Trump Using Marine One As A Prop To Promote His Irish Golf Course

POLITICS 06/07/2019 11:47 am ET

Minutes after Trump left his course at Doonbeg, it posted video of his arrival there aboard a government helicopter and him getting ready to tee off in promotional material.

President Donald Trump’s for-profit golf course in Ireland on Friday started using video of his arrival aboard Marine One and of him getting ready to tee off in its promotional material.

Videos were posted on the Trump International Golf Links, Doonbeg, Twitter feed within minutes of his departure back to Washington. Trump played golf there at least Friday morning and possibly on Wednesday and Thursday, as well. The video of him on the first tee, with the Atlantic Ocean in the background, was also posted on the resort’s Facebook page.

The addition of Ireland to this week’s itinerary taking him to London and Normandy cost U.S. taxpayers at least $3.6 million beyond what the trip would have cost otherwise, according to a preliminary HuffPost analysis of the extra travel and security costs.

That would bring the total for Trump’s golf vacations during his first two and a half years in office to $105.8 million.

“At this point, it appears that Donald Trump views his presidency as just another way to support his business,” said Jordan Libowitz of the Citizens for Responsibility and Ethics in Government. “On an international trip at taxpayer expense, he stopped by to film a commercial for his Irish golf course, which is advertising the stop explicitly as one by the president of the United States. His own lawyers, in their ‘Conflict of Interest’ white paper, said this would not happen. But at this point, it’s clear all that matters to President Trump is what makes him money.”

https://www.huffpost.com/entry/trump-doonbeg-video_n_5cfa7f93e4b0c7edd0b661a5

This pisses me off to know end.............................