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With his Thanksgiving vacation, President Donald Trump’s golf hobby has now cost Americans an estimated $115 million in travel and security expenses ― the equivalent of 287 years of the presidential salary he frequently boasts about not taking.
Of that amount, many hundreds of thousands ― perhaps millions ― of dollars have gone into his own cash registers, as Secret Service agents, White House staff and other administration officials stay and eat at his hotels and golf courses.
The exact amount cannot be determined because the White House refuses to reveal how many Trump aides have been staying at his properties when he visits them and will not turn over receipts for the charges incurred.
In response to a HuffPost query on Wednesday asking if she knew how many administration officials other than herself are staying at Trump’s Mar-a-Lago resort in Palm Beach, Florida, during his Thanksgiving stay, and how much it is all costing, White House press secretary Stephanie Grisham responded with a one-word answer: “No.”
ProPublica, for example, found that Mar-a-Lago charged taxpayers $546 a night for rooms ― three times the per-diem rate and the maximum allowed by federal rules ― for 24 Trump administration officials who stayed there during a visit by Chinese President Xi Jinping in 2017. Taxpayers also picked up a $1,006.60 bar tab for 54 top shelf drinks ordered by White House staff.
Trump Has Spent $115 Million On Golf Trips ― Or 287 Years Of Presidential Salary
Isn't this the dude that called Pres. Obama the "Golfing President".
Donald J. Trump
@realDonaldTrump
Can you believe that,with all of the problems and difficulties facing the U.S., President Obama spent the day playing golf.Worse than Carter
8:03 PM · Oct 13, 2014·Twitter for Android
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All 27 times Trump tweeted about Obama playing golf too much
Talk about a hypocrite and these Trump Humpers will come out and defend his lies.
President Trump visits his own properties to golf,and a lot of the golfing he does is part of his job. He played with Honest Abe, PM of the Empire of Japan to talk about foreign relations, he played with Tiger Woods to see if Mr. Woods was back and deserving of the Presidential Medal he was in line for, he played with the Maha Rushdie to find out what the people are thinking and to get advice from America's True Anchorman.
As far as the "expense", that's bullshit. Trump receives 24/7 security wherever he is at, whether its golfing, playing tiddlywinks , or sneaking out to nudie bars. A lot of Trump's golf is right adjacent to his legal domicile in Florida. Very little transport at all.
There is no end to the trash Trump Humpers will spew.