Trump Allegedly Fumigated Mar-a-Lago After Man Dying of AIDS Visited

A new book claims that Donald Trump had Mar-a-Lago fumigated after a man with HIV/AIDS visited the luxury resort.

The Fixers, by journalists Joe Palazzolo and Michael Rothfeld, recounts the relationship between President Trump and a number of his “fixers,” per Newsweek. Among these was Roy Cohn, a controversial attorney who represented everyone from celebrities to mob bosses, including, at one point, Trump.

Though known for publicly outing government employees in the LGBTQ community, Cohn’s “homosexuality and promiscuity were an open secret,” according to the book. He ultimately died from AIDS in 1986, while publicly declaring he was battling liver cancer.

Shortly before Cohn’s death, Trump hosted “what seemed like a farewell dinner at Mar-a-Lago” for guests to pay “tribute to the dying lawyer.”

And only three weeks before he became president, Palazzolo and Rothfeld allege that Trump recounted the tale of Cohn’s visit while making plans for his administration at Mar-a-Lago.

“This [memory] perhaps was evoked by the resort and Cohn’s last visit there a few months before he died of AIDS. Trump recalled to his guests that after Cohn had left, ‘I had to spend a fortune to fumigate all the dishes and silverware.’”

Whether he actually did or just claimed he did is unclear, but it’s undoubtedly an astoundingly distasteful joke to make, particularly in 2016 when so much more information is known about HIV/AIDS than it was in 1986.

Neither President Trump nor the White House has commented on the allegations as of yet.