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A King in His Castle: How Donald Trump Lives, From His Longtime Butler By Jason Horowitz of The New York Times

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“You can always tell when the king is here,” Mr. Trump’s longtime butler, Anthony Senecal, said of the master of the house and Republican presidential candidate. Senecal, who is Trump's butler at the Mar-a-Lago in Palm Beach, Fla., a 118-room snowbird’s paradise that will become a winter White House if Trump is elected president. "Few people here can anticipate Mr. Trump’s demands and desires better than Mr. Senecal, 74, who has worked at the property for nearly 60 years, and for Mr. Trump for nearly 30 of them," New York Times writer Jason Horowitz writes. In a long feature, Trump's at home behavior and lifestyle is part Emperor, part Pharaoh, and a big part spoiled monster. Can someone living in such opulence and gratuity be in touch with the "common people" of America? An interesting read, but a long one.
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Samuel Vargo worked as a full-time reporter and editor for more than 20 years at a number of daily newspapers and business journals. He was also an adjunct English professor at colleges and universities in Ohio, West Virginia, Mississippi (more...)
 

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