Yet he's coming here to get away from the swamp. Imagine our joy.
Donald Trump is summering in New Jersey - is that the verb he'd use? - which is either tempting fate or latent masochism.
It was in New Jersey where his casinos went bust, four times to be exact, and it would have been five times if his father didn't bail him out with a $3.5 million loan.
It was in New Jersey where his 80s-era vanity football team, the New Jersey Generals, helped burn $200 million in just three years.
It was in New Jersey where he hallucinated about "thousands of people" celebrating the Twin Towers falling down, which holiday-makers usually find off-putting.
But now the President may use his golf retreat in Bedminster as his summer White House, which is like George Pickett vacationing in Gettysburg.
And that's going to cost you, Bedminster.
The posh village already calculated the cost of services based on the Trump's three-day cameo in November. So the mayor has asked Rep. Leonard Lance (R-7th Dist.) to solicit some federal help, as he figures the next tab could run over $300,000. Lance hasn't received an answer on this yet.
And so far, the governor hasn't summoned enough outrage to make a call, though we hear he knows a guy.
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This may not seem like one of Trump's most irrational decisions, but this is a public place, unlike the LBJ Ranch or the Kennedy Compound in Hyannis Port. That makes security "extraordinarily complicated," John D. Cohen of the Rutgers Institute for Emergency Preparedness and Homeland Security points out.
"Whenever the president travels anywhere, the local police have to provide support to the Secret Service," Cohen told NJ Advance Media. "Roads might be closed. The airspace has to be secured. As president, he can no longer just simply go to these properties and not have it dramatically impact the life and movement of the residents there."
Maybe the Secret Service should build a wall of some sort? Let's table that.
A timeline of Trump's 30 years in N.J.
We're confident the locals will find ways to adjust. For example, the Hispanic laborers who work in nearby horse farms seem alert to possible deportation raids in the stables, as "some are afraid to go to supermarkets" whenever Trump is around, one El Salvador emigre told the New York Times.
So the president is spending the summer in bucolic Somerset County. What's the worst that can happen? Just that Bedminsterites, who voted for Trump, might see a tax hike next year.
Really, it's a small price to pay. This might be the proudest moment a sitting president has ever bequeathed to the Garden State, unless you believe that story about Grover Cleveland contracting dysentery on a hiking trip and squatting for several hours near a creek in Princeton.
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