Trump golf cart rentals have now cost US taxpayers more than half a million dollars

[demmiblue]

US president Donald Trump is almost two weeks into the impeachment hearings that have roiled his administration. But it hasn’t prevented him from making some winter plans to play a little golf.

The president spends a lot of time on the links, almost exclusively at his own properties. At the end of October, Trump made his 224th visit to one of his 17 golf courses since assuming office three years ago. On each outing, the Secret Service must follow. And with their golf carts comes a big bill for the American public.

As Trump rides around with his invited guests—on his last visit to the Trump National Golf Course in Potomac, Maryland, he was accompanied by Major League Baseball commissioner Rob Manfred, and Republican senators Lindsey Graham and David Perdue—the Secret Service is never far behind, in their own carts. As Quartz first reported, the carts require modifications that allow them to go at least 19 mph, about 5 mph faster than a standard cart.

The Secret Service has rented 84 golf carts for Trump’s planned visits to Florida between now and May 2020, costing US taxpayers more than $50,000, according to federal procurement filings. That brings the total cost of the agency’s cart rentals for Trump’s golf outings to more than $550,000.



https://qz.com/1753518/trump-golf-cart-rentals-have-now-cost-us-taxpayers-550000/

[empedocles]

1. This needs be on twitter, etc.

Sometimes a small telling detail . . .

[ProfessorGAC]

2. The Unit Cost Seems Inappropriate

$500k for 224 golf visit is more than $2200 each time!
Even at expensive golf courses, the cart fee is seldom >$20, usually well below that.
The Secret Service is using 110 or more carts at a time? That's 6 carts on each hole, or 12 agents
I'm suspicious that these grifters are tossing out a unit cost of more than a hundred bucks per cart! On the taxpayer dime.
I know these are "special" carts. Sure they are. Every regular player knows there's a governor on golf carts. We know at a regular track which # carts to avoid because they're so slow and which carts are the F1 buggies because the governors are set differently.
Back the screw out all the and any golf cart will do 20.
This bill is another scam!

[Botany]

3. Fucking grifters

n/t

[spanone]

4. taxpayer money that goes directly into trump's pocket....

[Hermit-The-Prog]

5. "you're stealing my money"

He thinks it's his money because he was 'elected' by Putin.

Remember this?

https://www.theguardian.com/news/2018/sep/27/this-guy-doesnt-know-anything-the-inside-story-of-trumps-shambolic-transition-team

The first time Trump paid attention to any of this was when he read about it in the newspaper. The story revealed that Trump’s very own transition team had raised several million dollars to pay the staff. The moment he saw it, Trump called Steve Bannon, the chief executive of his campaign, from his office on the 26th floor of Trump Tower, and told him to come immediately to his residence, many floors above. Bannon stepped off the elevator to find Christie seated on a sofa, being hollered at. Trump was apoplectic, yelling: You’re stealing my money! You’re stealing my fucking money! What the fuck is this?

Seeing Bannon, Trump turned on him and screamed: Why are you letting him steal my fucking money? Bannon and Christie together set out to explain to Trump federal law. Months before the election, the law said, the nominees of the two major parties were expected to prepare to take control of the government. The government supplied them with office space in downtown DC, along with computers and rubbish bins and so on, but the campaigns paid their people. To which Trump replied: Fuck the law. I don’t give a fuck about the law. I want my fucking money. Bannon and Christie tried to explain that Trump couldn’t have both his money and a transition.

Shut it down, said Trump. Shut down the transition.

[Hotler]

6. We need new rules for the presidency. You get 2-weeks vacation a year, period.

you play golf or what-ever on your time not ours.

[Yo_Mama_Been_Loggin]

7. Padding his own pocket.

[Kingofalldems]

8. Lazy bastard parks his cart in the teebox.