Friday, November 11, 2016

Moving Downmarket

Reading Politico about Melania's sit down with Michelle at the White House, I had an extremely minor epiphany. Moving from the ostentatious luxury of Trump Tower and Mar y Lago to the White House has got to feel like moving from the Hamptons to a museum or perhaps to a Williamsburg-like recreation of history.

It isn't moving to a better neighborhood, for sure, although the job that comes with the house is arguably the biggest job in the world today. Like many recent presidents, the Trumps will probaby spent a fair amount of time at their own homes. Reagan, Nixon and the Bushes certainly did, as did Johnson and Kennedy. The Clintons and Obamas did not.