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CousinIT

(9,257 posts)
Fri Feb 3, 2017, 06:25 PM Feb 2017

Trump's vacation to Florida this weekend will cost 3x Michelle Obama trip he mocked last year

President Donald Trump’s trip to his luxury resort in Mar-a-Lago this weekend could saddle taxpayers with a bill upward of $3 million and is already drawing the type of scrutiny Trump and other Republicans regularly heaped upon former President Barack Obama.

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July 2011, he took aim at the first lady: “With 15% US real unemployment and a 16T debt, @Michelle Obama's luxurious Aspen vacation - her 16th - cost us over $1M.” (The unemployment rate at the time was actually 8.2 percent.)


http://www.politico.com/story/2017/02/trump-mar-lago-taxpayers-234562
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Trump's vacation to Florida this weekend will cost 3x Michelle Obama trip he mocked last year (Original Post) CousinIT Feb 2017 OP
No one will care. Else You Are Mad Feb 2017 #1
What's the news on the Mar-a-Lago protest that was planned? Charles Bukowski Feb 2017 #2
Mal a-Lago protest was canceled JOHNS CREEK DEM Feb 2017 #5
Thanks for the info! Charles Bukowski Feb 2017 #6
no problem JOHNS CREEK DEM Feb 2017 #7
IOKIYAR madaboutharry Feb 2017 #3
and that money is ending up in his own fucking pockets. mopinko Feb 2017 #4

Else You Are Mad

(3,040 posts)
1. No one will care.
Fri Feb 3, 2017, 06:27 PM
Feb 2017

Because the Obamas were black and liberal. Trump could spend $20 million every weekend for the next 4 years and the right would be perfectly fine with it.

JOHNS CREEK DEM

(8 posts)
5. Mal a-Lago protest was canceled
Fri Feb 3, 2017, 07:04 PM
Feb 2017

was canceled due to City of West Palm Beach could not handle a large crowd. I advised my friends in WPB to drive real slow honking their horns and use bullhorns or folks with boats can pull up and in his backyard.

JOHNS CREEK DEM

(8 posts)
7. no problem
Fri Feb 3, 2017, 07:53 PM
Feb 2017

I hope they still give em hell....WPB was crying about blocking Southern Blvd and you klnow Palm Beach does not want the riffraff there.
But a slow parade of vehicles would tie up A1A nicely and add the Media circus and Kim Ill Donnie will not be happy!.

mopinko

(70,222 posts)
4. and that money is ending up in his own fucking pockets.
Fri Feb 3, 2017, 06:52 PM
Feb 2017

charging the ss rent for rooms in his own buildings.
if he really wanted to separate his business from his administration, he would just give them the damn rooms. same in nyc.

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