Trump Tower Evicts Secret Service: Report

MIDTOWN MANHATTAN, NY — In a strange, childlike power dance that could really only materialize in the era of Donald Trump, the president's real estate company has evicted his U.S. Secret Service detail from the unit below his penthouse in Trump Tower on Fifth Avenue, according to the Washington Post.

Sometime last month, Secret Service agents were reportedly forced to relocate their command post to a trailer on the sidewalk.

“After much consideration, it was mutually determined that it would be more cost effective and logistically practical for the Secret Service to lease space elsewhere,” Trump Organization spokeswoman Amanda Miller said in an interview with The Post.

The president's protectors, however, seem to be holding out hope that they'll eventually be allowed to move back into Trump Tower.

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The Secret Service is still working “to obtain permanent work space in an appropriate location," the agency's spokeswoman, Cathy Milhoan, told Patch in an email Thursday night. (As "appropriate" options apparently do not include a bunch of federal agents squeezing into a makeshift sidewalk trailer some 50 floors below the spot they're trying to guard.)

Milhoan assured us, however, that "throughout this process, there has been no impact to the security plan developed by the Secret Service."

The bizarro dispute, Post reporters write...

"... has provided a new illustration of the unusual nature of Trump’s tenure, in which the president has retained ownership of a real estate and branding company.

In this case, Trump’s government sought to be a customer of Trump’s business. To protect him, the agency needed space in the pricey tower where he lives. But the two sides couldn’t agree. The Trump Organization was willing to accept a situation where the agents moved out and the space was available for others."

Trump hasn't been back to his gilded apartment on the 51st floor of Trump Tower since Inauguration Day, and his wife and kid joined him at the White House in June. However, according to the Post, "the Secret Service treats Trump Tower as the president’s permanent home, and has a full-time detail to protect it."

Patch has reached out to both sides for comment. We'll update this post with whatever we hear back. In the meantime, read the full story — truly stranger than fiction — over at the Washington Post.