Trump’s Butler Opens Up About How ‘The King’ Lives


Donald Trump’s butler opened up this week about how the leading Republican candidate lives while at his 118-room Palm Beach mansion.

“You can always tell when the king is here,” says Anthony Senecal, Trump’s personal butler.

Senecal, 74, told the New York Times that he’s familiar with nearly all of Trump’s personal habits; from his sleep patterns to how he prefers his steaks cooked (extremely well done.)

He also mentions how Trump prefers to do his own hair despite there being a hair salon located on the property.

Senecal has worked on the Mar-a-Lago property for almost 60 years and with Trump for close to 30 of them.

Over the years He’s also served as Trump’s personal champion.

“Senecal knows how to stroke his ego and lift his spirits, like the time years ago he received an urgent warning from Mr. Trump’s soon-to-land plane that the mogul was in a sour mood,” the story reads.

Senecal said in that case he hired a bugler to play “Hail to the Chief” when Trump walked out of his limousine to help please his boss.

Interestingly, the butler’s revelations show not only Trump’s peculiarities, but also his “habitual, self-soothing exaggerations.”

For example, Senecal says, Trump often lies about how far he can drive a golf ball.

The story also reports how Trump often falsely tells guests that his eldest daughter, Ivanka, slept in a room with nursery rhyme-themed tiles that were painted by a young Walt Disney.

Senecal also dishes on Trump’s three wives. He claimed that Melania is “exceptionally compassionate,” but said his second wife Marla Maples, “really didn’t belong here.”

He claimed that first wife Ivana was “an especially demanding presence.”

“She would occasionally tell Mr. Senecal to have the gardeners go inside because she wanted to swim naked in the pool,” the story reads.

Finally, while Senecal tried to retire in 2009, Trump deemed that he was “irreplaceable” and was relieved of his butler duties but has been kept around as an “unofficial historian” at the estate.

“Tony, to retire is to expire,” Trump said to him. “I’ll see you next season.”

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