mar-a-lago actually has a really interesting history. marjorie merriweather post (richest woman in the world at the time) built it in the '20s as the most expensive non-royal residence in history. she died in the '70s and left it in her will to the us government to be used as a winter white house. but none of the presidents ever really used it much and the maintenance expenses were so insanely high that the government eventually just gave it back to the post family foundation. they listed it for sale in the early '80s for $20 million, but no buyers. trump offered to buy it for $15 million, but his offer was rejected. trump then bought the property between mar-a-lago and the ocean for $2 million and announced he was going to build a massive house there, destroying mar-a-lago's view, which meant that no one else was interested in buying it. trump then was able to buy mar-a-lago for just $7 million. picrel.
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