Do you have $200,000 and a fascination with the prospect of nuclear annihilation? You may want to look into purchasing a membership at Mar-a-Lago, the “winter White House,” where this weekend some guy posted a selfie with the Trump aide who carries the United States’ nuclear football. 
 
 
 
 Richard DeAgazio, an investor and actor, posted several pictures from Mar-a-Lago this weekend showing President Donald Trump and his entourage. One post, first reported by the Washington Post, read, “HOLY MOLY !!! It was fascinating to watch the flurry of activity at dinner when the news came that North Korea had launched a missile in the direction of Japan.” 
 
 The photo appears to confirm what CNN reported this weekend: that “aides used the camera lights on their phones to help the stone-faced Trump and Abe read through the documents.” The fact that aides are directing their phone cameras at classified documents is horrifying enough by itself. 
 
 But wait! There’s more bizarre news from Palm Beach, FL’s finest resort. Another post, first noticed by Pablo Torre on Twitter, appears to show DeAgazio with a man he calls “Rick,” who he says “carries the nuclear football.” DeAgazio was clearly pleased with this encounter, saying “Rick is the Man.” 
 
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 A second image in the post shows Rick, who is the Man, carrying the briefcase elsewhere, and a recent Wikipedia image seems to show the same man carrying the nuclear football. For those unfamiliar, the nuclear football is a large black briefcase that is carried wherever the president goes. Its main purpose is to confirm the president’s identity and allow him to communicate with the Pentagon. The football also provides the president with a “simplified menu of nuclear strike options.” It is not a briefcase you would want to leave on the train or set down at the feet of a random Mar-a-Lago member while you pose for a photo, I would imagine. 
 
 Other images show DeAgazio with Trump’s chief strategist Steve Bannon: 
 
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 And here’s President Trump on his phone while Japanese Prime Minister Shinzo Abe looks to the heavens for guidance: 
 
 DeAgazio’s IMDB page shows he’s appeared in several movies, including as “Restaurant Patron” in Ted and “Wedding Guest” in Bride Wars. Other posts on DeAgazio’s Facebook page indicate he’s a big Trump supporter; one features a meme of Barack Obama in a sombrero, praising Trump for “enforcing the laws” on immigration. 
 
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 DeAgazio has since made his Facebook page private, or deleted it entirely. Gizmodo emailed DeAgazio for comment this morning and has not yet received a reply. 
 
 Given that the nuclear football follows Trump everywhere and is therefore photographed a lot, the photo itself isn’t really a security issue. But these pictures are another sad reminder that anyone with $200,000 to spare, including the random guy who played Restaurant Patron in the comedic film Ted, can buy a level of access to the president and his closest staff. He can even hobnob with the guy who holds in his hands the power to vaporize the planet. Just another cool thing to keep in mind about this insane world we now occupy. ||||| (CNN) The iceberg wedge salads, dripping with blue cheese dressing, had just been served on the terrace of Mar-a-Lago Saturday when the call to President Donald Trump came in: North Korea had launched an intermediate-range ballistic missile , its first challenge to international rules since Trump was sworn in three weeks ago. 
 
 The launch, which wasn't expected, presented Trump with one of the first breaking national security incidents of his presidency. It also noisily disrupted what was meant to be an easygoing weekend of high-level male bonding with the more sobering aspects of global diplomacy. 
 
 Sitting alongside Japanese Prime Minister Shinzo Abe, with whom he'd spent most of the day golfing, Trump took the call on a mobile phone at his table, which was set squarely in the middle of the private club's dining area. 
 
 This was the first missile test by Pyongyang since US President Donald Trump took office. 
 
 This was the first missile test by Pyongyang since US President Donald Trump took office. 
 
 Kim celebrates with soldiers after the missile test, which North Korean state media claimed was successful. 
 
 Kim celebrates with soldiers after the missile test, which North Korean state media claimed was successful. 
 
 Kim was present at the site and personally gave the order for the launch, state media reported. 
 
 Kim was present at the site and personally gave the order for the launch, state media reported. 
 
 The Pukguksong-2 was launched on Sunday, according to North Korean state media. 
 
 The Pukguksong-2 was launched on Sunday, according to North Korean state media. 
 
 North Korean leader Kim Jong Un looks on as the country tests a new intermediate-range ballistic missile. 
 
 North Korean leader Kim Jong Un looks on as the country tests a new intermediate-range ballistic missile. 
 
 As Mar-a-Lago's wealthy members looked on from their tables, and with a keyboard player crooning in the background, Trump and Abe's evening meal quickly morphed into a strategy session, the decision-making on full view to fellow diners, who described it in detail to CNN. 
 
 News of Pyongyang's launch had emerged an hour earlier, as Trump was preparing for dinner in his residence. Officials had concluded the Musudan-level missile flew 310 miles off North Korea's eastern coast before crashing into the Sea of Japan. 
 
 For the new commander in chief, the launch was his first brush with the hermit regime's saber-rattling, which along with heated rhetoric from the young leader Kim Jong-un has spooked the country's neighbors. During his pre-election intelligence briefings, Trump requested supplemental information about North Korea from US intelligence officials. National security analysts have identified the nation's nuclear program as one of the imminent threats facing Trump as he begins his tenure in the White House. 
 
 In his talks with Abe at the White House on Friday, the North Korea threat weighed heavily. Abe said during a concluding news conference that he and Trump had agreed to "strongly demand" the country "abandon (its) nuclear and ballistic missile program." They departed a short time later for Florida. 
 
 On Saturday evening, as the two men walked through Mar-a-Lago's ornate wrought-iron doors on their way to dinner, neither responded to questions about the launch from reporters. 
 
 Swanning through the club's living room and main dining area alongside Abe, Trump was -- as is now typical -- swarmed with paying members, who now view dinner at the club as an opportunity for a few seconds of face time with the new President. 
 
 But as he sat down for the planned working dinner with Abe, whose country is well within range of North Korea's missiles, it was clear his counterpart felt it necessary to respond to the test. The launch occurred just before 8 a.m. on Sunday morning in Japan. 
 
 Trump's national security adviser Michael Flynn and chief strategist Steve Bannon left their seats to huddle closer to Trump as documents were produced and phone calls were placed to officials in Washington and Tokyo. 
 
 Presidents always travel with secure communications equipment, even when they're on vacation. A Sensitive Compartmented Information Facility, known as a SCIFF, also comes along. The tent-like structure can fit inside a hotel room and allows a president to conduct sensitive phone calls without the risk of being detected by recording devices. 
 
 At Mar-a-Lago on Saturday, it had not been immediately clear whether Trump utilized that equipment, but White House spokesman Sean Spicer told reporters Monday he had. 
 
 "The President was briefed in a SCIFF prior to dinner," Spicer told reporters Monday. "They were reviewing the logistics for the press conference ... President was subsequently briefed in a classified setting." 
 
 On Saturday night, the patio was lit only with candles and moonlight, so aides used the camera lights on their phones to help the stone-faced Trump and Abe read through the documents. 
 
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 Even as a flurry of advisers and translators descended upon the table carrying papers and phones for their bosses to consult, dinner itself proceeded apace. Waiters cleared the wedge salads and brought along the main course as Trump and Abe continued consulting with aides. 
 
 First lady Melania Trump and Abe's wife, Akie, remained seated across from their husbands, speaking quietly through a translator amid the activity. Earlier in the day, the women had toured a nearby Japanese garden and visited the gothic Bethesda-by-the-Sea church, where Trump and his wife were married in 2005. 
 
 Eventually Trump and Abe, along with their collection of aides, stood and moved from the dining terrace and toward a marble-trimmed ballroom, whose gilded columns were concealed by more sober-looking black drapes. 
 
 Standing in front of an American and Japanese flag, a stern-faced Abe called the launch "absolutely intolerable," and insisted North Korea adhere to United Nations Security Council resolutions barring it from testing of ballistic missiles. 
 
 Trump, in his short remarks, didn't mention the launch. He used a short statement to vow support for Japan instead. 
 
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 "I just want everybody to understand and fully know that the United States of America stands behind Japan, its great ally, 100%," Trump said. 
 
 He declined to read from a set of prepared remarks, which photographers captured images of, that were resting on his podium. Those remarks did mention the missile test specifically and vowed cooperation between allies to "safeguard and protect" against North Korea's "provocative acts." 
 
 "That was a joint statement we decided not to make," a senior administration official said afterward, explaining why those remarks were cast aside. Because Abe spoke first, and then Trump, there was "no need for communique," the official said. 
 
 Trump left the impromptu briefing room without taking questions, having delivered the first emergency foreign policy statement of his presidency, 
 
 But even as he confronted one of the gravest matters of his office, Trump nonetheless found it impossible to resist dropping in on a nearby wedding reception, already underway in his treasured Grand Ballroom. Trump designed and built the space himself after purchasing Mar-a-Lago in the 1980s. 
 
 Entering the ornate room, Trump took a photo with the bride and her bridesmaids, who posed in red gowns next to the commander in chief, mimicking his signature thumbs-up. 
 
 Then he grabbed a microphone. 
 
 "I saw them out on the lawn today," Trump said of the bride and groom, who were standing nearby. "I said to the Prime Minister of Japan, I said, 'C'mon Shinzo, let's go over and say hello.' " 
 
 "They've been members of this club for a long time," Trump said of the newlyweds. "They've paid me a fortune." ||||| A visitor to President Trump Donald John TrumpJulián Castro hits Trump in campaign launch: 'A crisis of leadership' Center stage once again: Colin Powell’s UN speech in ‘Vice’ Julián Castro announces 2020 White House bid, swipes at Trump MORE's Mar-a-Lago resort in Florida posted a Facebook photo with a person he says is responsible for carrying the black bag that contains the nuclear launch codes for the president of the United States. 
 
 “This is Rick...He carries the ‘football’ The nuclear football (also known as the atomic football, the President's emergency satchel, the Presidential Emergency Satchel, the button, the black box, or just the football) is a briefcase, the contents of which are to be used by the President of the United States to authorize a nuclear attack while away from fixed command centers, such as the White House Situation Room,” the caption reads. 
 
 The two images, one of which shows the man carrying the briefcase, is tagged at "Donald Trump Palm Beach Home." 
 
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 “It functions as a mobile hub in the strategic defense system of the United States. It is held by an aide-de-camp. and Rick is the Man,” the captions continues. 
 
 The user also posted several pictures of President Trump and First Lady Melania Trump, which are tagged at his private residence Mar-a-Lago in Palm Beach, Fla. He also posted pictures that appear to show Trump and Japanese Prime Minister discussing confidential national security information about a North Korean missile test in the public dining room at Mar-a-Lago. 
 
 The existence of the nuclear football isn't classified. Still, the pictures raise questions about the access enjoyed by Mar-a-Lago members, who have seen their annual membership fee double to $200,000 since Trump won the presidency. ||||| One of President Donald Trump’s friends posed with a service member who allegedly carries the nuclear codes during a Saturday dinner at Trump’s vacation property in Florida. 
 
 The Facebook post, which was deleted Monday, revealed the first name of the service member as Rick, along with other photos posed with Trump. The post also revealed photos of Trump and Japanese Prime Minister Shinzo Abe after North Korea conducted a missile launch in the Sea of Japan Saturday. The photos were first publicized by Phillip Bump of the Washington Post. 
 
 A previous photo taken of Trump exiting the CIA on his first day in office appears to show the same service member carrying the “nuclear football” behind the president. 
 
 The “nuclear football” includes the launch codes for the U.S. nuclear arsenal. The briefcase reportedly has the instructions on launching, “everything from firing a tactical nuclear weapon, one of them, to full-born Armageddon,” according to a former carrier’s comments to USAToday in 2005. 
 
 Previous carriers of the nuclear football also told USAToday in 2005 they are not allowed to discuss their roles. The regulations governing the identity of the football carrier’s today are unclear. 
 
 The Pentagon has not yet responded to The Daily Caller News Foundation’s request for comment. 
 
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– A member of President Trump's Mar-a-Lago Club in Florida posted a Facebook photo over the weekend that has caused quite a fuss. The reason? It shows the member posing with "Rick," whom he identified as the aide who follows Trump everywhere and carries the nation's nuclear codes. The Washington Post first mentioned the posting by retired investor Richard DeAgazio, who took it down after being asked about it. You can see the image at the Daily Caller, which also has wire-service photos that appear to show the same man following Trump on different days, and he is indeed carrying a hefty briefcase. Assuming this is, in fact, the man with the fabled nuclear football, it's not exactly a state secret, notes Gizmodo. After all, it's inevitable that he would show up in photos given that he's with the president constantly. The Hill, though, frames the hubbub this way: The photos "raise questions about the access enjoyed by Mar-a-Lago members, who have seen their annual membership fee double to $200,000 since Trump won the presidency." On that front, both the original Post story and another at CNN detail how Trump and Prime Minister Abe of Japan were at dinner at the club when news broke of North Korea's missile test. A line from CNN: "The patio was lit only with candles and moonlight, so aides used the camera lights on their phones to help the stone-faced Trump and Abe read through the documents." They did so as guests sat nearby. "Wow.....the center of the action!!!” wrote DeAgazio in another post.