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n2doc

(47,953 posts)
Mon Apr 10, 2017, 01:29 PM Apr 2017

Trump Has Already Spent Almost Double Obamas Annual Travel Budget

This denoted the seventh end of the week that President Trump spent at what he has come to call the “Winter White House” since taking office on Jan. 20. It is evaluated that each of the president’s treks to Mar-a-Lago costs citizens around $3 million. Implying that since taking office, Trump has effectively spent around $21 million in citizen money for his end of the week voyages, which additionally twofold as awesome ads for his Trump-marked properties.

Conversely, President Obama’s travel was assessed to have taken a toll citizens somewhere close to $85 million and $96 million, as per Public Citizen, a dynamic support aggregate. Considering the most noteworthy gauge, that would convert into $12 million every year.

In the event that Trump keeps up the present pace of treks, he could burn through $60 million in citizen money exclusively to visit Mar-a-Lago this year. Also, obviously, that doesn’t verge on evaluating the full cost of securing the president and his family. The most evident extra cost includes first woman Melania Trump and child Barron, who are remaining in New York in any event until September. The New York Police Department has said it costs as much as $146,000 every day to secure the main family.

Trump has gone by a Trump-marked property on 28 of the days he has been president, “implying that he visits a property that is a piece of his private business realm more than 33% of the days he’s been in office, or once every 2.8 days,” takes note of the Washington Post. Numerous morals specialists have raised warnings about the way Trump is ensuring his properties have a key say in the history books. “President Donald Trump is decreasing the workplace of the administration by transforming himself into a mobile promotion for his worldwide resort properties,” notes Public Citizen.

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Trump Has Already Spent Almost Double Obamas Annual Travel Budget (Original Post) n2doc Apr 2017 OP
the freaking myth of republican "conservativism" is such horseshit Achilleaze Apr 2017 #1
yup--we do get the crumbs. riversedge Apr 2017 #4
I don't think anyone out there is paying attention chia Apr 2017 #2
there are some of us bdamomma Apr 2017 #3
and that does not even take into account what businesses in the area are losing every time his niyad Apr 2017 #5
It's OK if you're white, male & Republican. n/t CousinIT Apr 2017 #6
Asshole in Chief Angry Dragon Apr 2017 #7

Achilleaze

(15,543 posts)
1. the freaking myth of republican "conservativism" is such horseshit
Mon Apr 10, 2017, 01:41 PM
Apr 2017

They aren't conservative at all. They are radically trashing the natural world for the enrichment of the already rich. Meanwhile, republicans always squander taxpayer money on luxuries for themselves, as they are doing now keeping alleged billionaire Comrade Casino tricked out in gourmet golf game after gourmet golf game while ginning up More, More, More Tax Cuts for the Rich, and they always starve, freeze and tax the poor. Screw the republicans and their Trickle Down (Pee on the Poor) Economics.

chia

(2,244 posts)
2. I don't think anyone out there is paying attention
Mon Apr 10, 2017, 01:45 PM
Apr 2017

Trump does what he wants and he's so brazen he gets away with it. It's a methodology that seems to be working out quite well for him because it plays on the authoritarianism tendencies of the right wing.

bdamomma

(63,849 posts)
3. there are some of us
Mon Apr 10, 2017, 01:49 PM
Apr 2017

who are paying attention, others are not out of their ignorance and arrogance to the situation. We are the only ones who can stop this. Get on the phone or visit your Congress person or Representatives they are home now. Go to your local office. Silence is compliance.

niyad

(113,303 posts)
5. and that does not even take into account what businesses in the area are losing every time his
Mon Apr 10, 2017, 02:23 PM
Apr 2017

fat ass shows up there.

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