Special US messenger Steve Witkoff (right), talks to German national security counselor Jens Plotner (left), at the beginning of a meeting at the Elysee Presidential Palace on April 17, 2025. Photo: Ludovic Marin / Pool / Bestimage / Profimedia
Received by the French President Emmanuel Macron for discussions on the conflict in Ukraine, the special broadcast of the US President for Russia, Steve Witkoff, made a comparison at least surprising, considering that the Élysée Palace “resembles Donald Trump's club in Mar-A-Lago,” Le Figaro writes.
The head of American diplomacy, Marco Rubio, and Witkoff were in Paris on Thursday.
The State of Play: Steve Witkoff Compares l'élysée Palace in Paris to Donald Trump's Mar-Lago Residence in Florida.
“It is fabulous what it looks like. He (Trump) actually Works on it Himself. He's like an architect.”
pic.twitter.com/77shn6vw9d– Jorge Liboreiro (@jorgelibireiro) April 17, 2025
Witkoff's comparison has sparked reactions on the Social network X, users rightly stressing that the Élysée Palace was built between 1718 and 1720, while Donald Trump's private residence was built in the 1920s, notes News.ro.
“Only a totally unlicensed ignorant could compare the Élysée Palace, an architectural and artistic jewel of the eighteenth-century France, with Trump's house from Mar-A-Lago, which has a total insipid and kitsch style, without any class,” wrote a user of the platform.
Located in West Palm Beach, Florida, Donald Trump's property has become a private club open to the richest people in the world.
The residence was bought in 1985 by Republican, at that time a real estate tycoon in New York. It then transformed the villa, which covers almost 6,000 square meters, into a private club reserved for 500 members.
In order to become a member, an entry fee of $ 1 million, plus $ 20,000, an annual contribution, must be paid. Donald Trump also receives his foreign counterparts on his property at Mar-A-Lago, nicknamed the “White Winter House”.
At the end of January, Italian Prime Minister Giorgia Meloni paid an unofficial visit to the American president at his prestigious residence.
