It was 6:05 a.m. in October last year when Sterling Hamill was awoken by the unmistakable screech of a plane flying low over his home. The 86-year-old retired businessman had moved 11 years earlier from a home near Mar-a-Lago, Donald Trump’s luxury club in Palm Beach, Florida, to avoid the noise of aircraft.
At first, Mr Hamill dismissed the shuddering vibrations as a one-off. Mr Trump has spent around a month at Mar-a-Lago, known as the Winter White House, each year since he made the Florida resort his official residence in 2019.
