Yesterday in an interview with Fox News, Donald Trump gloated about his dinner with China’s President Xi at Mar-a-Lago, the private Trump-owned club in Palm Beach. In the midst of his story about telling Xi that he’d just ordered missiles to strike the Syrian air base, Trump bizarrely bragged that the conversation happened while they were enjoying the most “beautiful piece of chocolate cake that you've ever seen” at Mar-a-Lago. Always the promoter.
World leaders may want to reconsider meeting with Donald Trump after seeing this report. The Miami Herald reports the kitchen at Mar-a-Lago received 13 health code violations, some of them serious:
Just days before the state visit of Japanese Prime Minister Shinzo Abe to Mar-a-Lago, President Donald Trump’s Palm Beach private club, Florida restaurant inspectors found potentially dangerous raw fish and cited the club for storing food in two broken down coolers.
Inspectors found 13 violations at the fancy club’s kitchen, according to recently published reports — a record for an institution that charges $200,000 in initiation fees.
Three of the violations were deemed “high priority,” meaning that they could allow the presence of illness-causing bacteria on plates served in the dining room.
Gah! The “dangerous fish” violation would be enough to scare most away, but wait until you hear about the chicken and the ham:
▪ In two of the club’s coolers, inspectors found that raw meats that should be stored at 41 degrees were much too warm and potentially dangerous: chicken was 49 degrees, duck clocked in a 50 degrees and raw beef was 50 degrees. The winner? Ham at 57 degrees.
Mmm ... mmm! Who doesn’t love 57-degree raw ham? And just in time for Easter brunch, now featuring endless mimosas and a side of salmonella.