OMG and LOL!

Tony Senecal no longer brings Donald Trump breakfast, presses his suits or restocks his Diet-Coke stash at Mar-a-Lago in Palm Beach. He retired in 2009. But the billionaire’s former butler still spends his days in gilded splendor.

Senecal is working at a West Palm Beach antique showroom, where he can meander beneath dozens of chandeliers, stop to admire a 19th Century relic of neoclassical France, and pause to catch his reflection in an ornate, Louis XVI-style mirror.

Best of all for a loyal ex-butler now enjoying his 15 minutes of fame, thanks to the global spotlight on Trumpian tangents during the 2016 presidential race, Senecal can linger in Mar-a-Lago memories.

“Those were the best years of my life,” says Senecal, who now serves as the estate’s historian.

At 74, he is a man of many lives. A native of upstate New York, he once worked as a schoolteacher. He owned a cigar shop. He took off a couple of his butler years to run for and serve as mayor of Martinsburg, a small city in West Virginia where he made headlines for his failed attempt to impose a licensing fee on “wino” panhandlers.

And but for a twist of fate, he might have gone off to serve another strongman-in-the-making. It’s what brought him to Palm Beach in the first place as a revolution churned in Cuba: A teenage Senecal was to meet about a dozen other guys at a local bar and plot a secret mission to join Fidel Castro’s rebels.

“But no one showed up,” he recalls.

He did have some luck at another bar, where he met a security guard for cereal heir Marjorie Merriweather Post. That contact help him score a chance to join the staff at Mar-a-Lago, the iconic oceanfront mansion Post built in 1927. Fate may have denied Senecal a role as foot soldier in the Cuban mountains, but not one as footman at Mar-a-Lago.

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oh, it would be too perfect if Senecal was a friend in arms of Ted Cruz’s dad back in the day…