How many times did Donald J. Trump visit Mar-a-Lago each year from 2017 to 2020 and 2021 to 2024?
Executive summary
Available reporting does not provide an exact, year-by-year count of every visit Donald J. Trump made to Mar‑a‑Lago for 2017–2020 and 2021–2024. Multiple investigative and local outlets offer totals and milestones: Citizens for Responsibility and Ethics in Washington reported 134 Mar‑a‑Lago visits through September 2020 (covering his first term) [1]; CREW later counted 100 Mar‑a‑Lago visits in 1,041 days as president, marking that milestone in April 2025 [2]. Local Palm Beach coverage confirms “more than 30” visits to Palm Beach County from 2017–2021 and three trips over Thanksgiving during the first term in some accounts, but none of the provided sources supply a precise annual breakdown for each year requested [3] [4] [5].
1. The public tallies reporters have used — totals, not annual breakdowns
Investigative groups and local papers produce cumulative tallies rather than neat year-by‑year lists. CREW’s 2020 analysis said Trump had visited Mar‑a‑Lago 134 times by September 2020, a figure reporters have cited as a summary of his first term’s activity [1]. A later CREW update noted Trump hit “100 visits” in 1,041 days as president — a milestone framed in April 2025 reporting — which underscores shifts in how visits are counted and reported over time [2]. These totals confirm heavy use of Mar‑a‑Lago but do not break visits into calendar years in the supplied material [1] [2].
2. Local Palm Beach outlets confirm frequent, seasonal patterns but not precise annual counts
Palm Beach Post and Palm Beach Daily News reporting document patterns — Trump often spent weekends at Mar‑a‑Lago from November through Easter and made “more than 30” trips to Palm Beach County during his first term — but they stop short of producing a per‑year ledger in the excerpts provided [3] [6]. Palm Beach Post pieces also note specific holiday trips (e.g., Thanksgiving) and memorable visits (Super Bowl weekend, visits by foreign leaders), supplying color and partial counts rather than a year‑by‑year accounting [7] [8] [4].
3. Why a clean annual breakdown is hard to assemble from these sources
Public and press counts rely on varied methods: watchdog groups track presidential movements and government protection costs; local reporters log closures, flight restrictions and event coverage; official visitor logs for private properties are limited by law and administration practice. CREW and news outlets publish cumulative or seasonal figures (134 visits through Sept. 2020; “more than 30” Palm Beach County visits 2017–2021), but the sources here do not provide a list of dates that can be unambiguously totaled into per‑year tallies [1] [3] [2].
4. Competing perspectives and limits of the sources
Watchdog groups emphasize transparency and taxpayer cost, presenting large totals to criticize frequency and expense [1] [2]. Local newspapers focus on community impact — road closures, flight restrictions and social season timing — providing context but not comprehensive logs [9] [10]. Government records that could produce authoritative annual counts (e.g., Secret Service movement logs, complete flight restriction notices, or a fully disclosed schedule) are either not cited in these sources or are described as incomplete or legally contested in the public record [11] [2].
5. What the available sources do and do not state directly
Available sources state cumulative visit totals and recurring patterns — 134 visits by Sept. 2020 [1], “more than 30” Palm Beach County visits through his first term [3], and CREW’s 100‑visit milestone framed in 1,041 days [2]. Available sources do not mention an authoritative, source‑verified annual count for 2017, 2018, 2019, 2020 or for 2021–2024 broken down by individual year; they do not supply a definitive table of visits per calendar year (not found in current reporting) [1] [2] [3].
6. How you could get a year‑by‑year answer (next steps)
To produce the precise annual tallies you requested, seek primary logs: Secret Service movement or travel records, FAA temporary flight restriction notices correlated to presidential stays, or a vetted dataset from a watchdog that lists visit dates. The sources here document patterns and totals but do not provide the detailed date list necessary to compute visits per year [11] [12].
Limitations: This analysis cites only the provided sources and therefore reflects what they report; it does not invent annual counts absent in those sources [1] [2] [3].