Taxpayers have now ponied up $102 million for Trump's golf trips

[Miles Archer]

Donald Trump’s golf habit has already cost taxpayers at least $102 million in extra travel and security expenses, and next month will achieve a new milestone: a seven-figure presidential visit to another country so he can play at his own course.

U.S. taxpayers have spent $81 million for the president’s two dozen trips to Florida, according to a HuffPost analysis. They spent $17 million for his 15 trips to New Jersey, another $1 million so he could visit his resort in Los Angeles and at least $3 million for his two days in Scotland last summer ― $1.3 million of which went just for rental cars for the massive entourage that accompanies a president abroad.

And, notwithstanding Trump’s campaign promise that if elected he would not play golf at all, the White House has done preliminary work for Trump’s visit to his resort on the west coast of Ireland next month, according to Irish media and government sources, even though no official meeting with Irish leaders is planned in the capital, Dublin.



Late Tuesday afternoon, the White House announced that Trump would meet with Irish Prime Minister Leo Varadkar in Shannon, just 30 miles by air from Trump’s golf resort in Doonbeg. It will be the first time Trump will visit a foreign country — with the staggering footprint of personnel and equipment that entails — for the main purpose of playing golf, though an official purpose was layered on after the fact.

https://www.huffpost.com/entry/trump-golf-102-million-taxpayers_n_5ce46727e4b09b23e65a01bb

[coti]

1. Wow, a tenth of a BILLION dollars so that fuck can GOLF.

Imagine the children's healthcare that could have been financed with that money.

[dalton99a]

6. +1

[dalton99a]

2. And not a peep from Republicans

[Chipper Chat]

3. But but.. butt..

The king needs his down time. He works so hard for you and me..

[librechik]

4. Oh shit--for a second I thought some Trumpster billionaires voluntarily paid his tab.

Silly me--we could wait forever for one of those gargoyles to pay their own fair share, let alone Trump's.

[Achilleaze]

5. republicans owe Americans for this ripoff

Imagine. republicans squander our hard-earned tax dollars to pamper their prissy, victimy, draft-dodging, casino-hustling, Liar-in-Chief, "BILLIONAIRE" republican family-values role model.

Something is super sick and way out-of-whack in the republican "moral compass."

[BSdetect]

7. If we count the actual strokes as opposed to his card scores the tally per hit would be pennies.

So totally worth it .....Not.

[RANDYWILDMAN]

8. I would rather have thousands of those

$500 toilet seats the Pentagon used to make, at least we would have gotten something out out it.

[MyOwnPeace]

9. Didn't I hear something about that?

[ProudMNDemocrat]

10. $96 MIllion over 8 Years...The Horror!

Was what Obama cost us tax payers....That is $12 Million a year or averaging 33 rounds of golf per year.

And yet, the GOP BITCHED about that.

[demigoddess]

11. Unless he is impeached and has to give up his pension, we will pay on and on

We will pay a lot of his expenses after he leaves office, pension, SS coverage, and probably traveling expenses. I think that is why he ran, he was going broke and needed a new source of money for his greed.

[grantcart]

12. Kick

[Wounded Bear]

13. Makes that $35 mill Mueller spent look like a bargain...