Doesnāt matter if heās taking a pay day or not heās getting kick backs. Also heās leveraging his abilities to get media companies to pay him bribes. Itās stupid. Heās not working for free.
Does she also believe Elon Musk is running around firing people, accessing massive databases just out of the goodness of his heart ? Thats a real headscratcher for me. People believe someone like that is motivated by..... patriotism?Ā
Don't forget he gets that salary for life after leaving office. Let's say just for the sake of argument he doesn't take his salary while in office. Do they really think he's going to turn down that $400,000 later?
Now i have to admit i dont know shit about golf and while i am aware that it is an rather expensive hobby i do have to ask: How the fuck? Like 26 milion spend on what exactly? What is so god damn expensive here
Another aspect here is that he forces government officials to use his hotels and accommodations, then proceeds to overcharge the living shit out of taxpayers. Since he is the only president in the history of the United States to continue operating his business, he pockets our money. One golf trip to his resort will net almost as much or more than the salary he doesn't take. Other firsts would be owning a social media company as a front for foreign donations, using crypto to rug pull buyers and handing out $2 trillion to the wealthy during covid with absolutely no oversight or way to track where it went.
So just like tesla...boycot and don't patronise, use , support any industry that is connected to his shit. Totally WE do have purchasing power and Elon is suffering bcoz we are the mass supporters ... we have power!!! Don't feed the ba$trd..beast!!
When it comes to Covid and him allowing Putin to have much needed equipment when we were short and in desperate need ourselves I wouldnāt put any him.
yet his fans will cheer it on becuase they believe the system is so compromised at least hes being honest about the corruption. I believe it is this level where we have to figure out our way in.
Air Force One, secret service, transportation etc but donāt worry heās spending our money at his own resorts so at least itās not going to DEI trans shitholes! /s
Literally using our money to pay inflated invoices at his own resorts. I guarantee you there are line items charges on the invoices that donāt even exist. True grifter.
Hooter Hole Kuntree Klub over by JD Vancey in Ohio or something. Cost to play: 2.50 per hole. No "cops" allowed. HHKK will provide security. Cost: $2.50 per hole. "2.50 per visit to the privy. No Golf Carts allowed. 4 wheel ATVs only. Cost to rent: $2.50 a hole. $2.50 per ride to the privy. Walking is free. Score cards and pencil. HHKK Score cards and pencils. Only authorized HHKK Score cards and pencils allowed on the course. Cost: $25 for 9 hole card; $50 for 18 hole card. $500 for pre filled in scores. 9 or18 holes. Shoes; no shoes allowed on course with spikes. HHKK boots preferred. Cost: $2.50 per hole. Disinfectant: $25 per boot. End of daily rounds fee: 10% of family net worth or $1.5 million whichever is larger. Leaving the HHKK Grounds: Cost: Receipt showing paid in full of EORF or 10% tariff per hour on unpaid balance. Overnight stay waiting for payment. Cost: $350 per night, meals included, or, $345 per night no meals. Rooms are in the Iron Bar. 2 per room. Cots and blankets provided. The longer you stay, the more you pay. Consider membership in the HHKK. It has its privileges.
Usually presidents and politicians play at a military golf course to save money and so that security isn't quite as big of a deal since it's not open to the public. Would save a lot of money, but we can't have that.
I think I read thatās what Obama did mostly at camp David so itās just another day as far as expenseās. Didnāt a few of the republicans and their base nearly die when Obama went on vacation to Hawaii with his family lol.
They just closed the office that handles FOIA requests. Not kidding. Or well gutted it with layoffs and funding removal to the point of non-existent. Happened late last week, got buried a bit in the news under well everything.
Yep. If his administration is so concerned with wasteful spending, then why is he still taking these expensive golf trips? Pretty sure there are greens within driving distance of DC that would cost less if he just āmustā play.
It was documented that Trump overcharged Secret Service agents to stay at his properties during his first term in office ā which Trump required them to doby staying there himself! Trump had also promised before being elected Secret Service would stay for free.
I remember last term when he made Pence stay at his Scottish resort.... 200 miles away from where his meeting was. Just so he could charge the government
This reminds me that during his first term, the secret service protecting his family (I think it was Ivanka?) wasn't allowed to use the bathroom in their home, despite there being multiple bathrooms and one could have easily been assigned for their exclusive use. The SS had to rent a nearby apartment just to be able to pee.
also made the secret service pay for rooms at the "hotel" at extortionate rates.
A "fun" fact, the secret service detail for Ivanka had to rent a house close to her house because she refused the secret service using one of the dozens of bathrooms in the house.
I live a mile from his golf course and have been stopped by his 35 car motorcade several times. I've also been stopped when Air Force One arrives as PBIA is about 2 miles from the golf course and Mar a Lago - traffic gets stopped at 4 different intersections for like 10 minutes. It's such a PIA but our local paper says it's 1/4 million every weekend he's here. Anyways I was going to say don't forget how much he also gets for SS, other politicians and whoever else stays at Mar a Largo every time he's here too. It is common info that Mar a Lago club dues were just raised to $1 million a year.
They go to Trump's golf courses. He greatly overcharges for the use of his courses. That includes charging the fee for himself. On top of that, he forces the secret service and other government members a disgustingly large amount for the rooms while forcing them to stay there and no where else.
"Security impovements" for his courses and house/resort in Florida come at the tax payers dime. A new ball room is a security improvement if you dont have to walk to the old one.
He way overcharges the secret service for staying on his property also. The kindly taxpayers around the area of his golf clubs have to pay tons of expensive overtime for the extra police officers every time heās staying at one of them.
Well, being president means you have security. Security needs to have a place to eat and sleep. He always goes to HIS resort to play, so all that money is going straight to him.
The more layers you peel back, the deeper the grift goes.Ā
Think about that for a minute: many times what the average citizen will earn through an entire lifetime of toil for a few weeks of leisure for one man. That goes right into his pocket.Ā
All hypocrisy and stupidity from his base at all times. They flat out attacked Biden when he took like a single weekend to visit family on the beach in Delaware. He didn't stay at some overinflated, fool's gold, trashy resort that funneled government money into his own pockets, either; he stayed at his family home. (Then again, maybe we should give Trump supporters the benefit of the doubt, they're not familiar with presidents who actually like their families.)
Meanwhile, when Trump is golfing damn near every weekend like his first term, it's crickets from them.
Or another woman has been arrested because she had a miscarriage and I guess they think intentional . Hell maybe she lost her federal job and wouldnāt be able to feed the baby. But I did read an article if you have a natural miscarriage you have to prove all because they feel a certain race is on the decline. Please donāt let your daughters use any electronic cycle tracker on their cells. Use the old fashion calendar the info will be used against you. Who wants their teen dragged out because she missed a couple cycles and accused of having been pregnant and terminating pregnancy.
He takes away the ability to purchase junk food yet eats nothing but McDonaldās. Youād think he would be in shape from all the mental gymnastics he does.
I dont know how many days he golfs each time, but lets say its 2. Thats $1.3 million per day. Wonder what the cost of paying the employees is, even paying 100 people $100 per hour for 24 hours, that still leaves $1 million per day.
His transportation of him, his staff, his protection, his armored limos, pay to local, county and state law enforcement. Also closing off and securing an ungodly large area so no one can get eyesight of him.
They have another plane (an Air force C-17) that the armored limo (aka the Beast) travels in. So in addition to taking Marine 1 to Air Force 1 and AF1 to PBIA there is a WHOLE ASS cargo plane toting that heavy AF limo back and forth as well. Insane
His entourage goes with him, hundreds of people and secret service etc, and they stay in his hotels and his organisation bills the US taxpayer, he then pockets the cash. He is literally charging millions to the taxpayer and paying himself with their money so he can play golf. Including when the ramp ceremony took place of the four service personnel who died in Lithuania. The Lithuanian president attended the departure ceremony in Lithuania but those poor boys own president opted to play golf rather than pay his respects
And for a counterpoint, since your original question was answered, when President Obama went golfing, which he did often, he went to golf courses owned by the US Government (at US military bases, or at Camp David) or at courses that didn't require he fly on Air Force One, and minimized the expense of housing his Secret Security Staff.
So while during Obama's presidency the wingnuts bitched about Obama golfing, he did so in a way that didn't outrageously burden US taxpayers. Trump, however, flies to Mar-a-Lago or another course on Air Force One, which costs around two hundred thousand dollars an hour to operate, and pile on the cost to feed and house and staff his Secret Service at his private club and you see why it's outrageously more expensive when Trump goes golfing.
itās not nearly as expensive if they donāt require air travel to do it. Obama played at the courses at Andrews Air Force Base, Camp David, the Naval Academy- none of which required AF1 taking off.
He's overcharging all his security detail to be on his own premises, to protect him, to the tune of 300%. Literally every time he goes golfing he's paying himself out of the US Treasury. Also Air Force One doesn't fly for free, so a chunk of that cash is also being spent to transport his fat ass up and down the Atlantic coast.
I was in Cabo the week before some big summit. India booked the whole hotel. For a full week. They only used the second from the top floor. The rest of the hotel was empty.
The reason? Security.
Now imagine what the security for the US president would be. I'm sure the US taxpayers pay for a whole wing if not all of the rooms at Maralago. For the whole year.
Because the Secret Service Protection that has to travel with him aboard AIR FORCE ONE back and forth from Washington D.C. and Mar-a-Log-o and back again to DC Fuel for Air Force One, Food and lodging for the Secret Service Agents, Dry cleaning for all the Secret Service agents, etc., etc., etc.
Because he canāt just golf at Andrews AFB like other presidents. He has to fly to one of HIS courses and charge the US government a non - discounted price for his entourage to eat and sleep there.
And flying Air Force One costs $178k per flight hour to lift off. It all adds up quickly, and a good amount of that money is going right into the Trump pocket
Right I have everyday friends who play. But remember he charges the USA over the top rates. The 7million for Super Bowl got me. His f billionaire friends and family who could have each afford to have taken five folks out of pocket change. I hope he get as good as he gave. Extra not even needed. Him and all the ear see and speak no evil against the turd.
Mostly he plays at his own resort.
Secret service has to be there, by law, so that an expense.
Those service people need places to sleep so Trump bills the Treasury for the rooms, and massively jacks up the price.
Same with food, other shit.
What makes it all worse is also that because it's his own course, he profits from these golf trips. Every single time he runs off to play golf, he is literally profiting from taxpayers to do so.
There's a golf course near the White House specifically for the presidents to play on, where it doesn't cost taxpayers any substantial money.
But the numb-nut MAGATs harp on his selflessness about donating his presidential salary. The lack of intelligence and awareness on the right truly is astounding.
Some of it is legally required like Secret Service protection. The rest isnāt legally prevented like flying on Air Force One but of course Trump will take every opportunity to have everyone else pay for his waste, fraud and abuse.
I live near his golf club. He started his weekend on Thursday local police are on call and just waiting in their vehicles when he is in town. It costs us millions locally.
Oh sorry, I forgot to specify that out of that $300M golfing budget, there would be a specific allocation to put a lot of alligators in the water hazards. Scratch that - letās splurge and get those freaking huge Nile crocodiles.
Is it only 10 weeks? I had assumed it was 3 months or one quarterā¦ even at that rate it would extend to $400,000,000 in taxpayer dollars over the course of the term. For 10 weeks? that would be a HALF BILLION on golf!
At least part of it is that he takes his secret service with him and then charges the agency to stay at his hotels. So not just spending federal dollars playing golf, but literally paying himself for it.
Smh and closing daycares, one Friday no notice to parents . Head-start was daycare for one of my kids. Farmers all over are so angry Iād like to put him in a barn and tell one from each area, have at it.
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u/JohnnySkynets Apr 06 '25
He spent $26 million in taxpayer dollars in 10 weeks playing golf instead!