Joyful atmosphere at Trump's residence: "Life gets better"

Cheers for the president! Whistling, cheering, and a caravan of cars with enormous Trump flags. On the bridge to the future president's residence Mar-a-Lago in Florida, there is jubilation.

» Published: November 06 2024

Joyful atmosphere at Trump's residence: "Life gets better"
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Among those celebrating in the wind are Ambrea and Dice Hendersen from West Palm Beach.

We are here to show our support. All we want is closed borders and to be able to put food on the table for our children, they say in unison.

Nurse Ambrea Hendersen knows what she's talking about. She has six children and wants to be able to let them all study at university or college. But unlike her husband, who has voted for Trump three times in a row, she hasn't always liked the future president.

I didn't vote for him in 2016. But I noticed that life got better when he was in the White House – food costs, taxes, and gas prices, she explains.

Unity in victory

The couple dismisses the fact that Trump is sometimes accused of expressing himself in a racist manner.

Everyone talks about each other. What I care about is what he actually does. And as a black woman, I can say that he has done a lot for me, says Ambrea Hendersen.

Plus, I like his plans for the world and the border, her husband, who owns a car wash, chimes in.

A bit away from them, with Mar-a-Lago in sight, stand retired couple Annette and Mark Gratowski from Ohio. They have voted for Trump three times in a row and say they love the future president's "decisiveness and transparency".

The smiling couple showers praise on the future Vice President JD Vance and the Trump-allied super entrepreneur Elon Musk. The fact that the future president called his opponent names and insulted certain ethnic groups during the election campaign is shrugged off.

It's his way of pointing out weaknesses. Sometimes he goes a bit too far, but it's nothing strange, he's from New York. You have to look at what he does, says Annette Gratowski.

And in victory, there were no insults, he was unifying.

Singing loudly

At the bridge, American-Vietnamese T Tran, who works in the pharmaceutical industry in California, struggles to balance his giant flag. He has rewritten the lyrics to the Christmas carol "Joy to the World" and sings loudly:

Joy to the world, Trump is coming back.

He describes himself as a "hardworking taxpayer" who has worked voluntarily for the campaign.

Trump helps people and I want to help him, he says, adding that border policy was his most important election issue.

However, not everyone is celebrating in Palm Beach. Democrat Drew Martin, who works on environmental issues and is locally politically active, mourns the election result.

We haven't managed to get enough people to understand that Trump is a fascist. Now I fear the end of our democracy, culture, and lifestyle. And that all environmental regulations will be abolished.

Florida is a peninsula located at the southernmost tip of the US East Coast, with the Atlantic Ocean to the east and the Gulf of Mexico to the west. The capital is Tallahassee and Miami is the largest metropolitan area.

The state is the third most populous in the US, with over 22.5 million inhabitants. Many people of Latin American origin live here – more than a quarter are classified as Spanish-speaking Hispanics.

Florida has 30 electoral votes. The state was long seen as a swing state but has become increasingly conservative in recent years. Now the residents vote reliably Republican red. The US's future president Donald Trump wrote himself in here, at his property Mar-a-Lago in Palm Beach, in 2019.

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