So Just How MUch Is This Jaunt To Davos Going To Cost Us?

[Me.]

Him, his family (minus the wife) practically his entire cabinet, mucho flunkies, security...this guy is using up every available dollar in the US Treasury while at the same time having that A$$ Treasury Secretary weakens the dollar which they say will be good for trade but...no surprise...bad for us.

[Moostache]

1. Is the mistress (sorry..."alleged" mistress) in tow?

I know, it is hard to tell is Hicks or Haley filling the role this week? Are they both there is some new dystopian "reality" TV show being live-acted for the ego of the man-baby in chief?...personally, I hope he is hitting the sheets with Huckabee's mutant offspring and having her husband listen in for kicks...that whole crowd of boo-licking sycophants and miserable bastards deserve to eat their own in an orgy of Caligula-esque grotesque theater of the absurd.

[Me.]

2. Sorry But My Brain Begins To Liquefy

at even the mere-ist thought of his bedroom antics.

[ProfessorGAC]

3. I Can't Ger Worked Up Over This

Every president visits other countries with huge entourages including trusted members of staff and personal advisors, often including the spouse. (BHO took his wife on such missions.)

The cost of it seems like one of the rants i would expect from the RWNJ's when Obama did something similar.

The fact that we can't stand this idiot, and that the idiot is an incompetent and dangerous boob, doesn't detract from the fact that taking these sorts of trips to summit meeting are part of the job of POTUS. The fact that we don't like who is POTUS doesn't change that.

[Me.]

4. Perhaps You Didn't Catch Rachel & The List ENORMOUS Entourage

of the ENORMOUS Entourage going. It may not bother you, his draining of the treasury but it bothers me. His nearly weekly trips to Mar A Lago, the cost of his sons doing TRump business around the world, billions for a wall that isn't needed. All of it when the Dems had to fight for CHIP.

And I take exception to you calling this a RWNJ rant.

Oh and Ps. Obama did nothing like.

[zipplewrath]

5. He didn't say it was

He said it was similar to, or reminiscent of, such a rant.

A better point of comparison may be some of Clinton's early trips where he brought along the Sec of Commerce and a bunch of business leaders. It was an attempt to drum up alot of export business for us. My understanding is that Trump has some similar plans, although I'm dubious he will have anywhere near the success that Clinton did.

[BoneyardDem]

13. "He said it was similar to, or reminiscent of, such a rant. "

oh, that's so-o-o-o-o-o not insulting when you put it that way

[zipplewrath]

14. Yeah, I get it

But taking just one step back, that's roughly what's being said.

It's the "Rahm didn't call you retarded, he said your ideas were retarded" defense.

[cntrygrl]

7. I saw that. They couldn't fit the list on one page and

while looking at them all, I couldn't help wonder how many jets was used to fly them all over. Then there's the lodging, food, etc. My gawd we love to spend on this administration, don't we?

[Me.]

8. Not To Mention Staffs

And, as Rachel stated, the list is incomplete as the WH has said, not all those going have been listed. For instance...Ivanka will be going but is not on this list.

Here's a partial list...

• “Treasury Secretary Steven Mnuchin
• Commerce Secretary Wilbur Ross
• Labor Secretary Alexander Acosta
• Transportation Secretary Elaine Chao
• Energy Secretary Rick Perry
• Homeland Security Secretary Kirstjen Nielsen
• U.S. Trade Representative Robert Lighthizer
• U.S. Agency for International Development Administrator Mark Green
• National Institutes of Health Director Francis Collins
• Food and Drug Administration Commissioner Scott Gottlieb
• Homeland security advisor Tom Bossert
• White House advisor and Trump son-in-law Jared Kushner
• White House advisor Chris Liddell

Other officials who will go to Switzerland but are not part of the official delegation include White House chief of staff John Kelly, Secretary of State Rex Tillerson, national security advisor H.R. McMaster and Cohn. ”

https://www.cnbc.com/2018/01/23/trump-goes-to-davos-world-economic-forum-with-cabinet-group.html

[lapucelle]

10. I don't think this "seems like" or is "reminiscent of" or "similar to" a RWNJ rant.

Why are Hope Hicks and Ivanka going? How many in the entourage will be working for America's interests versus their own personal or business interests?

[ProfessorGAC]

9. Don't Accuse Me Of Things I Didn't Say

1. I accused you of nothing. I said it reminded me of the things people said about Obama. If you infer i called your rant RWNJ, then admit it was your inference, not my implication.

2. I never mentioned the golf adventures. Those, as a recurring theme, bug the crap out of me, as well.

3. The wall has nothing to do with this discussion although i too, oppose that stupid idea.

4. The idiot sons running businesses has nothing to do with this discussion. We are talking about the Davos trip.

5. CHIP was not part of this discussion until you moved the goal posts. This was about the Davos trip.

5. Yes, BHO did take these types of trips because that is the job of the POTUS. If he didn't he would have been derelict in his duty and we all know he was never such. I would be surprised if you were implying that BHO did not do his job properly.

[lapucelle]

11. ...

"The cost of it seems like one of the rants i would expect from the RWNJ's when Obama did something similar."

[Me.]

16. You Certainly Did Infer Such

You Certainly Did Infer Such

And while the subject started with Davos, the point also being made is/was how much money we taxpayers are on the hook for just generally, by pointing out other extravagant ways he is costing us a bundle. There is no need for the size entourage he is taking. Especially considering the last two presidents didn’t attend at all. He 's doing it for show.

As to his sons, their continual business trips both in the US and abroad are also a huge cost to the taxpayer as they each travel with an entourage of security wherever they go.

[ProfessorGAC]

42. Learn The Difference...

...between infer and imply
You critique might have more impact if you actually knew the definitions of the words you use
Oh, and quit stalking me!

[mcar]

19. Seems like a clear inference to me

[JI7]

23. You tried to compare it to Obama when it's not the same at all

[George II]

17. Looks like half the cabinet is going.

[Eliot Rosewater]

34. No, what you said is NOT remotely similar to a rwnj rant. You see, there are NO issues, none

where both sides do it is an argument, not anymore.

[Me.]

35. Thank You

[demmiblue]

6. I tend to agree.

The Mar-a-Lago/golf trips and the fact that his properties profit from his visits (while depleting the S.S. budget) is quite another.

P.S. no hide from me (not that me).

[Dave Starsky]

12. He hates going to these things.

He can't stand the food, the schedule is not his, and he can't just fuck around and go golfing whenever he wants. Plus, he is generally shunned by everyone, and he doesn't have his screaming idiot cultists there to fluff up his ego.

So, I'm all for his going.

[Me.]

15. Why It's Thought He's Really Going

It's a vanity trip

“Why Trump is going to Davos, the world’s biggest party for globalist elites, explained
Trump is attending to both boast to and confront the crowd that disdains him”

https://www.vox.com/world/2018/1/22/16910172/trump-davos-2017-globalist-elite-world-economic-forum

[Dave Starsky]

18. Doesn't matter. He's going. And he hates it.

And I'm happy for it.

[Me.]

20. He Won't Be

So you have that, in fact, I predict this trip will turn out to be a failure

[kairos12]

21. Good point. I hope he gets fondue dumped in his lap.

[jmowreader]

22. Probably 2x what one of his golf weekends does

I just checked the Trump Hotels website. He owns three properties in Europe. One is in Ireland and the other two in Scotland. This means he can't profit from taking his whole crew to Europe, and we should be able to get a cheaper rate.

Since going to international conferences is part of what presidents are supposed to do, I'm not going to get too pissed off about this.

OTOH, if the orange bastard figures out a way to spend his entire trip on a golf course - and you know he's thinking of it, since he couldn't go to his anniversary party during the shutdown he engineered - I WILL get pissed off about it.

[Me.]

24. Isn't Davos Covered In Snow

or are we talking miniature golf

[jmowreader]

25. The closest Trump-owned golf course to Davos is in Dubai

And I wouldn't put it past the worthless fuck to try going there.

[Me.]

26. If Past Is Prologue

He might just try it

[Cracklin Charlie]

28. He is taking everyone in the White House.

If it costs us 6 million for him to go to Florida for a weekend, this trip to Switzerland could cost at least 50 million.

Tired of winning yet?

[Freethinker65]

27. The cost to the US in damage to our reputation and standing in the world will be immense

The cost in $$$$ for this particular visit should be the least of our concerns.

[Me.]

33. Agree Those Two Issue Are Important But

How many services... food/housing /medical are being cut? Thank goodness Chip got passed. All three are important and he is blowing through money like a drunken sailor.

[dhol82]

29. I think the Orange one has a bug in his head that since he was feted and loved

in China and Saudi that he will have the same reception in Davos.
I would not like to be in the room when those attendees leave his speech.
He’s gonna blow!

[SWBTATTReg]

30. Too much...which is why there should be a limit to amount of travel budget allowed...

What is really the goal of such trips? Will they accomplish a new trade amendment...hum, can't be that, tRUMP is canceling all of them.

Security agreements? No, it can't be this, tRUMP hates all of these like his little fit about the benefits of NATO.

To bring business to his hotels and/or other businesses? Nope, none of them there. Perhaps to chat w/ some of his Russian buddies? Hmmm, a valid possibility. To chat w/ some of his crony friends about bringing more business to his hotels or perhaps buy a new site for a hotel and/or business Hum, possible.

Perhaps to plaster his face on the front page as to the good he's doing? Nope, far late in anybody's book. If anything, what will be plastered is whatever stupid and/or dumb thing(s) he's done over there, while portraying the 'Ugly American'.

Certainly nothing for us here in the states.

[Me.]

31. They Say It's To Bring His American Idea To The World

I say aside from a big nah nah na nah na to those who look/have looked upon him with disdain it's so he can private meetings that won't be reported. Who will know who he invites into his suite?

[SWBTATTReg]

32. probably another stripper / go go girl...Sad! NT

[BoneyardDem]

36. "They Say It's To Bring His American Idea To The World"

That's just plain nutty, whoever "they" are. Why would any other nation be interesting in Trumps Nationalism? Trump wants to exclude the world in US economic growth, not embrace them. Is Trump trying to press that statement? Sounds like something he would do.

[Hortensis]

41. And other national leaders were pointedly speaking against

his supposed ideas before they even arrived, and now they're doing more of the same in Davos, where renouncing them looks even more like spitting in his eye, no matter how polite.

[FSogol]

37. They want to see if the caviar is served with silverware or plastic KFC sporks.

[Me.]

38. Maybe They Can Learn A Thing Or 2

about service

[kentuck]

39. How many helicopters?

Sounds almost like a military mission?

[Me.]

40. All I know Is That 1000 Planes Are Landing At Davos

But several of them don't belong to the US