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madamesilverspurs

(15,805 posts) Tue Apr 17, 2018, 03:14 PM Apr 2018

Has anyone ever figured out

how much taxpayer money goes into Trump's pocket every time he and his entourage stay at Mar-a-Lago?

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Has anyone ever figured out (Original Post) madamesilverspurs Apr 2018 OP

Enough leftieNanner Apr 2018 #1

Good question. Bad enough for his cabinet to take free trips. lagomorph777 Apr 2018 #2

gao estimates $3.6 million per trip; politifact kinda punts on it: unblock Apr 2018 #3

Yeppers, presidential travel is not cheap. BUT... madamesilverspurs Apr 2018 #5

indeed. i think most government employees can't accept gifts of more than $25. unblock Apr 2018 #7

Just what he charges the Secret Service to rent his golf carts to follow him around would world wide wally Apr 2018 #4

Would love to know KT2000 Apr 2018 #6

leftieNanner

(15,124 posts)

1. Enough

Reply to madamesilverspurs (Original post)

Tue Apr 17, 2018, 03:15 PM

Apr 2018

to pay for food security and health care for a lot of poor Americans.

Makes me sick!

lagomorph777

(30,613 posts)

2. Good question. Bad enough for his cabinet to take free trips.

Reply to madamesilverspurs (Original post)

Tue Apr 17, 2018, 03:15 PM

Apr 2018

But Pres. Turd takes free trips and gets us to pay his business too.

unblock

(52,257 posts)

3. gao estimates $3.6 million per trip; politifact kinda punts on it:

Reply to madamesilverspurs (Original post)

Tue Apr 17, 2018, 03:18 PM

Apr 2018

http://www.politifact.com/truth-o-meter/statements/2017/apr/18/center-american-progress-action-fund/how-much-do-donald-trumps-trips-mar-lago-cost/

Our ruling

The Center for American Progress Action Fund said, "A trip to Mar-a-Lago costs taxpayers approximately $3.6 million, according to a Government Accountability Office report."

No doubt, a presidential trip out of Washington is expensive. It's reasonable to assume that Trump's multiple weekends at Mar-a-Lago cost taxpayers millions.

But the GAO report in question, one of very few available estimates of the cost of presidential travel, did not say exactly that a trip to Mar-a-Lago cost $3.6 million. The report covered a specific trip Obama took in 2013 covering two cities including Palm Beach.

To say each Trump Mar-a-Lago visit costs the same as the Obama trip is imprecise. There are too many unknown variables to say for sure.

We rate this claim Half True.