Trump returns to Florida this weekend. Here's how, where to watch presidential motorcade
On Instagram, #TrumpMotorcade is a hashtag with videos of the presidential motorcade on various roadways.
- President Donald Trump is expected to return to his Mar-a-Lago residence in Palm Beach, Florida, the weekend of March 28, 2025.
- This visit follows a scandal involving Trump administration officials mistakenly adding a journalist to a group chat discussing military action in Yemen.
- Trump is expected to arrive March 28, 2025, and depart two days later, prompting potential gatherings of supporters and protesters along the motorcade route.
This weekend, President Donald Trump is expected to return to his Florida home in Palm Beach for the seventh time since his inauguration. It will be his eighth weekend in Florida since he took office in January.
And this week, he'll be arriving on the heels of a scandal involving security officials in his administration — including Florida's Marco Rubio and Mike Waltz — who mistakenly added a journalist to a group chat in which they were planning U.S. attacks on Iranian-backed forces in Yemen.
President Trump has spent all but two weekends of his presidency so far in the Sunshine State, spending last weekend at his private club in Bedminster, New Jersey, instead.
If you don’t know, Trump’s primary residence is at Mar-a-Lago, his club and resort in Palm Beach, Florida. During his first presidency, it was often referred to as the “Southern White House” or "Winter White House” because of the amount of time he spent here.
According to The Palm Beach Daily News and FAA temporary flight restrictions "for VIP movements" issued this week, Trump is expected to arrive in Palm Beach County on the evening of Friday, March 28, and leave on Sunday, March 30.
That means that Southern Boulevard in Palm Beach County will likely be lined with some Trump supporters, protestors and anyone else who wants to catch a glimpse of the presidential motorcade that will escort Trump to and from his Florida home on Friday and Sunday evenings.
Here’s how to watch the presidential motorcade in Palm Beach this weekend.
Where is Trump today? Here's when President Trump is expected back in Florida
President Trump is anticipated to arrive in Florida sometime after 3:45 p.m. EST Friday, March 28, and is expected to leave sometime before 6:30 p.m. Sunday, March 30, according to The Palm Beach Daily News and the FAA’s temporary flight restrictions.
When the president is in Palm Beach, the roads surrounding Mar-a-Lago shut down.
"Ahead of Trump's expected arrival, South Ocean Boulevard next to his Mar-a-Lago Club will shut down between South County Road and the Southern Boulevard traffic circle. The town sends an alert 24 hours before the road closes to give drivers time to plan alternate routes," The Palm Beach Daily News reported on Tuesday, March 25.
"Palm Beach County is no stranger to presidential-level flight restrictions, which took effect each time Trump visited Palm Beach during his first term."
What is the Signal leak?
The messaging app Signal is at the crux of a recent leak in which messages between top officials in the Trump administration were sent in a group chat that included a journalist, The Atlantic first reported on Monday, March 24.
“U.S. national-security leaders included me in a group chat about upcoming military strikes in Yemen,” The Atlantic Editor-in-Chief Jeffrey Goldberg wrote in his Monday article. “I didn’t think it could be real. Then the bombs started falling.”
The AP then reported that the National Security Council said the messages appeared “to be authentic.” Goldberg said he received the Signal invitation from Mike Waltz, President Donald Trump's national security advisor and former U.S. Representative from Florida.
Defense Secretary Pete Hegseth, who was in the text chain, told reporters “Nobody was texting war plans and that’s all I have to say about that.”
On Tuesday afternoon, President Trump doubled down, insisting that no classified information was shared in the Signal chat, Paste BN reported live as the National Security Council investigated the incident.
"Waltz also lashed out on Tuesday at Goldberg," Paste BN reported. "Telling reporters he’s never met The Atlantic’s editor-in-chief and will investigate how he mistakenly invited him into a Signal chat group with other Trump officials."
Later Tuesday night, Waltz backtracked on his claim that he wasn't to blame for the group chat mistake, telling FOX News that he takes "full responsibility" for the chat that included The Atlantic editor, who he still says he doesn't know outside of his "horrible reputation."
"I take full responsibility. I built the group," Waltz said on FOX's "The Ingraham Angle" Tuesday night. "It's embarrassing. We're going to get to the bottom of it."
This is a developing story, you can find live updates with Paste BN here.
Where does Donald Trump live in Florida?
The Mar-a-Lago resort and club in Palm Beach has been the primary residence of Donald, Melania and Barron Trump since 2019.
In 1985, Donald Trump paid $10 million for the 17-acre estate that is now Mar-a-Lago. It originally boasted 33 bathrooms, three bomb shelters and a nine-hole golf course.
Ten years later, Trump updated the already-luxurious estate and converted it into an even more ritzy private "Mar-a-Lago Club" with a spa, tennis and croquet courts, ballroom and a beach club.
The size of the living quarters at Mar-a-Lago are speculated to be somewhere between 2,000 and 3,000 square feet. The private club has around 500 members. The ballroom was completed in 2005.
What city in Florida is Mar-a-Lago in? Here’s a map
The Mar-a-Lago resort and club is in Palm Beach, Florida, and sits just about 15 minutes away from the Palm Beach International airport (PBI).
How, when, where to watch Trump's presidential motorcade to, from Mar-a-Lago
If you want to see Donald Trump when he's in Palm Beach County, your best shot is to watch the presidential motorcade en route to or from the Palm Beach International Airport this weekend.
Watching the motorcade is kind of like watching a rocket launch lift off from NASA's Kennedy Space Center or the Cape Canaveral Space Force Station in Brevard County. People from Palm Beach County and beyond often line up along Southern Boulevard and wait to watch Trump's motorcade pass by.
Trump supporters usually line up along Southern Boulevard going east toward Mar-a-Lago. If you don’t know, Southern Boulevard is the main road next to PBI, where Trump typically flies into the airstrip designated for private planes.
Even when he wasn’t president, you could sometimes see people parked on the side of the road near the airport, looking at his private plane which said “Trump” in big, gold letters.
In 2019, before the COVID-19 pandemic, thousands of Trump supporters would line up on Southern Boulevard to watch the Trump motorcade, which typically has from 15 to 20 cars in it. You can drive by Mar-a-Lago, too. But the property is private, so you can’t visit the actual club unless you’re a member.
The main entrance to Mar-a-Lago is on South Ocean Boulevard in Palm Beach. You can park and walk by, but you'll be in the roadway.
It isn’t uncommon for people to pull over their cars to catch a view of the famous club. It is dangerous, though, because there is no sidewalk, and there's no shoulder on the side of the road next to the private club.
It's important to remember that the roads surrounding Mar-a-Lago close when the president is in town. If you want a glimpse of his private club, you'll have to wait until after he leaves Florida. The best place to watch the motorcade pass is along Southern Boulevard, near the Palm Beach International Airport.
Contributing: Jodie Wagner, The Palm Beach Daily News