In the face of cuts for the needy, Trumps $3M trips are appalling
In the face of cuts for the needy, Trump’s $3M trips are appalling
Sunday, April 16, 2017
On March 16, President Donald Trump issued a budget in which his administration drastically cut funding for social services, including the Meals on Wheels program.
The next day, he dined on pan-seared dover sole with Champagne sauce, New York Strip steak and Thumbelina carrots at his Mar-a-Lago resort during a trip that cost U.S. taxpayers an estimated $3 million in security and travel expenses. It was his fifth trip to the resort since his inauguration. Since then, he’s taken yet another jaunt there.
Yes, the same man who has proposed cutting off meals for some of the nation’s most vulnerable citizens — homebound seniors and disabled Americans — has merrily burned through an estimated $18 million traveling to his opulent seaside palace in Florida an average of one time every two weeks during his presidency.
There is no excusing this. There’s no justifying it. It’s selfish, pitiless behavior by an imperious leader who either can’t or chooses not to care that he’s acting just like the arrogant corporate CEOs who continued to zip around in private jets in the immediate aftermath of the recession.
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