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Related: Editorials & Other Articles, Issue Forums, Alliance Forums, Region ForumsWAIT..."The SOUTHERN" White House? Doesn't he mean "The WINTER" White House? So confused! SAD!
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sunonmars
(8,656 posts)Arkansas Granny
(31,528 posts)Docreed2003
(16,875 posts)AKA Blathering about himself and his ego for an hour
onenote
(42,759 posts)And by calling it the southern 'white house' he's trying to create the impression he's working not taking a vacation
Ms. Toad
(34,087 posts)SammyWinstonJack
(44,130 posts)Miles Archer
(18,837 posts)Plus all of the businesses in the area that suffer when he comes to town.
Taxpayer money spent at Mar-A-Lago goes right back into his own pocket.
He's making America great again...for Donald Trump.
Stellar
(5,644 posts)an exorbitant price like 250 million dollars for their vacations.
https://www.google.com/amp/www.cnbc.com/amp/2017/02/17/trumps-florida-trips-cost-taxpayer-money.html
raccoon
(31,119 posts)In that case, the golfer beat the gator off with the golf club.
TrekLuver
(2,573 posts)CincyDem
(6,385 posts)onenote
(42,759 posts)FDR's "Little White House" in Georgia.
I don't have a problem with presidents getting out of D.C. on a regular basis. I have a problem with Repub hypocrisy complaining about the cost of obamas travel while ignoring trumps.
Miles Archer
(18,837 posts)$3 million a week x 52 weeks = $156 million a year
$1 million per day for Melania at Trump Tower x 52 weeks = $365 million a year
(this doesn't include her also going to Mar-A-Lago every weekend)
Multiply that over a four year term and taxpayers are looking at a minimum $2 billion.
JI7
(89,264 posts)fuck all of these scumbags.
Miles Archer
(18,837 posts)"But he's doing the job and NOT TAKING A SALARY!"
And no, there is no talking to her about this.
She went "all in" for the red "Made in China" MAGA hats and stayed there. Nothing that has happened since January has fazed her in the least. Rather, she has seen it as encouraging signs that he's keeping his promises.
frazzled
(18,402 posts)It always seemed so to me, but then I'm one of those Northerners. Northern part of the South, for sure, or perhaps mid-Atlantic. But to me, it's relatively Southern.
fescuerescue
(4,448 posts)I think of DC as being the North-East...albeit the southern side of the NE.
It does seem like DC get the worst of both in terms of weather. Hot humid summers and bad winter weather.
BumRushDaShow
(129,442 posts)Of course Malcolm X proclaimed anything south of the Canadian border was "south".
As a note, during the '50s and before, any blacks headed to D.C. (and south) by train from above the Mason Dixon line, had to get off the train and move to the rear cars if they were continuing on.
JohnnyLib2
(11,212 posts)Wish to hell he'd stayed there!
librechik
(30,676 posts)the power of the union so he can own darkies without legal consequences.
He sounds like a fucking PR lady talking about a vacation home. We'll have so much to talk about: fabulous climate, sandy beaches, and best of all, low, low prices!
Mendocino
(7,505 posts)Maybe he can get Paula Deen to cater.
Mendocino
(7,505 posts)and have some mint juleps with Putin on the East Lawn.
Cha
(297,655 posts)out of there.. slinging his bullshit elsewhere.
scarletlib
(3,418 posts)His frequent visits with all the enhanced security is taking a toll on local business in Palm Beach County.
Progressive dog
(6,918 posts)If he had a golf course in Richmond, they probably would have it there for the symbolism.
Tanuki
(14,920 posts)where your frequent vacations enabled you to jack up the price of admission to $200 k /year for fat cats seeking to buy access, ambassadorships, cool Facebook pics of the nuclear football courier, etc. It is in no sense the "people's house". Stop degrading something that belongs to all of us. While you're at it, stop degrading both your wife and the Lord's Prayer. Anyone could see that Melania was as nervous as a whore in church when your handlers made her read it from her script at your exercise in self aggrandizement yesterday. She grew up in the atheist household of a Communist party member and was never baptized or confirmed, so it is not surprising that she did not know this familiar prayer by heart, as most Americans of any or no religious background do.
Island Blue
(5,819 posts)At least with W he was doing something constructive when he went to his ranch. That brush wasn't going to clear itself.