In 1993, Donald Trump took on the political establishment of Palm Beach, Florida, and took from that experience a blueprint for the future.
This formative political campaign started with a business proposition. The town council of Palm Beach had recently turned down Trump's plan to build eight homes that he planned to sell on his 17-acre Mar-a-Lago estate in Palm Beach. Trump, who had bought the estate from cereal heiress Marjorie Merriweather Post in 1985, had looked at the development plan as one way out of his infamous early 1990s financial troubles, which included four business bankruptcies and millions of dollars lost for his investors.
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