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Date: March 09, 2025 at 15:40:50
From: akira, [DNS_Address]
Subject: Trump’s Florida golf weekends are costing taxpayers $18 million |
URL: https://www.independent.co.uk/news/world/americas/us-politics/trump-playing-golf-florida-cost-b2711532.html |
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Trump’s Florida golf weekends are costing taxpayers $18m, report says – as he
hits the links again
President has played golf on six out of seven weekends since returning to
White House
Oliver O'Connell
in New York
Saturday 08 March 2025
Less than two months after returning to the White House, Donald Trump has
reportedly played golf on 13 of the 48 days he has been back in office — and
the cost of those trips to Florida has been mounting.
On the same day his prized Scottish golf resort, Turnberry, was vandalized by
pro-Palestinian activists in response to his “genocidal rhetoric” regarding the
future of Gaza, the president was back on the course near Mar-a-Lago.
The White House pool report on Saturday (March 8) had him arrive at the
Trump International West Palm Beach just after 8:15 a.m. after a short drive
from his “Winter White House” just across the Intracoastal Waterway in Palm
Beach proper.
According to an analysis by HuffPost, this is his 10th trip to the club, adjacent to
Palm Beach International Airport, since his inauguration on January 20th. He
has also golfed three times at Trump Doral, just east of Miami International
Airport.
The outlet claims, citing costs from a 2019 Government Accountability Office
report, that the president’s apparent insistence on spending his weekends (six
out of seven so far) in Florida has now cost American taxpayers in excess of
$18 million.
During his first term in office, the total for these trips was put at $151.5 million
over four years, with the first four trips costing $3,383,250 each in 2017 dollars
— a sum that given inflation will have now increased.
Trump and his entourage fly down on Air Force One while the military
transports his motorcade vehicles using C-17 planes at a hefty cost.
On the ground, since traveling from Mar-a-Lago to the golf club involves
crossing back onto the mainland from the barrier island, police boats with
machine guns mounted on the bows patrol the waterway, while a Coast Guard
vessel remains stationed off the beach in the Atlantic. Additional expenses
include local law enforcement and explosive-sniffing dogs.
Security has been greatly tightened since the two assassination attempts on
Trump during the 2024 campaign, the first at the Butler rally in Pennsylvania,
and the second when a potential shooter was found hiding outside the very
same West Palm Beach golf club.
After a week of inauguration events back in January, the president undertook
his first trip, flying from Washington, D.C., to North Carolina, California, and
Nevada before heading to Florida.
When asked by reporters on Air Force One whether he would be golfing upon
his arrival in the Sunshine State, Trump replied: “No. I don’t think so. I’m busy.”
He was then pictured playing at the Doral course in Miami in a tweet posted by
a Fox News reporter.
On Saturday, the president departed the West Palm Beach course at 1:23 p.m.
with the pool reporting he returned to Mar-a-Lago at “very high speed,” arriving
back at the resort club at 1:29 p.m.
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Date: March 10, 2025 at 06:51:03
From: The Hierophant, [DNS_Address]
Subject: Re: Trump’s Florida golf weekends are costing taxpayers $18 million |
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this is how it was the first time around and it will be
worse this second time... he hasn't 'worked' because he
is mentally incapable of doing so. He is a rich spoiled
child who only cares about himself. How much it costs
the taxpayers is viewed thru the views of child- well,
he's president (or king if he has his way)- he is
entitled to spend all that time golfing and having the
taxpayers pay for it.
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Date: March 10, 2025 at 12:43:57
From: Redhart, [DNS_Address]
Subject: Re: Trump’s Florida golf weekends are costing taxpayers $18 million |
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sure, cut medicaid (maybe as much as $880 million), aid,
veterans, parks, workers, etc... but millions in golf
okay, contracts to Elon..okay...
seeing a pattern anyone? You don't need a complicated CT
to see this one.
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Date: March 10, 2025 at 11:41:21
From: ryan, [DNS_Address]
Subject: Re: Trump’s Florida golf weekends are costing taxpayers $18 million |
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that is a big part of the problem...he doesn't work...he just signs stuf on tv and does some interview...it is the minions that make policy..guys like steve miller and the heritage foundation...and even if rump dies they will still be around...but just like musk is rump's fall guy, rump himself is their fallguy...
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Date: March 10, 2025 at 12:03:06
From: shadow, [DNS_Address]
Subject: Re: Trump’s Florida golf weekends are costing taxpayers $18 million |
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Exactly… it’s going to take quite the fancy turn of events to wrest those
dark weenie talons from their first cloying grips on our nation’s soul and
reality… Thankfully that miracle isn’t beyond the capacities of Infinite
Love to arrange… ;)
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