Mar-a-Lago's Post-Election Membership Fee Increase
What happened
promisedocumented At Trump's January 2017 press conference, counsel for the Trump Organization said the arrangement would isolate him from the business, bar new foreign deals and donate foreign-government hotel profits to the Treasury.
- Time: Read a Transcript of Donald Trump's Press Conference on Conflicts of Interest2017-01-11 · Sheri Dillon remarks: no new foreign deals, limited information rights, compliance counsel, and donation of foreign-government hotel profits
- U.S. House Committee on Oversight and Government Reform: Oversight Committee Requests Documents on Trump Organization's Treatment of Foreign Government Payments2017-04-21 · Bipartisan committee letter describing the January pledge and requesting implementation records
actionreported Mar-a-Lago raised its initiation fee after the election, restoring it to a level the club had charged before the recession.
- CNN Money: Trump-owned Mar-a-Lago hikes prices as membership nears cap2017-01-26 · Club manager confirmation, fee history and effective date
outcomereported The club manager confirmed the fee history and cited strong demand, but the number of memberships sold at the new price was not reported.
- CNN Money: Trump-owned Mar-a-Lago hikes prices as membership nears cap2017-01-26 · Club manager confirmation, fee history and effective date
limitationreported The timing does not by itself establish how much revenue was attributable to Trump's office rather than market demand or restoration of a prior rate.
- CNN Money: Trump-owned Mar-a-Lago hikes prices as membership nears cap2017-01-26 · Club manager confirmation, fee history and effective date
People and organizations
- United States publicaffected party
- Mar-a-Lago Clubbeneficiary
- New Mar-a-Lago memberspayer
- Mar-a-Lago Clubrecipient
Assessment
The post-election fee increase is documented and financially relevant to a Trump-owned club, but the record supports temporal association rather than a quantified office-derived profit.