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Mrs. Overall

(6,839 posts)
Mon Jan 14, 2019, 10:53 PM Jan 2019

At Trump's Inauguration, $10,000 for Makeup and Lots of Room Service

Source: New York Times

WASHINGTON — Private donors put up $107 million to usher Donald J. Trump into office in style two years ago, and it is now clear just how enthusiastically his inaugural committee went to town with it.

There was $10,000 for makeup for 20 aides at an evening inaugural event. There was another $30,000 in per diem payments to dozens of contract staff members, in addition to their fully covered hotel rooms, room service orders, plane tickets and taxi rides, including some to drop off laundry.

The bill from the Trump International Hotel was more than $1.5 million. And there was a documentary, overseen by a close friend of Melania Trump’s, that was ultimately abandoned.

The details of the expenditures, gleaned from interviews and from documents reviewed by The New York Times and not previously made public, show that the committee spent heavily on nearly every aspect of the events surrounding the inauguration.

Read more: https://www.nytimes.com/2019/01/14/us/politics/trump-inauguration-spending.html

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At Trump's Inauguration, $10,000 for Makeup and Lots of Room Service (Original Post) Mrs. Overall Jan 2019 OP
Wasteful. canetoad Jan 2019 #1
Geez, they should have at least spent SOME of the $$$ hiring attendees at the Inaugural FailureToCommunicate Jan 2019 #2
Living large. Grammy23 Jan 2019 #3
Money Laundering... LakeSuperiorView Jan 2019 #9
Ozark. Sneederbunk Jan 2019 #10
That's exactly of what the article reminded me. LakeSuperiorView Jan 2019 #11
This is sad Gothmog Jan 2019 #4
The $10,000.00 for makeup .... CatMor Jan 2019 #5
Or Chump's Bronzer! Initech Jan 2019 #15
Funny part is it doesn't work. CatMor Jan 2019 #16
No. The Trumps' makeup was billed separately jmowreader Jan 2019 #17
OPM is easy to spend xxqqqzme Jan 2019 #6
K&R Scurrilous Jan 2019 #7
$9,900 was for trump himself. Is there a figure for hair stylists? George II Jan 2019 #8
republican grifters suck Achilleaze Jan 2019 #12
Hillary Clinton's NYC haircut cost $600 Seedersandleechers Jan 2019 #13
It sure costs a lot to wine a dine Russian mob bosses Farmer-Rick Jan 2019 #14
The Pentagon of Inaugurations! AwakeAtLast Jan 2019 #18

Grammy23

(5,807 posts)
3. Living large.
Mon Jan 14, 2019, 11:12 PM
Jan 2019

In anticipation of all the grifting planned for the length of his term. On someone else’s nickel, of course.

Initech

(99,909 posts)
15. Or Chump's Bronzer!
Tue Jan 15, 2019, 12:23 PM
Jan 2019

Bronzer: why show your age when you can hide your face? It's the makeup of choice for guys over 65 who don't want to reveal their age.

jmowreader

(50,447 posts)
17. No. The Trumps' makeup was billed separately
Tue Jan 15, 2019, 05:21 PM
Jan 2019

According to the article, 20 "staffers" received makeup at $500 per face. We can assume that included hairstyling...but damn kids, a top-shelf bridal makeup artist doesn't charge that damn much.

Farmer-Rick

(10,072 posts)
14. It sure costs a lot to wine a dine Russian mob bosses
Tue Jan 15, 2019, 11:29 AM
Jan 2019

But some...like little Putin...were a no shows.

"The Republican National Committee booked the excess hotel rooms before the inaugural staff was even formed, but the committee had to pony up when only half as many rooms were used as the party organization had expected."

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