Donald Trump has reportedly spent about $71m in taxpayer-funded costs on golfing during his second term, and if his current pace continues, that total could reach $300m by the end of his term.
According to a HuffPost analysis, Trump’s latest visit, on Wednesday, marked his 16th trip to Mar-a-Lago this year, with each trip costing $3.4m in travel and security.
If Trump makes two more trips to Mar-a-Lago in December, his 2025 golf costs would surpass $75m, putting his total for the term over $300m, the outlet said.
During his first term, Trump spent $151.5m in taxpayer-funded golf travel and security.
This article leaves out the most important point: it’s not just the cost of the trips, it’s that the trips are to courses he owns. Not only does the Federal Government pay handsomely for these trips, but that money goes directly back into Trump’s pocket, because he’s paying his own company.
All those hotel rooms and meals (for Trump and his security staff) all generate personal profit.
And apparently, it’s all OK! Maybe we need Pritzker to run for President someday and be just as blatant about staying in hotels his family owns. If a Democrat pulled this shit, Republicans would pass laws to outlaw it in a heartbeat.
If a Democrat pulled this shit, Republicans would pass laws to outlaw it in a heartbeat.
Which is why Biden failed so badly, he had a chance to push the rules to get some laws on the books before Trump took over.
And this is a conservative estimate!
Most of the costs come from military and law enforcement salaries, which haven’t kept up with inflation, so the figures aren’t adjusted to current dollars… the real costs are almost certainly higher than these unadjusted estimates.
They’d impeach a Democrat if they pulled shit like this
Nah, they all do it, and they don’t want to open the flood gates. It’s why trump was never impeached for violations of the emoluments clause
They absolutely do not all do it.
Sorry, just 99%
What do you mean by “it” that they all do? Because it’s definitely not spending this much time, or amount of money per trip, that they’re all doing.
In contrast, former President Joe Biden’s trips to Wilmington, Delaware, and Rehoboth Beach cost far less than Trump’s golf trips because he used smaller aircraft or helicopters, as the local airport cannot accommodate a 747.
Former President Barack Obama was also known for his frequent golf outings, but they were far cheaper than Trump’s, as he would also use smaller aircraft or play at nearby courses, including on the course at Maryland’s Joint Base Andrews.
They is congress. Almost all US reps illegally leverage their power for personal profit
Insider trading is a bipartisan rep problem for sure (legal! since they make the laws!) Not sure it’s any better or just different: in the case of the reps, the corruption wealth gains are not direct money from taxpayers. Stockholders get the short end of the stick on that one.
But the president historically has held to higher standards. What Trump is doing is a new level of corruption, both for the specific office of president and for the direct taxpayers source of his wealth gain. It’s reasonable to have fresh outrage over it, even for people with outrage fatigue on the Congress insider trading issue.
I didn’t say insider trading. That’s only one way reos profit illegally from their positions of power
To his own golf courses. Don’t forget that. The pedophile is paying himself.
Sadly his supporters see that as Trump being business savy
Didn’t the makeup wearing pedophile talk trash about presidents playing golf?
cheats in golf game while trash talking presidents playing golf
Trump famously slammed Obama’s frequent golfing at a rally in February 2016, promising that, as president, he would give up visiting his courses in Scotland and South Florida.
“I love golf, but if I were in the White House, I don’t think I’d ever see Turnberry again. I don’t think I’d ever see Doral again,” Trump said. “I don’t ever think I’d see anything. I just want to stay in the White House and work my ass off.”
Where is dumbass fElon with that Doge chainsaw?
Wonder how many people could have been fed with that money.
If he could spend a billion dollars golfing they would all consider that a massive accomplishment
