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[Tovarisc]

President Trump's Florida club cost taxpayers more than $6.6 million to protect since January, according to a new report published Friday.

Mar-a-Lago, one of Trump's resort golf courses which sits on waterfront property on Florida's coastline, requires protection by both air and sea while the president is visiting.

Spending for one of Trump's trips to Mar-a-Lago is close to $1 million dollars, The Washington Post reported on Friday.

In comparison, security costs for a similar trip to Florida by former President Barack Obama in 2013 cost closer to $586,000.

Trump has reportedly already spent more than $21 million on travel so far in his presidency, which would outpace Obama's entire 8-year travel budget by the end of 2017.

White House officials have defended Trump's frequent trips to his properties, arguing he works wherever he is.

“He is not vacationing when he goes to Mar-a-Lago. The president works nonstop every day of the week, no matter where he is," a White House spokeswoman said in February.

http://thehill.com/homenews/adminis...ago-club-has-cost-taxpayers-66-million-report

 

[SamuelSupreme]

We knew this the first month.

 

[Yaphett Kotto]

If he's working wherever he is, why won't he stay his cheeto ass in the white house...

 

[jelly]

Lining his own pockets too. Pure scum and the Republicans defending them.

They don't have a soul let alone a leg to stand on.

 

[psyfi]

He knows his time is up, so he's maxing out the federal credit card while he can

 

[Randam]

He gets things done, so it is worth it.

 

[Shadow Puppetry]

"It is much easier to act presidential than what we are doing here tonight, believe me," Trump said. "With the exception of the late, great Abraham Lincoln, I can be more presidential than any president that's ever held this office."

Wow, for once he's right.

 

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“He is not vacationing when he goes to Mar-a-Lago. The president works nonstop every day of the week, no matter where he is," a White House spokeswoman said in February.

Bullshit. We know he's off playing golf every damn weekend. I'm so sick of these assholes blatantly lying, and there being no repercussions for it.

 

[Guy.brush]

Vacatocrat

 

[norm9]

If I was evil and given all the power in the world, I'd do the same.

 

[m0dus]

$6.6 million....how much was he saving by denying transgender soldiers medical treatment again? $5.4 million or so?

 

[Stinkles]

“He is not vacationing when he goes to Mar-a-Lago. The president works nonstop every day of the week, no matter where he is," a White House spokeswoman said in February.

What wretched logic. If all he's doing is working, why not work from the cheaper, more secure and better equipped whitehouse?


Also it's a bunch of lies. trump isn't even working. He's managing his own reality show. Dude is not exactly cramming on writing bills. He did not for example, understand that health insurance is not the same thing as life insurance, in the middle of the attempted passage of repeal.

He literally believed that health insurance was something you paid twenty bucks a month to have, but you get a huge payout when you're seventy. I'm barely even paraphrasing.

He's not working anywhere and the tax payer is on the hook for him fannying around making the world worse.

 

[Tovarisc]

$6.6 million....how much was he saving by denying transgender soldiers medical treatment again? $5.4 million or so?

Something like that and wasn't that yearly cost, not monthly... or well in this case weekly?

 

[Saucycarpdog]

Does that $21 million also include the protection needed for Trump Tower?

 

[norm9]

He did donate his quarterly salary of $100,000 to the dept of Education; what more do you want?

 

[GoldenEye 007]

Every president works while on vacation. So pointing that out is dumb as hell. His administration is dumb as hell. Truly some of the dregs of American society. Deplorable even.

 

[Shadow Puppetry]

Bullshit. We know he's off playing golf every damn weekend. I'm so sick of these assholes blatantly lying, and there being no repercussions for it.

Golfing is hard work, so they're right about that.

 

[Tovarisc]

Does that $21 million also include the protection needed for Trump Tower?

I doubt it does. Just like it most likely doesn't include space that DOD is renting from Trump Tower so they have constant presence in there.

 

[Kensation]

 

[Effnine]

#DrainTheSwamp, am I right? ugh ....

 

[Protein]

Where the fuck are all those people that always complained about Golfbama?

 

[gruenel]

Someone post some Trump tweets about how the Obamas spend too much on vacations. Or did Mooch delete them already?

 

[rokkerkory]

Not enough Ls??

 

[Tovarisc]

Not enough Ls??

They could mark this as W because Trump is better spender than Obama.

 

[Shadow Puppetry]

OBUMMER!

 

[HvySky]

Wonder how Fox News will spin this one after their endless complaining about Obama going golfing like once or that time he ate fancy mustard. "Trump may spend more traveling but he's actually getting things done wherever he goes" would be some plausible bullshit.

 

[Wilsongt]

Where is the Trump tweet?

 

[120v]

you have to spend money to make money. art of the deal

 

[The Hobo]

“He is not vacationing when he goes to Mar-a-Lago. The president works nonstop every day of the week, no matter where he is," a White House spokeswoman said in February.

Always working, yet accomplishing nothing.

 

[greycolumbus]

$6.6 million....how much was he saving by denying transgender soldiers medical treatment again? $5.4 million or so?

His salary donations feel like such a slap in the face too.

 

[reKon]

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[Arrogant Bastard]

Yah but he just donated $100k of his salary to the DoE so it evens out.