Mar-A-Lago is getting a makeover as Secret Service agents asked about permanent transfers to Florida
Renovations are reportedly underway at Donald Trump’s Florida residence, Mar-A-Lago, as the president prepares to depart the White House.
The president will leave the executive mansion when president-elect Joe Biden assumes power on 20 January, and has been rumoured to be swapping Washington DC for his Palm Beach resort when the time came.
While he stopped-short of conceding on Monday, Mr Trump said he supported the transition process, and that government must "do what needs to be done” to assist the president-elect.
Sources close to the matter told ABC News that Mr Trump will relocate along with several Secret Service agents to a renovated Mar-A-Lago, which the president has described in the past as “the winter White House”.
Agents in the president's detail were reportedly asked whether they would move to the residence in Palm Beach, where renovations have started to take place in rooms that he and first lady Melania will live in.
Mr Trump, a born and raised New Yorker who lived in the city until he became president, changed his residency to Florida last year and has voted in the state. He will be required to spend at least six months a year at Mar-A-Lago to maintain residency status.
On that basis, the 74-year-old is expected to spend the remainder of the year at his golf club in Bedminster, New Jersey, and at his Manhattan penthouse.
A spokesperson for the Secret Service told ABC News: "For operational security reasons, the Secret Service does not discuss specifically or in general terms the means, methods or resources we utilize to carry out our protective mission."
A Trump Organisation spokesperson declined to comment to ABC.
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