@EdithBond
Mar a Lago is the dodgy side of Palm Beech.
Nobody from actual Palm Beech would be caught dead there.
"the highest echelons of the Palm Beach season, like parties Mar a Lago
This is so wrong I don't even know where to start.
Parties in Mar a Lago are more like The Only Way is Essex than an upper class thing.
Palm Beech itself is, and always was, a very rich Protestant enclave (WASP). The people who have houses there, and who go for the "season" are so rich we don't know their names. They are those gazillionaire, generational wealth, American families who spend a lot of money to make sure they are never heard of. They socialize among themselves and have a closed shop, much like aristocracy here.
No Jews, Catholics, Blacks, Latinos, nouveau riche, working classes, middle class etc. were allowed join their country clubs in the past, and I suspect that it is still quite exclusionary. They probably set an entrance palaver that would be hard to accomplish, like a variety of nominations and a terrifying fee structure, or some such.
Over the years, other groups created their own enclaves in Palm Beech - the Jewish community opened their own country clubs, and now have a strong, and extremely wealthy community there (like the Peltz family). Ditto other groups.
Mar a Lago is not only not any of the above, but it is quite a drive away. About 45 minutes.
As with everything Trump - it is almost but not quite.
And the devil is very much in the details...