Mar-a-Lago members, who at one point went on to spend $200,000 for being associated to the President’s club, have started moving out, reports stated.

Historian Laurence Leamer on Saturday told MSNBC that people no longer want to be associated to former US President Donald Trump and hence are exiting the luxurious club at Palm Beach. 

According to MSNBC, the interview with Leamer happened following reports that residents of Palm Beach, Florida may try to use local laws to prohibit him from living at the complex. 

“I know that you live actually in this neck of the woods and you have witnessed the big return. So what happened there and what’s happened since Wednesday? Are supporters camping out outside his property there? Are they lining the streets? What’s it look like?” anchor Alex Witt asked. 

To which Laurence Leamer, the author of ‘Mar-a-Lago: Inside the Gates of Power at Donald Trump’s Presidential Palace’ said,” No. What’s fascinating — I’ve talked to a bunch of people the last couple of days. A lot of people have quit Mar-a-Lago. They don’t want their names to be in The Washington Post or The New York Times, and the list of people that have quit, they’ve silently walked out. They don’t want anything to do with Donald Trump. And many of the members, they’re not going there very often, because it’s a very dispirited place. They’re not concerned about politics. It’s a sad place for Trump to be hanging out. It’s not what it was.”

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Witt further enquired: “Does that mean that Trump won’t also get the money that he gets for those private club memberships? That’s going to dwindle as well?”

“You know, these people paid up to $200,000 to get in because he was president. I don’t think they’re going to pay that anymore. It’s just another measure of how his power has declined and even in Palm Beach, where many people were for him, simply because they wanted lower taxes and they wanted a booming stock market. But they’re walking away from him. Even here, people don’t like him,” said Leamer. 

Donald Trump moved to his Palm Beach club on the day of President Joe Biden’s Presidential Inauguration, becoming the first person in his position to miss his successor’s ceremony.