Trump wants to make his Florida golf club a permanent presidential retreat

Reported by NBC News. The paragraphs below are the opening of that article, reproduced word for word — not a summary, and not the whole piece.

President Donald Trump wants to add a presidential retreat to his club in West Palm Beach, Florida, with his golf course there becoming the “permanent United States Presidential Golf Course.”

An attorney for the Trump International Golf Club proposed the designation and construction of a retreat on Trump’s dime in a letter to the Palm Beach County Board of County Commissioners, which has been obtained by NBC News.

“Just as Camp David, Windsor Palace or the Elysee Palace are known worldwide, so too will the Presidential Golf Course in Palm Beach County,” Harvey Oyer wrote in the letter last month, which was first reported by The Palm Beach Post .

The White House confirmed the proposal to The Washington Post on Wednesday. Trump, asked about the report in the Oval Office, told reporters that it had not been his idea but that he was on board.

“This was suggested to me by the military and Secret Service,” and it is “a great idea,” he said.

“They asked if I’d be willing to do it, and I said I would be,” he said.