The town began fining Trump $1,250 a day on Jan. He later increased the damage demand to $25 million.
Trump sued the town in December 2006 for $10 million over repeated demands that he withdraw the pole.
The town said the flag was 15 times larger than the 4-by-6 flag allowed on a 42-foot pole. The work was done without a permit, and the height and location of the pole violated town ordinances. The story told on Facebook has nuggets of truth but gets some specifics wrong.Īccording to a March 30, 2013, story in the Palm Beach Post, Donald Trump was fined daily by the town of Palm Beach - not West Palm Beach - after he'd erected a flag in 2006 on an 80-foot pole in front of the exclusive Mar-a-Lago Club. Miles did not respond to a request that he provide the source of the information. He took 50 foot pole down and had a landscape company come in and build a 20 foot hill where the pole was and put up a 30 foot pole. He would lower the flag to a 30 foot pole if he could donate the $120,000 to the Veterans Affairs, to which they agreed. When the fine reached $120,000 he went to the city council and made a deal. They told him they would fine him $1,000 a day until he took it down. The City Council told him that he could only have a 30 foot pole but he refused to take it down. He put up a 50 foot flag pole and flew a US flag on it.
The caption states: "Before he was president, Trump bought an estate in West Palm Beach, Florida. This summer, Facebook user Clayton Owen Miles posted a photo of a flagpole rising above a golf course. The claim: Then-private citizen Donald J.