Why are we paying for Tiffany Trump's vacation?

[babylonsister]

Secret service I understand, but her hotels and travel?


Tiffany Trump's Spring Break to Serbia Cost American Taxpayers Around Four Times the Annual Local Salary
By Cristina Maza On 4/1/19 at 2:54 PM EDT


President Donald Trump’s youngest daughter, Tiffany Trump, went on spring break to Belgrade, Serbia, where she spent around four times the average annual salary of local residents of that country.

The president’s children use government funds to pay for secret service protection, accommodation and transportation while traveling. The State Department filed a purchasing order on March 27 to cover Tiffany’s stay at Belgrade’s high-end Square Nine Hotel from March 7-16. The total cost of the stay, including hotel rooms for Tiffany and her security detail, was $23,000, according to the purchasing order first reported by Quartz.

The average annual salary in Serbia is around $5,675, according to the Serbian research center Demosta. The country’s per capita GDP is $5,899, according to World Bank statistics. Serbia continues to be one of the least expensive places to travel in Europe, according to travel guides, and the average price of accommodation ranges from between $10 to $50 a night in the capital.

This is not the first time U.S. taxpayers have paid for Tiffany to travel to Europe. A summer 2017 trip to Berlin reportedly cost taxpayers around $22,000. Government security services occasionally open their own temporary offices in the hotel where the president’s children are staying, an expense that is covered by government funds.

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[smirkymonkey]

1. This makes me furious.

Why are we paying for the vacations of any of the adult children? None of them are elected officials. I can see paying for Barron's security since he is underage and lives and travels with his parents, but not for the rest of them. They are all wealthy enough to foot their own bill.

[gratuitous]

2. Well Daddy can't pay for it; he's broke

I'm a little fuzzy on what Tiffany Trump needs a vacation from, but you know damn well Daddy doesn't have the scratch to pay for it.

[LuckyLib]

11. She's attending law school. It's hard work!

[Maru Kitteh]

3. The ethics violations are so wide and so deep, and flow so quickly

from this cabal that any attempt at curtailing the deluge can feel futile. But we must keep speaking out. I'm glad there are so many journalists working hard every day on stories some would deem "boring" in order to bring us a more full picture of these thieves.

[UniteFightBack]

6. Yes they flow quickly and FREELY....pun intended. nt

[LastLiberal in PalmSprings]

4. We paying millions for her sperm donor's trips to Mar-A-Lago, so why shouldn't Little Miss Grifter

do the same?

Trump Golf Count

[colorado_ufo]

15. That is a bit unkind.

It is policy to protect the president's family, whether we like him/her or not. Tiffany tries to avoid anything to do with her father and is trying to make a legitimate career for herself and contribute to society. She may not even have wanted the intrusion of official "protection" but is stuck with it.

[LastLiberal in PalmSprings]

20. Agreed. Tiffany is trying to make it on her own merits. What I said was unfair.

I think I'm just pissed about all the security costs Eric and DJ are running up as they fly all over the world for personal business trips. And the cost of Fat Donnie's trips to Mar-A-Lago and other Trump properties should be highlighted as much as his lies. While we're at it, the profit he's making from his D.C. hotel and his Mar-A-Lago golfing sprees also needs to be documented.

While I think people have gotten used to his lying, I don't know if they realize how much money he is transferring from their pockets into his. People relate to money.

p.s., Tiffany wore white at the SOTU address, so I owe her an apology.

[colorado_ufo]

21. You are a truly good person

and set a great example for us all - thank you!

[boston bean]

5. Especially when she is John Bolton's kid!!

[tblue37]

16. Michael Bolton? nt

[boston bean]

19. Trumpass calls John Bolton Michael Bolton all the time. I was making an extra funny!!

[912gdm]

7. Expect the repubs to act on travel and security costs when a Dem wins in 2020

on Nov. 12 they will be outraged on how much money could go into presidential leisure.

[sarcasmo]

8. Why do our troops salute Jared and Ivanka when they board the plane?

[Maru Kitteh]

9. Jarvanka probably demanded it.

[msongs]

10. we should not be paying for the adult children of any president IMO nt

[tanyev]

12. Serbia? Did Daddy give her some documents to deliver?

That’s not on many college kids’ top 10 spring break destinations lists.

[demtenjeep]

13. she is just like the rest of his fucking "family"

they are robbing us blind and laughing at us while doing it

[Mosby]

14. it's next to nothing compared to the others

https://www.newsweek.com/donald-trump-jr-eric-trump-taxpayers-1031092

[IronLionZion]

17. Because conservatives can be trusted to conserve our tax dollars

unlike those wasteful liberals! Liberals just give away free stuff to undeserving people. Conservatives pick the best and most privileged few who deserve to get free stuff.

[Hamlette]

18. Stuff like this makes me crazy. Shit, she chose one of the cheapest places in Europe.

It would be five times that much in Paris, maybe more.

And not protect adult kids of Presidents? Chelsea? What if she gets kidnapped. THAT is the damned danger. How can the president make decisions for the country when his/her child is being held hostage. "Let us have Ukraine or we kill your kid." Of course we should protect them.

And I want Obama's kids to have great experiences, when he was in office and now.

Remember, to provide protection, the SS has to stay near them and in a hotel that is secure. That impacts the price.

I think she was reasonable to go to Serbia. I also think her seeing a city like Belgrade may make her understand how the other half lives.

His golf trips are another matter. He could cancel just one and let his kids see the world.

[onenote]

22. Not her hotels and travel. The Secret Service's

And this has been the case for other "adult" offspring of presidents (and even former presidents for limited periods of time).