United States: Trump's golfing passion would have cost taxpayer $ 20 million
The American media have calculated that the lifestyle of Donald Trump and his family could cost the taxpayer up to a billion dollars.
Donald Trump has a passion that costs the American taxpayer dearly: golf. He has the right, that's right, if it relaxes him, it's okay. But for years, even before he got into politics, he was an almost obsessive critic of President Obama's time playing golf. More than 300 times during his eight years in office. And so Donald Trump tweeted, pissed off, "You realize, with all the problems and difficulties facing the United States, President Obama has spent his day playing golf." He was staring at it. And he accused President Obama of wasting public money on it.
But he too plays golf and much more than his predecessor. The American press is keeping the count. He has played golf 18% of the days since his inauguration, just under 3 months ago. So a little less than one in five days. In fact, 9 of the last 10 weekends have been there. He made 6 stays in Mar-A-Lago, at his home in Florida, where he notably received the Japanese Prime Minister and last weekend the Chinese President. The Japanese had been invited to golf, but luckily Donald Trump did not offer it to the Chinese, someone had the good idea to warn him that golf was in the past totally banned by the Communist regime.
In total, $ 1 billion of public money spent at the end of the mandate
Still on his golf courses, he owns several around, one in Palm Beach, another near Miami.
It is estimated that golf weekends in Florida have already cost the federal service, the Secret Service, over $ 20 million. We're not even talking about the local police. And the rare weekends he doesn't go to Florida, what does he do? Well, he's going to play golf at other properties he owns, including Virginia, which is closer to Washington. And he sometimes goes to dinner in the city at night. Where ? At the Trump Hotel! In short, if you take the count, he visited one of its properties on average once every 2.8 days. And in this case obviously everything is paid for by public money for the benefit of the Trump empire.
If Donald Trump continues at this rate, he will spend as much for his trips in one year as Barack Obama in eight years in office! And yet he has not made a single trip abroad, and not a single distant trip. For example, he criticized President Obama for going on vacation every winter in his native state, Hawaii. Vanity Fair magazine has calculated the cost to Americans of all the President's leisure activities on golf weekends in Florida. Plus the costs of Melania Trump staying here in New York City living in the Trump Tower. In total, the Trump lifestyle will cost $ 1 billion in public money during his tenure. At a time when he wants to impose drastic budget cuts, until no longer financing home meals for the disabled and removing all cultural subsidies.
