From pickleball to protests: How a Trump visit is stirring up a Florida retirement community

Pickleball and protests: How a Trump visit is roiling the world's largest retirement community11 minutes agoShareSaveAdd as preferred on GoogleSheila FlynnThe Villages, FloridaWatch: "It can get heated" - World's largest retirement community talks US politicsSome call the Villages - the largest retirement community in the world - "Disney without rollercoasters".But descriptions of the Villages from residents themselves are even more effusive."It's like being at a resort on a full-time basis," says North Carolina transplant Betty Brock, 79. "I tell all my friends that don't live here, if you get bored in the Villages, it's not the Villages, it's you.""The bottom line is, it's kind of like utopia," says 62-year-old Terri Emery, speaking against the backdrop of live music blaring from one of the Villages' five squares. Spanning 30,000 acres, three counties and four zip codes, the Villages is a meticulously-landscaped master-planned community known for sunshine, socialising and an endless supply of recreational fun for those over the age of 55.Behind Emery, fellow Villagers are dancing to covers of Livin' La Vida Loca and Man! I Feel Like A Woman. Nearby is a neatly parked row of colourful, personalised golf carts - the preferred mode of transport in this sprawling pensioners' paradise."You move here to be young; you don't move here to die and become old," says Emery, who's just finished dinner at a steakhouse down the street.But even utopia has its no-go zones, apparently. Since US President Donald Trump returned to office last year, politics have become an increasingly thorny issue in the Villages. The president is due to give a speech at a local rally on Friday, as part of his wider efforts to champion his economic policies with voters ahead of the midterm elections.The speech has created a buzz in the community for very different reasons. Trump sup...