President-elect Donald Trump's Thanksgiving plans have been unveiled, offering a glimpse into how the incoming First Family will be spending the holiday this year.
According to Lara Trump, who is married to the President-elect's son Eric Trump, some members of the Trump family will be gathering at Donald Trump's estate in Florida, for Thanksgiving dinner this year.
"I believe there will be a dinner hosted at place called the Mar-a-Lago Club, probably go over there, have dinner with my father-in-law, Melania, Barron, whoever else in the family is around, I don't even know," she said on an episode of her show, The Right View.
However, she added that following the election, which Trump won by a decisive margin, the family are taking a "breather," meaning it is unclear if other members of the family will be joining them for dinner.
"We've all just sort of like taken a breather. I don't even know what the heck everybody else is doing. I assume some of the rest of the family will be over there," she said.
The Trumps have long made Mar-a-Lago their Thanksgiving destination, with the president-elect opting to spend the holiday away from there on only two recent occasions. The first was in 2019, when he traveled on Thanksgiving Day for a surprise visit to Bagram Airfield in Afghanistan, and again in 2020, when he remained at the White House.
It is not clear what will be served to the Trump's for Thanksgiving dinner this year, but according to reports, the family ate 24 dishes, including traditional favorites like turkey and pumpkin pie, as well as leg of lamb and grilled scallops, in 2016.
In 2017, the Trumps' Thanksgiving Day meal included turkey, stuffing, mashed potatoes and gravy, sweet potatoes with marshmallows, baked goods, local produce and cheeses, red snapper, Florida stone crab, and desserts including cakes and pies, a White House spokesperson said at the time.
The following year, The Trump's were served a feast of turkey, beef tenderloin, lamb, salmon, Chilean sea bass, red snapper, braised short ribs, whipped and sweet potatoes, stuffing, salad, deviled eggs, duck prosciutto, melon, Florida stone crab, oysters, jumbo shrimp and clams, according to news reports.
In previous years, the president-elect has reportedly opted to play a round of golf before heading back to his 17-acre estate for dinner.
During Trump's 2018 Thanksgiving visit to Mar-a-Lago, he threatened to close the U.S. border with Mexico because of the expected of arrival of a caravan of immigrants.
In his Thanksgiving message this year, the President-elect criticized "Radical Left Lunatics" for having "worked so hard to destroy our Country."
"Happy Thanksgiving to all including to the Radical Left Lunatics who have worked so hard to destroy our Country, but who have miserably failed, and will always fail, because their ideas and policies are so hopelessly bad that the great people of our Nation just gave a landslide victory to those who want to MAKE AMERICA GREAT AGAIN!" Trump wrote on Truth Social.
"Don't worry, our Country will soon be respected, productive, fair, and strong, and you will be, more than ever before, proud to be an American!"
In 2023, Trump used his holiday message to criticize New York Attorney General Letitia James, who had led the fraud prosecution against him. Judge Arthur Engoron would later order Trump to pay $350 million in penalties and ban him from doing business in New York for three years.
Newsweek has contacted representatives of the President-elect for comment.
Trump's former opponent Vice President Kamala Harris has not revealed what her plans are for Thanksgiving.
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