Trump Has Already Spent Almost Double Obamas Annual Travel Budget

[ProudLib72]

This marked the seventh weekend that President Trump spent at what he has come to calling the “Winter White House” since taking office on Jan. 20. It is estimated that each of the president’s trips to Mar-a-Lago costs taxpayers around $3 million. Meaning that since taking office, Trump has already spent around $21 million in taxpayer cash for his weekend travels, which also double as great advertisements for his Trump-branded properties.

In contrast, President Obama’s travel was estimated to have cost taxpayers somewhere between $85 million-$96 million, according to Public Citizen, a progressive advocacy group. Taking the highest estimate into account, that would translate into $12 million per year.

If Trump keeps up the current pace of trips, he could spend $60 million in taxpayer cash solely to visit Mar-a-Lago this year. And, of course, that doesn’t even come close to estimating the full cost of protecting the president and his family. The most obvious additional cost involves First Lady Melania Trump and son Barron, who are staying in New York at least until September. The New York Police Department has said it costs as much as $146,000 per day to protect the first family.

link:http://www.slate.com/blogs/the_slatest/2017/04/09/trump_has_already_spent_almost_double_obama_s_annual_travel_budget.html

[Initech]

1. I hate this administration more every single day.

[ProudLib72]

2. I am trying right now to think of a way

to make golf unappealing for Li'l Donnie. Of course, he would still go down to the Summer WH and lay in the pool all day.

[Stinky The Clown]

3. Keep spreading pictures of his corpulent self in white golfing togs with that stupid red hat.

[Retrograde]

4. He did promise to drain the treasury

Like many others, I initially heard this as "drain the swamp", but with his weekly jaunts to Florida, his hiring his children, his wife's insistence on staying in Manhattan, his cabinet members demanding extra protection because someone said boo to them - I think my aging ears just misheard and he really promised to drain the treasury.

[dalton99a]

5. There is only other people's money in the treasury

"It’s called OPM. I do that all the time in business. It’s called other people’s money. There’s nothing like doing things with other people’s money." - Sept. 20, 2016

[ThoughtCriminal]

6. Republican at worked complained constantly about President Obama's travel

Like it was the most important issue the world faced. Despite all evidence, never believed that W was the All Time Vacation Champion.

Has. Not. Said. One Word. About Trump's endless golf trips to his resorts and the cost involved.