Does taxpayer money go to Donald Trump’s golf trips?
Donald Trump and his supporters like to boast about what a great guy he is for donating his presidential salary each quarter, but what they don’t talk about is just how much taxpayer money goes toward his non-stop golf trips.
Does president Donald Trump play golf?
President Donald Trump's constant trips to his own golf properties around the globe has been a matter of some controversy since he took office in 2017. A constant critic of President Barack Obama's golf outings—which unlike Trump Obama did not personally profit from—the 45th POTUS claimed he would be too busy working to ever play golf.
How much did Trump spend on Mar-a-Lago Golf?
According to a new report from Huffington Post, the president’s trip to Mar-a-Lago on Friday – his 29th to his Florida resort since taking office – brings the total taxpayer golf bill to $133.8 million. “That figure translates to 334 years of the presidential salary that Trump and his supporters frequently boast he is not taking,” the report noted.
Who pays for Trump’s Resorts?
And of course, if they’re Government officials on business (Congress people, Trump staff, Secret Service), they are paying the standard business rate at Trump’s resorts — which doubled at most of his locations, between his election and his entering office. Imagine that!
How much does Trump's golf trip cost?
So far Trump’s golf trips have cost at least $105 million. Trump’s trips to his golf courses are very expensive and much more than Obama’s since Trump’s have been more frequent and usually requires Air Force One and all the accompanying security arraignments.
How much did Trump spend on Mar-a-Lago?
The GAO report estimated that just four of Trump’s trips to Mar-a-Lago cost: 1 $13.6 million 2 Do not “capture all of the total expenditures by the government” 3 Do not “include certain classified cost information” 4 $60,000 in expenses paid to Mar-a-Lago (there have been 24 so far) 5 Were not able to identify meals and incidental expenses, if any, that may have been incurred at the Mar-a-Lago club
How much money did Donald Trump make in 8 years?
106 times Trump’s $400,000 salary over 8 years combined (which he is donating back to the government) Almost twice the $190 million annual cost for the Peace Corps. $25 million more than the $315 million annual cost for the General Accounting Office.
Is Trump's golf more expensive than Obama's?
Trump’s trips to his golf courses are very expensive and much more than Obama’s since Trump’s have been more frequent and usually requires Air Force One and all the accompanying security arraignments.
How much did Donald Trump raise his golf tab?
President Donald Trump returned to Mar-a-Lago on Friday evening for the 29th golf-related trip of his presidency to his for-profit Palm Beach, Florida, resort, raising his total taxpayer golf tab to $133.8 million.
When will Trump leave the White House?
President Donald Trump departs from the White House for a weekend trip to Mar-a-Lago on Jan. 31, 2020. And because Trump insists on playing at courses he owns, the cost to taxpayers has been nearly four times as high as it was for Obama.
Claim
After only nine months in office, President Trump and family had already spent $147 million on personal travel, amounting to one-and-a-half times as much as President Obama and family spent in the eight years of the latter's presidency.
Rating
Based on the limited information available as of October 2017, the Trump family's monthly travel expenditures during the early part of his administration exceeded the monthly spending averages of President Obama and family.
Origin
The expenses incurred by United States presidents and their families on vacation trips and other travel away from the White House are an evergreen topic of partisan debate, given that much of those, including the requisite round-the-clock Secret Service protection and use of military aircraft for travel, are footed by the federal government.
