Trump Has Spent as Much on Travel in a Month as Obama Did in a Year

Donald Trump spent many years criticising President Barack Obama for ? Amongst other matters ? Spending an excessive amount of taxpayer cash on golfing trips, holidays and presidential journey on Air Force One. But according to a new document in The Washington Post, Trump's journey at some stage in his first month in workplace has probable cost as plenty as Obama spent on tour in a median yr.

Trump's three consecutive weekend journeys to his personal Mar-a-Lago estate in Florida alone "probably value the federal treasury approximately $10 million, primarily based on figures utilized in an October government record analysing White House tour," explains the Post. Meanwhile, a Judicial Watch document from December placed Obama's general tour costs over eight years at just under $ninety seven million.

The expenses of Trump's Mar-a-Lago trips include enlisting the Coast Guard to patrol the exposed coastline, and different safety, navy, and staffing prices incurred by transferring Trump and his presidential equipment to the so-called wintry weather White House. This, probably, is why maximum presidents content themselves with one year-round White House.

Obama spent in a 12 months on tour what Trump has spent in a month.

Another expected $1.3 million was spent on Secret Service safety for Trump's sons Eric and Donald Jr. During distant places business journeys. That brings the month's overall to an predicted $11.3 million, simply short of the $12.1 million common that Obama spent on travel in a 12 months.

The costs of the first own family's "surprisingly elaborate way of life" don't forestall with Florida ? New York City is paying $500,000 a day to defend Trump Tower, where Melania Trump and her son Barron now live. High security and journey expenses have additionally been incurred by Trump's sons taking business journeys abroad ? Eric Trump's current experience to Uruguay price the Secret Service and US Embassy roughly $one hundred,000.

And that's now not even moving into the moral costs of having sensitive, doubtlessly labeled presidential business accomplished in the front of paying guests at Mar-a-Lago.