Trump Flying Into Morristown For Vacation, Expect Traffic

MORRISTOWN, NJ — President Donald Trump is flying into Morristown Friday evening, heading to his New Jersey golf club for a nine-day summer vacation.

According to his public schedule, Trump is expected to land at Morristown Municipal Airport at 4:25 p.m. Ten minutes later he will leave the airport by helicopter, and will land in Bedminster at 4:45 p.m.

Although officials do not make road closures public for safety concerns, Route 10, Route 24, and Route 287 around the airport and the golf club generally see major delays or road closures during his travel times.

A public schedule for Trump's weekend in New Jersey has not been released; a Saturday and Sunday schedule is typically released Friday evening.

Trump was expected to arrive in Bedminster on Thursday, but pushed his vacation back a day following shootings in Ohio and Texas. He will spend Friday morning at private fundraisers in New York.

This will be the third year in a row Trump is vacationing in the Garden State. Last year he spent 11 days at the Trump National Golf Club in Bedminster and 18 days in 2017.

This is Trump's third visit to Bedminster this summer. In previous summers, Trump has made near-weekly visits to the Trump National Golf Course through Labor Day. The visits have drawn mixed reactions from locals, with some proud to host the president and other's deriding the cost to the taxpayer.

Trump's 10-day vacation will have major impacts on traffic on the ground and in the air.

There are two major impacts when a VIP TFR is issued. First, there is a no-fly zone issued for anything within a 10 mile radius of Trump's National Golf Course in Bedminster. (See Related: Trump To Visit Bedminster For 18 Days, Will 'Devastate' Local Airports)

This essentially shuts down airports such as Somerset Airport and Solberg-Hunterdon Airport in Whitehouse Station.

The second part of the TFR is the second ring, which impacts a much larger radius of airports. The second ring encompasses a 30-mile radius which includes 17 other airports such as Princeton Airport, Old Bridge Airport and Central Jersey Regional Airport in Hillsborough.

Flights within the 30-mile radius can still have aircrafts fly out of the airport to somewhere outside the ring or land from outside the ring to an airport inside.

However, all other operations are prohibited such as flight training, aerobatics, hot air ballooning, helicopters, skydiving, biplane rides and technically even flying a model airplane.