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Related: Editorials & Other Articles, Issue Forums, Alliance Forums, Region ForumsTrump's Travel Costs as Much as Obama's In Two Years
April 8, 2017 By Taegan Goddard
President Trumps trips to his luxury Florida resort have already cost the US taxpayer at least $24 million roughly as much as Barack Obama spent on travel in the first two years of his presidency, the Independent reports.
In total, Mr Obamas travel bill over the eight years of his presidency came to $97 million an average of $12.1 million a year.
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Trump's Travel Costs as Much as Obama's In Two Years (Original Post)
DonViejo
Apr 2017
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lpbk2713
(42,757 posts)1. To be expected from someone with gold plated bathroom fixtures.
Why would anyone who voted for him expect any different?
Initech
(100,076 posts)2. Wasteful government spending!
IdiotsforPalin
(170 posts)3. I wonder how much of that money went into
Trump's pocket, from charging exuberant room and meal rates from Mar-a-Lago.
Orrex
(63,212 posts)4. But that's different because Obama is a lazy black man
Whereas Herr Trump is a hard-working white man tirelessly fighting to Make America Great Again.
DK504
(3,847 posts)5. Is that personal or both gov't and personal?
'Cause damn. The Orange Menace will go through that in the next month. Fuck these guys, this needs to be plastered all over every single republican stronghold in the swing states. Show them how much he "really cares."
Charles Bukowski
(1,132 posts)6. Don't forget millions being spent to protect Birther Melania
in NYC.
world wide wally
(21,743 posts)7. Does that include his family's travel expenses?