Sons Ewan, 7, and Vivek, 4, and daughter Mirabel, 2, joined their father — with the children spotted each trying their own hand at dangling the branches into the water — as their mother Usha Vance, 38, and members of the Secret Service looked on with the walking robot known as Spot.

The Vance family took time out from preparing for government to go makebelieve fishing with palm fronds at Mar-a-Lago on Friday morning.