NY Times Profiled Trump’s Racist Birther Butler in March
The Trump campaign is busily denying now that his racist Birther ex-butler Anthony Senecal works at Trump’s Mar-a-Lago estate. “He hasn’t in many years,” they say.
Trump spox re: butler: “He does not work at mar-a-Lago and hasn’t in many years. We totally disavow and condemn these horrible statements.”
— Alexandra Jaffe (@ajjaffe) May 12, 2016
But oddly enough, this puff piece on Senecal from just a couple of months ago in the New York Times sure seems to imply otherwise: A King in His Castle: How Donald Trump Lives, From His Longtime Butler.
PALM BEACH, Fla. —Everything seemed to sparkle at the Mar-a-Lago estate here on a recent afternoon. The sun glinted off the pool and the black Secret Service S.U.V.s in the circular driveway. Palm trees rustled in a warm breeze, croquet balls clicked and a security guard stood at the entrance to Donald J. Trump’s private living quarters.
“You can always tell when the king is here,” Mr. Trump’s longtime butler here, Anthony Senecal, said of the master of the house and Republican presidential candidate.
The king was returning that day to his Versailles, a 118-room snowbird’s paradise that will become a winter White House if he is elected president. Mar-a-Lago is where Mr. Trump comes to escape, entertain and luxuriate in a Mediterranean-style manse, built 90 years ago by the cereal heiress Marjorie Merriweather Post.
Few people here can anticipate Mr. Trump’s demands and desires better than Mr. Senecal, 74, who has worked at the property for nearly 60 years, and for Mr. Trump for nearly 30 of them.
He understands Mr. Trump’s sleeping patterns and how he likes his steak (“It would rock on the plate, it was so well done”), and how Mr. Trump insists — despite the hair salon on the premises — on doing his own hair.
You’d think if Senecal hadn’t worked there for years, Trump would have asked the Times to print a correction, wouldn’t you?
And if you read this whole Times profile, you’ll also notice there isn’t a single word about the insanely extreme and hateful comments Mr. Senecal has been posting on Facebook for years.
