President Donald Trump woke up Thursday morning in a bed he hadn’t slept in since November.

It was the start of his first full day since taking office at his Trump National Golf Club home in Bedminster, N.J.

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With the president slated to spend more time in Bedminster this summer — and as Mar-a-Lago’s club is expected to close with the end of the social season in Palm Beach — the international spotlight now shines on the small New Jersey town where Trump reportedly could spend the occasional weekend over the coming months.

Bedminster and Palm Beach could be cousins.

The residents

Both are legacy locations for the rich and famous, with Bedminster counting among its ranks such wealthy residents as publishing executive Steve Forbes and New York Jets owner Robert Wood "Woody" Johnson IV. Palm Beach, of course, has its own share of in-the-money society members, including Commerce Secretary Wilbur Ross and energy magnate David Koch.

And there’s the president himself.

Trailed by U.S. Secret Service agents, President-elect Donald Trump leaves the clubhouse following a full day of meetings at Trump International Golf Club on Nov. 20 in Bedminster, N.J. (Photo by Drew Angerer/Getty Images)

Though Trump has been a regular summer visitor to Bedminster since the mid-2000s, his presence now brings with it much tighter security than it did during his November stay at the club after he won the presidential election.

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"Of course, Mr. Trump has been with us before becoming president, but it’s been a long time since Bedminster has seen a sitting president," said Bedminster Mayor Steve Parker, referring to a September 1992 visit to AT&T’s Bedminster headquarters by President George H.W. Bush.

"He certainly didn’t keep a place here, though," Parker said of Bush.

Where Palm Beach is largely single-family residences and has no big-box stores within its boundaries, Bedminster has a mix of rural and suburban development.

On the west side of town, Parker said visitors will find estates spanning dozens of acres and owned by "some of the wealthiest people in the state." There are 18 miles of dirt roads — "still," Parker quipped. Asked about traffic control when Trump is in town, Parker said that he doesn’t expect residents and motorists will be affected "to a great extent."

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He added, joking: "A lot of the residents in that part of town have horses."

But on the east side of Bedminster is The Hills, a planned-unit development with affordable housing.

"We have Woody Johnson and Steve Forbes and their large horse farms, and we also have some old-fashioned, blue-collar working folks," Parker said.

A man practices on the putting green prior to the arrival of President-elect Donald Trump’s motorcade at Trump National Golf Club in Bedminster, N.J. (Photo by Drew Angerer/Getty Images)

The surroundings

Mar-a-Lago and Trump National Bedminster serve their customers distinctly different kinds of luxury.

Trump’s Palm Beach estate is steeped in history, so much so that the federal government declared it a National Historic Landmark in 1980. The mansion has dozens of bedrooms, more than two dozen bathrooms, two pools and three bomb shelters. The latter were installed by cereal heiress Marjorie Merriweather Post, the mansion’s original owner, during the Korean War.

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Trump National Bedminster offers its members a taste of its rural surroundings.

The club sits on land formerly owned by carmaker John DeLorean. It was purchased in 2000 by a Connecticut golf course developer who then sold the property — with a Tom Fazio-designed golf course already under construction — to Trump in 2002.

It spans more than 500 acres, with DeLorean’s former mansion serving as the clubhouse where Trump hosted potential Cabinet members for interviews during his November stay.

President-elect Donald Trump responds to a question from the press after his meeting with Andrew Puzder, chief executive of CKE Restaurants, at Trump International Golf Club on Nov. 19 in Bedminster, N.J. (Photo by Drew Angerer/Getty Images)

Each club’s surroundings vary as well: Where Mar-a-Lago sits next to a public road and can be spotted from the West Palm Beach side of the Intracoastal Waterway, Parker painted a different picture of Trump Bedminster.

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"The golf course has a small sign and a gate shack and trees all around," Parker said. "The clubhouse is a mile off the road. There isn’t any part of Bedminster Township where you can see it."

Mar-a-Lago’s accessibility has made it a draw for protesters and supporters, with demonstrations of sometimes hundreds of people gathering along Southern Boulevard and on Bingham Island next to the estate.

The main entrance to Trump National Bedminster sits on the south side of a two-lane road, where there is little shoulder and no sidewalk.

"For the first couple weekends, there will be some protesters that will want to be seen and heard," Parker said. "We have a Main Street, but we don’t really have a main boulevard. … There’s no place to really get together and be seen and heard at the golf course."

A handmade sign is seen along the motorcade route transporting President Donald Trump on May 4 in Bedminster, N.J. Trump is spending the weekend at nearby Trump National Golf Club. (AP Photo/Pablo Martinez Monsivais)

The cost

One thing both areas are facing: the price of protecting a president.

Where Bedminster’s 16-officer police department is expected to bear the brunt of the security workload when Trump spends time there, the Palm Beach County Sheriff’s Office provides most of the security for the president’s Palm Beach trips, with fleets of deputies posted along the road near Mar-a-Lago and accompanying Trump’s motorcade.

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As a result, Palm Beach County has incurred about $4 million in costs related to Trump’s seven visits since taking office — with the majority of that covering overtime pay for PBSO deputies. Bedminster’s estimate for the same number of trips is a fraction of that.

Parker said town officials put together a detailed report using information from Trump’s November Bedminster visit, determining that the overtime cost for the Bedminster Police Department for one day would be $12,240 a day, or $36,720 for three days. The estimate projects seven presidential visits per year to Bedminster, putting the yearly total near $260,000.

A view of the entrance to Trump National Golf Club in Bedminster, N.J. (Photo by Drew Angerer/Getty Images)

But Parker expressed uncertainty about how often Trump would visit his town, pointing to the fact that the seven visits to Mar-a-Lago came within Trump’s first 100 days in office.

"So it could turn out to be different," he said. "We’re going to have to wait and see."

Bedminster officials based their estimates on what they observed in New York City in December as the metropolitan giant struggled to cope with the gridlock generated by Trump’s time at his Trump Tower residence in the busy Fifth Avenue shopping area. At the time, New York officials estimated the city could end up spending tens of millions of dollars on security near Trump Tower over the president’s four-year term. But Parker said there was criticism of New York’s reimbursement request because "they were not specific or timely."

In this Tuesday, May 2, 2017, photo cars drive near the entrance to Trump National Golf Club Bedminster in Bedminster, N.J. Trump is expected to make regular weekend visits this summer to Bedminster. Bedminster is known for its rolling hills, horse farms and mostly two-lane roads.

(AP Photo/Seth Wenig)

U.S. Rep. Leonard Lance, the Republican congressman whose district includes Bedminster, sent a letter in December to then-U.S. Attorney General Loretta Lynch, requesting reimbursement for the town’s expenses.

It’s similar to a letter sent to Trump in March by several U.S. House members representing Palm Beach County.

Both letters request financial assistance — which is now available under the $1.1 trillion budget signed Friday by Trump. Local governments can apply for a piece of $61 million to cover security costs related to Trump’s visits to his residences between Jan. 20 and Oct. 1, when a new budget will go into effect.

"It sounds like we’re getting what we asked for," Parker said Monday, soon after news of the budget deal broke.

Parker isn’t ruling out asking for law enforcement assistance from surrounding towns. But any guesses, he said, are premature.

"We’re still awaiting that first visit from a sitting president to Bedminster," he said.