Trump's Golf Costs: $102 Million And Counting, With Taxpayers Picking Up The Tab

[yortsed snacilbuper]

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.

https://www.msn.com/en-us/news/politics/trumps-golf-costs-dollar102-million-and-counting-with-taxpayers-picking-up-the-tab/ar-AABJpEu?ocid=spartanntp

[bronxiteforever]

1. Kick and recommend for visibility

[Chin music]

2. I bet it's at least twice that.

[JHB]

3. A couple of salient paragraphs

The $102 million total to date spent on Trump’s presidential golfing represents 255 times the annual presidential salary he volunteered not to take. It is more than three times the cost of special counsel Robert Mueller’s investigation that Trump continually complains about. It would fund for six years the Special Olympics program that Trump’s proposed budget had originally cut to save money.

While Republicans and Trump himself frequently criticized former President Barack Obama for his golf outings, Trump has spent more than twice as many days on the links, to date, as Obama did at the same point in his first term. And because Trump has insisted on dozens of trips to New Jersey and Florida to play at his resorts there, taxpayers are spending more than three times as much as they did for golf by the same point in Obama’s term.

[MyOwnPeace]

4. Well, it's like he said........

[keithbvadu2]

5. Didn't Trump promise to play more golf than Obama?

Didn't Trump promise to play more golf than Obama?

http://www.cnn.com/2017/02/20/politics/donald-trump-golfing-presidency/

"I'm going to be working for you, I'm not going to have time to go play golf," Trump said at the time.

[Blue Owl]

6. What a fucking waste of money

n/t

[smirkymonkey]

7. That makes me absolutely sick.

And most of that goes back into his own pockets. God, I hate him so much!

[Yo_Mama_Been_Loggin]

8. Freeloader

[Blue_true]

9. Didn't President Obama and his entire family cost $96 million for ALL protection for 8 years?

Why aren't the people screaming about how much the Obamas cost or how much (actually little) President Obama played golf, out of their minds over Trump's spending?

[Mc Mike]

10. Fore!

[oasis]

11. Should be the subject of a short news documentary.

Let Rethugs know how Trump squanders their tax dollars.

[Achilleaze]

12. republicans ripping off US taxpayers to pamper "billionaires"

sick. And sad.