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    Trump Advocates For Public Service On MLK Day, But Spends It At Mar-A-Lago Resort

    Past presidents have honored the civil rights leader's birthday by helping out at libraries or homeless shelters but Preisdent Trump chose to spend the day at his Florida resort.
    by Vanessa Romo Jan 15, 2018 2 minutes
    President Trump spent the Martin Luther King Jr. holiday at his Mar-A-Lago resort in Palm Beach, Fla. Previous presidents have marked the holiday doing volunteer work.

    Updated at 1:40 a.m. ET Tuesday

    Some members of the Trump administration started off the holiday honoring Martin Luther King Jr. at a wreath-laying ceremony at the civil rights leader's memorial in Washington Monday. But the president's first stop was his own golf club.

    Trump signed a federal holiday proclamation at the White House on Friday

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