Trump family trips cost taxpayers $11.3m in one month – almost as much as Obama’s cost in a year

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http://www.independent.co.uk/news/w...axpayer-barack-obama-month-year-a7586261.html

Trump family trips cost taxpayers $11.3m in one month – almost as much as Obama’s cost in a year
Jaunts to estate in Mar-a-Lago, and secret service charges for his son's business trips across the globe, are costing American taxpayers


Donald Trump’s family’s trips have cost taxpayers nearly as much in a month as Barack Obama’s cost in an entire year.

The US President’s three visits to his Mar-a-Lago club in Florida since his presidential inauguration, combined with his sons’ business trips, reportedly cost $11.3m (£9.1m).

Conservative watchdog Judicial Watch estimated Mr Obama’s travel expenses totaled an average $12.1m in each of his eight years in the White House.

“This is an expensive way to conduct business, and the President should recognise that,” said Judicial Watch president Tom Fitton, speaking to the Washington Post.

“The unique thing about President Trump is that he knows what it costs to run a plane.

“Going down [to Mar-a-Lago] ain’t free.”

The three Mar-a-Lago trips in Palm Beach cost the federal treasury around $10m, based on figures used in an October government report analysing White House travel.

This includes cash for coast guards to patrol the exposed shoreline.

Palm Beach County Sheriff Ric Bradshaw also says it has cost local taxpayers $360,000 in police overtime for his three weekends in Florida since 20 January.

The Post also revealed it cost $88,320 to put secret service agents up in a hotel while son Eric Trump visited Uruguay to promote a Trump-brand condo tower.
 
http://money.cnn.com/2016/11/21/news/protecting-donald-trump/

Protecting Donald Trump costs New York City more than $1 million a day

by Chris Isidore, Shimon Prokupecz and David Shortell @CNNMoney




Protecting President-elect Donald Trump and his family is costing New York City more than $1 million a day, according to three city officials.
And those costs won't necessarily drop significantly once he moves to the White House.

That's because Melania Trump and their 10-year old son Barron expect to stay at their home at Trump Tower in midtown Manhattan, at least until the end of the school year. And Donald Trump has indicated he plans to return home regularly, especially while they're still here.

Adding to the expenseis the cost of police assigned to Trump's adult children and his grandchildren, who are also receiving Secret Service protection, John Miller, NYPD's deputy commissioner of intelligence & counterterrorism, told WCBS Monday. All of them live in the city, and all are entitled to receive Secret Service protection.

"The number one imperative here is safety and security. We owe that to the president elect, his family and his team," said New York Mayor Bill de Blasio at a press conference on Friday. But he added the city will need help with those costs, particularly police overtime.

"This is a very substantial undertaking. It will take substantial resources," he said. "We will begin the conversation with the federal government shortly on reimbursement for the NYPD for some of the costs that we are incurring."

While primary responsibility for the protection of the president, or president-elect, rests with the Secret Service, local law enforcement is charged with assisting them, particularly in controlling movements of the general public.
 
Doesn't change the fact that the optics are quite poor, Clubber. For a President who talks about saving money, it comes off very poorly.
 
Tsing Tao said:
Doesn't change the fact that the optics are quite poor, Clubber. For a President who talks about saving money, it comes off very poorly.
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I will have to agree. There is a need to differentiate between vacation and travel related to the office.

However the optics of spending this amount of money immediately at the start of your presidency does not look good for Trump.
 
They would have a whole lot more credibility if they had been critical of Obama's travel and golf. But they weren't.
 
Clubber Lang said:
Those are business trips, not vacation you imbecile.
And Trumps family is 3x as large as Obama's, and his children are adults who conduct business globally as opposed to Obamas girls who went to grammar and high school.
You are incredibly stupid
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Trumps wife and son could move to Washington and save taxpayers 500,000 per day.I could only imagine the outrage on the right if Mrs Obama and the Obama kids stayed in Chicago at a cost of 500,000 a day

Trump could stay in Washington rather than going to a Florida vacation resort 3 times a month


Trump or is own children should be paying their own expenses when flying around the globe opening hotels.Baron is the only child who should receive taxpayer protection,not his 4 grown children or grandchildren.
 
Arnie said:
They would have a whole lot more credibility if they had been critical of Obama's travel and golf. But they weren't.
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If Obamas golf trips for 12 months cost the same as one month of Trump and family trips they probably would have.
 
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