Mar-a-Lago was just another private club in Palm Beach, Florida, when Donald Trump bought the property and turned it into a gilded palace. Now, for a recently raised initiation fee of two hundred thousand dollars and annual dues of fourteen thousand dollars, members have a chance to rub elbows with the President, and watch him deal with global crises in the club’s dining room. The New Yorker’s Lizzie Widdicombe and the radio producer Steven Valentino travel to Palm Beach to speak with self-styled Democratic resisters by the pool and attend a benefit at Mar-a-Lago, where they sample Trump wine and wait for the President to show.