Town attorney's final word: Trump can live at Mar-a-Lago as a 'bona fide employee' Some of the former president's neighbors had hoped to block him from living at Mar-a-Lago, citing a 1993 declaration of use agreement he signed with the town. Palm Beach Daily News When former President Donald Trump heads to his New Jersey golf club for the summer, he will leave his Palm Beach home with the legal right to live there. Turning aside arguments from neighbors who claim that Trump is not permitted to live at Mar-a-Lago based on a Declaration of Use agreement he signed with the town in 1993, Palm Beach Town Attorney John Randolph concluded that the agreement doesn't specifically prohibit the ex-president from residing at the club, Town Manager Kirk Blouin told the Daily News this week.