President Donald Trump oversaw the launch of the U.S. military’s airstrikes against Iran from a makeshift Situation Room at his Mar-a-Lago estate in Palm Beach, Florida, while a black-tie charity gala was ongoing at the same venue.
Far removed from the cocktail-sipping revellers on the other side of the sprawling estate, Trump watched the operation play out from a secure area curtained off from public view in the early hours of Saturday morning.
