Trump Holds Court in Mar-a-Lago, Insists GOP Bow to His Will Bloomberg 3/12/2021 Mark Niquette and Billy House (Bloomberg) -- Donald Trump is building a political operation to lead the Republican Party from his Mar-a-Lago resort, but the former president is clashing with other Republicans as he seeks to do it entirely on his terms. Trump’s Florida estate has become the center of gravity for the GOP, with political operatives and politicians waiting around to get a meeting with him and holding fundraisers in hopes he’ll attend. At the same time, party leaders have gone there to persuade him -- so far in vain -- to put winning a GOP majority in Congress in 2022 over retaliating against Republicans who opposed him.