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[fluffydelusions]

Donald Trump’s family’s trips have cost taxpayers nearly as much in a month as Barack Obama’s cost in an entire year.

The US President’s three visits to his Mar-a-Lago club in Florida since his presidential inauguration, combined with his sons’ business trips, reportedly cost $11.3m (£9.1m).

Conservative watchdog Judicial Watch estimated Mr Obama’s travel expenses totalled an average $12.1m in each of his eight years in the White House.

http://www.independent.co.uk/news/w...axpayer-barack-obama-month-year-a7586261.html

 

[Ever]

It must be a logistical nightmare.

 

[TAJ]

But he's not taking a salary!

 

[How About No]

Yeah but we're getting rid of the second Air Force One and PBS so it all balances out OK

 

[Rygar 8 Bit]

let the swamp flow

 

[Not]

Poor people wanted this

 

[old manatee]

lol how is possible to spend that much money in one month just getting around

 

[boredandlazy]

Fake News.

 

[LakeEarth]

He literally just brought Air Force One into his rally, I'm sure he's paying for that right?

 

[Rebel Leader]

lol how is possible to spend that much money in one month just getting around

It's more if you include
$500k a day to protect trump tower in NYC

 

[dejay]

You can't put a price on winning.

 

[JCG]

But he's going to make the country great again!

What's a little pocket change?

 

[PeakPointMatrix]

Rich family, richer than any of us will ever be have all expenses paid trips and security on our dime as they make even more money and profit off of their businesses.

I feel good.

 

[Lord Fagan]

Meanwhile in Real America, where blue collar whites are suffering terrible economic anxiety...

 

[tirminyl]

Dishonest media. Fake news! Fake news!

I've already adjusted to knowing that everything Trump has complained about of others he has done or will do himself. So, this is to be expected. Of course, his supporters won't care despite them ripping Obama about it because...well, you know.

 

[spazchicken]

It's infuriating. All we can do is keep doing what you just did, informing people and hope the "fake news" sites keep asking questions and that causes some big changes to take place.

 

[Jarrod38]

He has worked hard this past month he needs a break.

 

[Rebel Leader]

He has worked hard this past month he needs a break.

He started Florida weekends 3 weeks ago

 

[djkimothy]

That swamp has to be filled a bit in order to be drained i guess.

 

[Kahoona]

Next press conference a reporter needs to call him out on this and what he said about Obama's travel expenses.

 

[spazchicken]

That swamp has to be filled a bit in order to be drained i guess.

It seems like he thinks overflowing it will do the trick.

or

Maybe we're the swamp.

 

[Syf]

With all that is on the president-elect's agenda, Spicer said finding some free time may not be an option, as the word "vacation" likely will not exist in a Trump administration.

Sad!

 

[Korigama]

It must be a logistical nightmare.

It is.

 

[Linkark07]

They should pass a law in which all Trump voters pay for his and his family expenses. I'm sure they would absolutely love it.

 

[rjinaz]

I can feel that swamp draining from here.

Wait you mean hiring a reality tv star millionaire, who historically hates spending his own money, as president wasn't a good idea?!

 

[Kinyou]

 

[JordanN]

It's almost like the more you work with him, the more he gets to be lazy and destructive.

 

[Lucreto]

Fake News.

I kind of wish he wasn't rightfully shut down. I wanted to see what nonsense is was going to spew and then get complete eviscerated by the host.

 

[Ajax125]

But her emails tho

 

[broncobuster]

Next press conference a reporter needs to call him out on this and what he said about Obama's travel expenses.

He'll respond that he's forgoing the president's salary. His base will eat it up. The reporter won't have a chance to respond with the salary is but a small fraction of these costs.

 

[LilZippa]

But he's not taking a salary!

What do you want to bet he will take the salary still?

 

[Mr-Joker]

President @BarackObama's vacation is costing taxpayers millions of dollars----Unbelievable!

Dude is a hypocrite.

 

[Lucreto]

What is the Presidents salary anyway?

 

[Plasticine]

It's amazing how the stupid orange ape has a hypocritical tweet for every occasion. He's just full of so much shit.

 

[Jedi2016]

This is what happens when you put someone in charge who has no idea how money works.

 

[ArkhamFantasy]

He'll respond that he's forgoing the president's salary. His base will eat it up. The reporter won't have a chance to respond with the salary is but a small fraction of these costs.

The reporter wont get a chance to finish his question, Trump will shout him down immediately.

 

[mo60]

So if the trump's family trips continue for the next four years it could easily cost US taxpayers approxiamately 2.35 bililon dollars by the end of his first term in office and around 5.70 billion dollars if he lasts the full eight years.That is insane.

Edit: I may have calculated something wrong here but it's likely to cost well over a billion for taxpayers to fund trump's weekend trips to florida and his son's business trips.

 

[Piecake]

Its also costing private businesses a lot of money as well

When you think of security around the president of the United States, you most likely think of Secret Service officers in sunglasses, talking into microphones hidden in their cuffs. You probably don’t think of the large bubble of restricted airspace that follows the president wherever he goes. These are essentially no-fly zones reaching up to 17,999 feet within a 30-nautical-mile radius of the president (a nautical mile is just over a regular mile). If you fly into that ring without permission from federal authorities, fighter jets will be on your wing before you can hum a few bars of “Hail to the Chief.”

This policy, in place since the Sept. 11 attacks, is causing more disruption than usual because President Trump has homes in some of the busiest airspace for general aviation in the country — metropolitan New York and South Florida. The first lady still lives in New York, and President Trump is scheduled to spend his third weekend in a row at his Mar-a-Lago estate in Palm Beach, which he and his aides have taken to calling his “Winter White House.”

Major commercial airliners and cargo carriers, such as Delta and FedEx, are unaffected by these temporary flight restrictions, or “TFRS” in aviation speak, because they undergo careful security screening whenever they fly. But general aviation — private and corporate flights, flight instruction, sightseeing tours, aerial photography, pipeline and utility inspections, surveying, weather and pollution monitoring, crop-dusting, banner-towing and more — has to cease or curtail operations. Aviation businesses in New York and Florida say they are facing significant, if not ruinous, losses.

https://www.nytimes.com/2017/02/18/opinion/sunday/the-secret-service-of-the-skies.html

 

[crimsondynamics]

What is the Presidents salary anyway?

USD400,000 per annum.

 

[Maximo]

"Donald Trump’s family’s trips have cost taxpayers nearly as much in a month as Barack Obama’s cost in an entire year."
Holy shit.

 

[Head of Vengarl]

Between this and the 20+ billion dollar border wall... what the fuck are the fiscal conservatives seeing in this guy?

 

[Piecake]

Between this and the 20+ billion dollar border wall... what the fuck are the fiscal conservatives seeing in this guy?

Fiscal conservatives are a figment of our imagination, like the Easter bunny or Santa claus

 

[ArkhamFantasy]

Between this and the 20+ billion dollar border wall... what the fuck are the fiscal conservatives seeing in this guy?

Fiscal conservatives are about as common as unicorns.

 

[Rebel Leader]

Between this and the 20+ billion dollar border wall... what the fuck are the fiscal conservatives seeing in this guy?

They are only "fiscal conservatives" when democrats are in power to say "They be wasting your money!"

They don't exist. They never have.

 

[TheCochese]

That swamp has to be filled a bit in order to be drained i guess.

They drained a swamp to install dumpsters, filled with tires, and set it all on fire.

 

[Monocle]

Yeah but this is totally different for reasons.

 

[commedieu]

As long as poor people don't get candy, wasting taxes, I'm fine with this.

 

[GoldenEye 007]

The only logical way this is being excused by his supporters is racism. The numbers are so absurd, there isn't a different viable explanation to support criticizing Obama over vacations/travel expenses.

 

[RustyNails]

I have an idea to save all those expenses. Instead of Trump and his kids going to all those places, put them in one place. Maybe in separate rooms. With bars instead of a wall. Conjugal visits allowed of course.

 

[SolarPowered]

Rich family, richer than any of us will ever be have all expenses paid trips and security on our dime as they make even more money and profit off of their businesses.

I feel good.

I almost miss the GWB years and we're only a month into Trump's term.

Fucking shit