WASHINGTON — Donald Trump’s insistence on enjoying golf at his Florida programs has now price American taxpayers greater than $18 million since he regained the presidency, setting him on a tempo to exceed the $151.5 million he spent in his first time period, in keeping with a HuffPost evaluation.
On Saturday, Trump is enjoying golf for the thirteenth day of his 48 in workplace. It was his tenth day enjoying at his course in West Palm Seashore, throughout the Intracoastal Waterway from his Mar-a-Lago nation membership dwelling and adjoining to the Palm Seashore County Jail.
He spent one other three days at his course in Doral, simply east of the primary runways at Miami Worldwide Airport.
In keeping with a 2019 Authorities Accountability Workplace report inspecting the primary 4 journeys Trump took to Mar-a-Lago throughout his first administration, each prices $3,383,250 — a sum based mostly on 2017 {dollars} that’s seemingly larger now.
Trump and his entourage fly down on Air Drive One whereas the army brings down the autos for his motorcade on C-17 transports. As a result of Mar-a-Lago, in Palm Seashore, straddles the width of the barrier island, police boats with machine weapons mounted on the bows patrol the Intracoastal whereas a Coast Guard vessel is stationed off the seashore within the Atlantic. Further prices embody regulation enforcement and explosive-sniffing canines.
On his first journey after retaking workplace to California, Nevada, and, in the end, his Doral golf resort, reporters aboard Air Drive One requested Trump if he can be enjoying golf on that journey. “No. I don’t suppose so. I’m busy,” he said.
