Trump expected to return to Mar-a-Lago after DC shooting incident

• President Donald Trump is expected to return to his Mar-a-Lago Club in Palm Beach from May 1-2.
• This would mark his first visit to Palm Beach since authorities said they subdued an armed man who charged a security checkpoint at the White House Correspondents' Association Dinner on April 25.
• The trip would be Trump's 27th visit to Palm Beach since beginning his second term in January 2025.

It appears President Donald Trump will return to Palm Beach and the confines of his private Mar-a-Lago Club, roughly a week after federal authorities stopped what could have been another attempt on his life.

Presidential-level flight restrictions will be issued for the airspace over Palm Beach County from May 1-2, according to new notices issued by the Boca Raton Airport Authority and the Federal Aviation Administration. While the notices do not mention Trump by name, such advisories have become reliable indicators of the president's travel plans.

The airport authority noted that flight restrictions are subject to last-minute changes.

This would mark Trump's first visit home since the White House Correspondents' Association Dinner on April 25, when law enforcement officials say a man with multiple weapons charged a security checkpoint near the ballroom where the event was taking place in Washington, D.C. Trump, first lady Melania Trump, and many Cabinet members and administration officials were in attendance with journalists and celebrities for the annual event at the Washington Hilton.

The man, identified by authorities as 31-year-old Cole Tomas Allen, of Torrance, California, was detained and scheduled to appear before a judge the morning of April 27. One officer was shot but the bullet hit his bulletproof vest, Trump said in a press briefing at the White House soon after the incident.

Trump had left Palm Beach earlier April 25 after spending the night at Mar-a-Lago, where he delivered the keynote address at the gala luncheon for a cryptocurrency conference being held at his club.

A separate FAA notice indicates Trump will also travel to conservative stronghold The Villages in Central Florida on May 1. The notice does not say why or when Trump will be there.

Yet another FAA notice indicates that after leaving Palm Beach, Trump will head to Miami May 2-3. His Trump National Doral Golf Club is hosting the PGA Tour's Cadillac Championship, which runs April 29 to May 3.

The anticipated Palm Beach visit would follow Trump's meeting this week with King Charles III and Queen Camilla in Washington. It is the first state visit by a British monarch since 2007.

The coastal road next to Mar-a-Lago has remained closed to through-traffic since it was shut down indefinitely March 3. That's when the U.S. Secret Service ordered South Ocean Boulevard closed between the Southern Boulevard traffic circle and South Ocean Boulevard around the clock, including when Trump is not at Mar-a-Lago.

Before the latest road-closure policy was put into place, South Ocean typically closed at 5 a.m. on the day that Trump was expected to arrive in Palm Beach.

Should Trump travel to Palm Beach this coming weekend, it would mark his 27th visit to the island since taking office Jan. 20, 2025, for his second term as president.

Trump and first lady Melania Trump declared Mar-a-Lago their permanent residence in 2019.

Kristina Webb is a reporter for Palm Beach Daily News, part of the USA TODAY Florida Network. You can reach her at [email protected]. Subscribe today to support our journalism.