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Related: Editorials & Other Articles, Issue Forums, Alliance Forums, Region ForumsTaxpayers Get $3.4 Million Tab So Trump Can Host Super Bowl Party For His Club Members
https://www.huffpost.com/entry/trump-super-bowl_n_5e3734edc5b611ac94d6b545Taxpayers shelled out another $3.4 million to send President Donald Trump to Florida this weekend so he could host a Super Bowl party for paying guests at his for-profit golf course.
The presidents official schedule shows him spending two and a half hours Sunday evening at a Super Bowl LIV watch party at Trump International Golf Club in West Palm Beach. Tickets sold for $75 each, but were only available to members of the club the initiation fee for which reportedly runs about $450,000, with annual dues costing several thousands of dollars more.
Well, obviously there are no TVs in the White House, so what alternative did he have? quipped Robert Weissman, president of the liberal group Public Citizen. He could have saved money by chartering a plane and flying club members to watch the game at the White House.
In response to a query, White House press secretary Stephanie Grisham defended Trumps trip and attacked HuffPost: The premise of your story is ridiculous and false, and just more left-wing media bias on display. The president never stops working, and that includes when he is at the Winter White House.
Her phrase Winter White House refers to Mar-a-Lago, the for-profit resort in Palm Beach that is several miles east of the golf course and that doubled its initiation fee from $100,000 to $200,000 after Trump was elected in 2016. Trump frequently mingles with guests at social events there.
On Saturday, for example, Trump appeared at a dinner at Mar-a-Lago arranged by the Trumpettes, a group his female supporters. The dinner did not appear on the presidents publicly released schedule, and in any case was a campaign event, not an official one.
The presidents official schedule shows him spending two and a half hours Sunday evening at a Super Bowl LIV watch party at Trump International Golf Club in West Palm Beach. Tickets sold for $75 each, but were only available to members of the club the initiation fee for which reportedly runs about $450,000, with annual dues costing several thousands of dollars more.
Well, obviously there are no TVs in the White House, so what alternative did he have? quipped Robert Weissman, president of the liberal group Public Citizen. He could have saved money by chartering a plane and flying club members to watch the game at the White House.
In response to a query, White House press secretary Stephanie Grisham defended Trumps trip and attacked HuffPost: The premise of your story is ridiculous and false, and just more left-wing media bias on display. The president never stops working, and that includes when he is at the Winter White House.
Her phrase Winter White House refers to Mar-a-Lago, the for-profit resort in Palm Beach that is several miles east of the golf course and that doubled its initiation fee from $100,000 to $200,000 after Trump was elected in 2016. Trump frequently mingles with guests at social events there.
On Saturday, for example, Trump appeared at a dinner at Mar-a-Lago arranged by the Trumpettes, a group his female supporters. The dinner did not appear on the presidents publicly released schedule, and in any case was a campaign event, not an official one.
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Taxpayers Get $3.4 Million Tab So Trump Can Host Super Bowl Party For His Club Members (Original Post)
CousinIT
Feb 2020
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GoCubsGo
(32,086 posts)1. And, that doesn't even count the rest of the trip.
His Florida golf outings usually cost taxpayers around $16 million a pop. He's down at that dump practically every other weekend.
duforsure
(11,885 posts)2. Wonder how long before we find out
He's getting contractors who'll funnel money into his PAC or use a close relative to get it into his pockets, and likely how he's getting money from the wall, and others schemes . Follow any money involved and he does this using family members , and pacs to hide his crimes with I suspect .Any agreements he destroys , he redoes them with ways he profits from it very likely. Taxes the same way, he twists everything on his returns to do the same thing to profit from them and us paying him.