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 | | Subject: Trump Has Spent $115 Million On Golf Trips ― Or 287 Years Of Presidential Salary Wed Nov 27, 2019 4:51 pm | |
| 11/27/2019 05:13 pm ET
Trump Has Spent $115 Million On Golf Trips ― Or 287 Years Of Presidential Salary
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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.
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.
The group Property of the People recently revealed payments totaling $254,021 from the Secret Service to various Trump properties in just the first five months of his presidential tenure.
Over that period, Trump had golfed 25 times. As of Wednesday, he has spent 223 days at a golf course he owns.
If the first five months are an accurate indicator, that means the Secret Service has likely spent nearly $2.3 million in taxpayer money at Trump’s businesses, of which he is the sole owner.
During his campaign for the Oval Office, Trump claimed that as president, he would be too busy working to have time for any vacations at all.
“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,”
https://www.huffpost.com/entry/trump-golf-trips-millions-thanksgiving_n_5ddedbefe4b0913e6f7865cf
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turd_ferguson
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| | Subject: Re: Trump Has Spent $115 Million On Golf Trips ― Or 287 Years Of Presidential Salary Sun Dec 01, 2019 8:41 am | |
| 1) His golf trips are business trips.
2) he takes no salary |
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Temple
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| | Subject: Re: Trump Has Spent $115 Million On Golf Trips ― Or 287 Years Of Presidential Salary Sun Dec 01, 2019 5:14 pm | |
| - turd_ferguson wrote:
- 1) His golf trips are business trips.
2) he takes no salary presidents conduct business in the Whitehouse and do not bill American citizens $115 Million for their hobby. the 200 thousand a year is eeehhh.. trump should have donated it to the homeless vets .. |
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| | Subject: Re: Trump Has Spent $115 Million On Golf Trips ― Or 287 Years Of Presidential Salary Thu Dec 05, 2019 5:10 am | |
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