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Former President Donald Trump’s sprawling Florida mansion and club, Mar-a-Lago, will be just fine as Hurricane Milton sweeps over the area — because it’s tethered to a coral reef, experts said.

Trump’s official home in Palm Beach was designed to be storm-proof — made with reinforced concrete, 3-foot-thick walls and steel anchors holding the structure to the coral reef below it, the Palm Beach Post reported.

It’s also located on the Sunshine State’s east coast, opposite from where the storm is expected to make landfall early Thursday.


  Trump’s sprawling Florida mansion and club Mar-a-Lago will be just fine as Hurricane Milton sweeps over the area. AP Trump’s sprawling Florida mansion and club Mar-a-Lago will be just fine as Hurricane Milton sweeps over the area. AP

Mar-a-Lago has remained standing after every hurricane that’s wreaked havoc on South Florida’s coast since 1928 —with Trump’s longtime butler once declaring there’s no spot he’d rather be during a catastrophic event.

“This place will not move,” late butter Tony Senecal said in 2005. “That’s why, during a hurricane, you’ll always see me here. If it goes, I’ll go with it.”

The historic club has been hit with relatively minor damage from hurricanes in recent years, including a torn up roof from Hurricane Irma in September 2017.

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It has also suffered uprooted trees and broken windows as nearby streets were flooded.

“We lost a lot of the vegetation that gave Mar-a-Lago its character,” Trump told The Palm Beach Post after Hurricane Frances in 2004. “I wasn’t there for the storm, but I’ve been told by my people there that it re-landscaped the place. There was a little flooding in some of the basements, too.”

Fort Lauderdale-based architect Tamara Peacock, who restored Mar-a-Lago’s original windows in the 1990s, said the building is in good shape to withstand the storm.

“I’ve seen quite a number of historic houses during my career,” Peacock said in 2016. “It’s the most well-built.”

Trump and his family will not be in the Palm Beach area when the storm makes landfall early Thursday, according to the Palm Beach Post.

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