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Mar-a-Lago: Power, Access, Influence examines how a private club in Palm Beach became a case study in contemporary American power dynamics. Through careful analysis of membership structures, visibility mechanisms, and social signaling systems, the series explores how places function as operational infrastructure for influence when traditional institutional constraints are bypassed or reimagined. Host Cleo Knight provides incisive examination of how proximity converts to utility, how documentation transforms power rather than constraining it, and how commercial access models coexist with ...

To know Donald J. Trump - to understand what makes the 45th president of the US tick - it is best to start in his natural habitat: Palm Beach, Florida. It is here he learned the techniques that took him all the way to the White House. Painstakingly, over decades, he has created a world in this exclusive tropical enclave and favorite haunt of billionaires where he is not just president but a king. The vehicle for his triumph is Mar-a-Lago, one of the greatest mansions ever built in the US.