Giuliani, Wilbur Ross, and Mitt Romney.
While the main house is a private club open to members (at a reported cost of $350,000), the Trump family owns cottages on the property. Ivanka Trump and Jared Kushner got married there in 2009, and they won an application to expand their cottage by 2,200 square feet in 2015.
Trump loves the area so much he once wanted to be buried there (he's since switched his intended resting place to Florida).
Le Château des Palmiers, St. Martin
President Trump put this walled Caribbean compound on the market this spring with a reported listing price of $28 million, but the price was recently dropped to $16.9 million—a decrease of more than $11 million. Le Château des Palmiers, which Trump bought in 2013 and has used primarily as a rental property, includes nine bedrooms and 12 full bathrooms. There are two villas, in addition to pool cabanas and an estate manager's house, on the five-acre estate.
The property also features "a huge heated pool, an open air and air conditioned fitness center, a tennis court, and covered outdoor bar, [and] billiards and dining areas," according to the listing.
"Greetings from Donald J. Trump. Escape to a place no other," a brochure for the property reads, according to Mansion Global. Rental prices reportedly start at $6,000 per night in the low season for the smaller of the two villas and go up to $28,000 during the winter holiday season.
Trump Winery, Charlottesville, Virginia
Trump Winery has a long and strange history (read all about it here). To summarize, Trump paid the "bargain-basement price of $8.5 million on a deal that could ultimately be worth $170 million," netting him 1,100 Virginia acres, including the vineyards and winemaking operation "that had been meticulously cultivated by its previous owner, Patricia Kluge (who defaulted on her loans, after which the property was seized by Bank of America). He installed his second-oldest son, Eric, as president of the nascent Trump Winery.
Today, the 23,000-square-foot, 45-room main building, Ablemarle House, is part of the Trump Hotels brand (a recent search showed rates starting at $299 per night). And while Trump said at an August 15 press conference that he owns "one of the largest wineries in the United States," the winery's website itself states that it "is a registered trade name of Eric Trump Wine Manufacturing LLC, which is not owned, managed or affiliated with Donald J. Trump, The Trump Organization or any of their affiliates" (head here for more on that claim).
Where It All Began: Donald Trump's Childhood Home in Queens, New York
The 2,500-square-foot house, which the president's father built in 1940, is available to rent for $725 a night on Airbnb.
