President Donald Trump has accepted an invitation to serve as the keynote speaker for the Forum Club of the Palm Beaches annual event, headlining the group’s 50th Anniversary Dinner on May 1.
The event will be held at the Kravis Center for the Performing Arts. The event starts promptly at 6:15 p.m. and late entries will not be permitted. Tickets are $225, but are already sold out.
Trump follows a long tradition of high-profile speakers at the annual event in his now hometown, including the Forum Club of the Palm Beaches’ inaugural speaker, the late former President Jimmy Carter.
The Forum Club of the Palm Beaches is a nonprofit, nonpartisan political and public affairs organization. It launched in 1976 and has since hosted U.S. Supreme Court Justices, along with a variety of thought leaders whose work has had global impact.
Past speakers include current and former U.S. Supreme Court Justices Samuel Alito, Stephen Breyer, Anthony Kennedy, Antonin Scalia, Sonia Sotomayor and Clarence Thomas; then-U.S. Sen. Marco Rubio, who is now U.S. Secretary of State; U.S. Sens. Rick Scott, Chuck Schumer and Amy Klobuchar; former House Speakers John Boehner and Nancy Pelosi; former U.S. Sen. Mitt Romney; former U.S. Secretary of State Madeleine Albright; former U.S. Attorney General Eric Holder; former U.S. Secretary of Defense Donald Rumsfeld; former U.S. Secretary of Commerce Carlos Gutierrez; former U.S. National Security Advisor John Bolton; former U.S. Deputy Attorney General Rod J. Rosenstein; and several prominent media personalities.
The Forum Club began as a 200-member organization and has since grown to an 800-member organization with a waiting list. Its goal is to inform and educate social, business and political interests in the West Palm Beach community to promote increased participation in the democratic process.
The group’s mission is: “Stimulate thought. Promote dialogue.”
This year’s Forum Club Board of Directors includes President Harvey E. Oyer III, President-elect Patrick Franklin, Vice President William Shepherd, and Secretary/Treasurer Alexandra Chase.
