Mar-a-Lago Trips Cost More Than Transgender Troops

[applegrove]

https://politicalwire.com/2017/07/27/mar-lago-trips-cost-transgender-troops/

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In announcing his ban on transgender people in the military, President Trump said that taxpayers “cannot be burdened with the tremendous medical costs and disruption that transgender in the military would entail.

Except that USA Today points out that trans troops don’t really cost that much: “A report for the Pentagon last year found that transition-related care would cost between about $2.4 and $8.4 million per year — less than 0.14% of the military’s medical budget. That’s roughly the cost of four of Trump’s trips to Mar-A-Lago.”

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[Lucinda]

1. KNR Thank you!

[smirkymonkey]

2. So obviously it's not about the money. Trump is just throwing a bone to the

evangelicals in his base. If he really cared about the money, he'd curtail his weekend vacations to his properties. Like everything he does, it's just pure hate, spite and tossing red meat out to the deplorables.

[panader0]

3. To Trump, it's not really about the money.

It's a cookie for Pence and the religious right wing.

[L. Coyote]

4. Cost of Trump's golfing trips averaging a quarter million dollars every day he is in office.

That does not include the cost to the environment or impact on global warming, etc., which I'm sure he is doiong everything possible to keep to an absolute minimum just like all the other billionaires ....