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 Trumps, 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
canetoad
(17,088 posts)The Trump Mob started as they meant to go on.
FailureToCommunicate
(13,989 posts)Grammy23
(5,807 posts)In anticipation of all the grifting planned for the length of his term. On someone elses nickel, of course.
LakeSuperiorView
(1,533 posts)Sneederbunk
(14,207 posts)LakeSuperiorView
(1,533 posts)Gothmog
(143,998 posts)CatMor
(6,212 posts)was just for Melania.
Initech
(99,909 posts)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.
CatMor
(6,212 posts)jmowreader
(50,447 posts)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.
xxqqqzme
(14,887 posts)(Other People's Money)
Scurrilous
(38,687 posts)George II
(67,782 posts)Achilleaze
(15,543 posts)what greedy grabby a-holes
Seedersandleechers
(3,044 posts)Remember the scandal over this?
Farmer-Rick
(10,072 posts)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."
AwakeAtLast
(14,112 posts)We don't want it unless it is 3X the going rate!