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President Trump¹ has spent a good part of his first hundred days at Mar-a-Lago, the private club he owns in Florida, mingling² with the paying customers, playing golf. As summer arrives, Florida grows hot, and attention may turn to another Trump property in Bedminster, N.J., a sleepy town now preparing for a lot of attention. NPR's Joel Rose reports.

JOEL ROSE, BYLINE³: This is New Jersey⁴ horse country, open fields and forests. And just down the road is Trump National Golf Club - Bedminster. The front gates to the former estate of automaker John DeLorean are understated. If you don't know what you're looking for, you could drive right by them.

DORENE LONGELL: Originally, people came out here from New York because they used to want to do riding and that. And they wanted to be in the country that reminded them of England or a quieter place.

ROSE: Dorene Longell is co-owner of the Bedminster Florist⁵. It's on the quaint⁶ Main Street in this rural town about an hour west of Midtown, Manhattan. Longell voted for Trump, and she says a lot of her neighbors in this Republican-dominated area did too.

LONGELL: We like having him. I like having him. How many people in the United States can say - oh, the president has a home in my backyard?

ROSE: The residents of West Palm Beach can, and some aren't as enthusiastic as Dorene Longell. Many in Florida will be relieved when the president's Mar-a-Lago Club closes for the season, bringing an end to traffic and other headaches associated with his frequent visits. But in Bedminster, some local merchants are thrilled about having the weekend White House in town. Steve Desiderio owns a deli and catering⁷ business on Main Street.

STEVE DESIDERIO: When he was in town, it really helped the business with a lot of the Secret Service and the reporters and people coming in.

ROSE: Bedminster got this preview in November, when the Trump transition team spent a weekend interviewing potential Cabinet members at his golf club. The small Bedminster Township Police force went into full gear, directing traffic and preparing for big crowds. And some residents worry about what would happen if the president visits Bedminster as often as he went to Florida.

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JANE SCHUMANN: I have a concern.

ROSE: Jane Schumann spoke⁸ at a township meeting in March. Schumann says she has friends in West Palm Beach who complained that their taxes may go up because of the president's frequent visits.

SCHUMANN: I just think it's extremely unfair if the burden becomes a Bedminster taxpayer⁹ burden.

ROSE: Bedminster is looking to the federal government for help. In December, the town's mayor, Steve Parker, sent a letter to his congressman¹⁰ that estimated the cost of police overtime¹¹ for the president's anticipated visits this summer at roughly $300,000.

STEVE PARKER: We haven't gotten anything concrete. We're still waiting to see how that's going to work. But it's not for a lack of asking on our part.

ROSE: Parker hopes the overall impact on the town will be minor¹². But he expects that his own business will take a hit. Parker's day job is running the local airport, and he knows that there's a no-fly zone around any sitting president. What Parker doesn't know is how often the president will be coming or what kind of reception he'll get when he does.

PARKER: Are we going to get crowds that are going to come out that are going to want to camp out in front of the golf course or not? I don't know yet. I kind of hope not because I think we'd just like to keep things as quiet as things usually are in Bedminster.

ROSE: At least Parker won't have to wait long to find out. Mar-a-Lago temporarily shuts down next month as many of its members plan to summer elsewhere. Joel Rose, NPR News, Bedminster, N.J.

 

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1 trump   

n.王牌，法宝；v.打出王牌，吹喇叭

参考例句：

• He was never able to trump up the courage to have a showdown.他始终鼓不起勇气摊牌。
• The coach saved his star player for a trump card.教练保留他的明星选手，作为他的王牌。

2 mingling   

adj.混合的

参考例句：

• There was a spring of bitterness mingling with that fountain of sweets. 在这个甜蜜的源泉中间，已经掺和进苦涩的山水了。
• The mingling of inconsequence belongs to us all. 这场矛盾混和物是我们大家所共有的。

3 byline   

n.署名；v.署名

参考例句：

• His byline was absent as well.他的署名也不见了。
• We wish to thank the author of this article which carries no byline.我们要感谢这篇文章的那位没有署名的作者。

4 jersey   

n.运动衫

参考例句：

• He wears a cotton jersey when he plays football.他穿运动衫踢足球。
• They were dressed alike in blue jersey and knickers.他们穿着一致，都是蓝色的运动衫和灯笼短裤。

5 florist   

n.花商；种花者

参考例句：

• The florist bunched the flowers up.花匠把花捆成花束。
• Could you stop at that florist shop over there?劳驾在那边花店停一下好不好？

6 quaint   

adj.古雅的，离奇有趣的，奇怪的

参考例句：

• There were many small lanes in the quaint village.在这古香古色的村庄里，有很多小巷。
• They still keep some quaint old customs.他们仍然保留着一些稀奇古怪的旧风俗。

7 catering   

n. 给养

参考例句：

• Most of our work now involves catering for weddings. 我们现在的工作多半是承办婚宴。
• Who did the catering for your son's wedding? 你儿子的婚宴是由谁承办的？

8 spoke   

n.（车轮的）辐条；轮辐；破坏某人的计划；阻挠某人的行动 v.讲，谈（speak的过去式）；说；演说；从某种观点来说

参考例句：

• They sourced the spoke nuts from our company.他们的轮辐螺帽是从我们公司获得的。
• The spokes of a wheel are the bars that connect the outer ring to the centre.辐条是轮子上连接外圈与中心的条棒。

9 taxpayer   

n.纳税人

参考例句：

• The new scheme will run off with a lot of the taxpayer's money.这项新计划将用去纳税人许多钱。
• The taxpayer are unfavourably disposed towards the recent tax increase.纳税者对最近的增加税收十分反感。

10 Congressman   

n.（美）国会议员

参考例句：

• He related several anecdotes about his first years as a congressman.他讲述自己初任议员那几年的几则轶事。
• The congressman is meditating a reply to his critics.这位国会议员正在考虑给他的批评者一个答复。

11 overtime   

adj.超时的，加班的；adv.加班地

参考例句：

• They are working overtime to finish the work.为了完成任务他们正在加班加点地工作。
• He was paid for the overtime he worked.他领到了加班费。

12 minor   

adj.较小(少)的，较次要的；n.辅修学科；vi.辅修

参考例句：

• The young actor was given a minor part in the new play.年轻的男演员在这出新戏里被分派担任一个小角色。
• I gave him a minor share of my wealth.我把小部分财产给了他。