{"id":67122,"date":"2026-02-24T05:55:13","date_gmt":"2026-02-24T10:55:13","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/news2shorts.com\/index.php\/2026\/02\/24\/an-extension-of-his-administration-how-trumps-resorts-became-a-proxy-for-access-and-power\/"},"modified":"2026-02-24T05:55:13","modified_gmt":"2026-02-24T10:55:13","slug":"an-extension-of-his-administration-how-trumps-resorts-became-a-proxy-for-access-and-power","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/news2shorts.com\/index.php\/2026\/02\/24\/an-extension-of-his-administration-how-trumps-resorts-became-a-proxy-for-access-and-power\/","title":{"rendered":"\u2018An extension of his administration\u2019: how Trump\u2019s resorts became a proxy for access and power"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Elected officials visited Trump properties 145 times since his inauguration, records show<\/p>\n<p>Elected leaders from Israel to <a href=\"https:\/\/www.instagram.com\/p\/DQ0sXFIDX-X\/)\">Iowa<\/a> have visited Donald Trump\u2019s various properties 145 times since his inauguration last year, according to a new report by Citizens for Responsibility and Ethics in Washington (Crew), a political watchdog group.<\/p>\n<p>Trump\u2019s luxury resorts have offered the chief executive an unusual political arena \u2013 and a source of profit. A Guardian analysis of campaign finance records found that US political campaigns and committees spent at least $1.3m at Trump properties since January 2025.<\/p>\n<p> <a href=\"https:\/\/www.theguardian.com\/us-news\/2026\/feb\/24\/trump-luxury-resorts-properties\">Continue reading&#8230;<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Elected officials visited Trump properties 145 times since his inauguration, records show Elected leaders from Israel to Iowa have visited Donald Trump\u2019s various properties 145 times since his inauguration last year, according to a new report by Citizens for Responsibility and Ethics in Washington (Crew), a political watchdog group. Trump\u2019s luxury resorts have offered the &#8230; <a title=\"\u2018An extension of his administration\u2019: how Trump\u2019s resorts became a proxy for access and power\" class=\"read-more\" href=\"https:\/\/news2shorts.com\/index.php\/2026\/02\/24\/an-extension-of-his-administration-how-trumps-resorts-became-a-proxy-for-access-and-power\/\" aria-label=\"Read more about \u2018An extension of his administration\u2019: how Trump\u2019s resorts became a proxy for access and power\">Read more<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paid_content":false,"footnotes":""},"categories":[1],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-67122","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-blog"],"jetpack_featured_media_url":"","jetpack_sharing_enabled":true,"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/news2shorts.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/67122","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/news2shorts.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/news2shorts.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/news2shorts.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/news2shorts.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=67122"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/news2shorts.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/67122\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/news2shorts.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=67122"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/news2shorts.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=67122"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/news2shorts.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=67122"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}