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Trump reportedly heading to Mar-a-Lago for third straight weekend
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Theonik
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The US has very little laws binding the executive branch because they are meant to have systems that if used as were intended, Trump would never be allowed to become president in the first place.
thecouncil
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"This is fine."
Sato Koiji
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Is he really traveling on goverment money? Is Donald freakin' Trump really doing that? Come on...
You guys let a fucking celebrity business man become president. All bets are off at this point. Ofcourse he's going to make a fat stack of his position. Who's gonna stop him ? The people that voted him in? His rich millionaire buddies who are growing fat on his dime ?
SuperStiltzkin
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Dude only ever wanted to be president so he could win a contest.
Haloid1177
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Is that Trump statistic accurate? I know the Obama figure is pretty close to that.
PepsimanVsJoe
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If anything, that figure could turn out to be low.
Trump's Mar a Lago trips cost $3 million a pop. If he's going every week (which is all but guaranteed) then that's an easy $12m right there.
He'll probably start vacationing on weekdays pretty soon.
According to Politico, which cites a report by the Government Accountability Office, each weekend trip may cost as much as $3 million dollars. So 3x$3million=$9million.
http://www.politico.com/story/2017/02/trump-mar-lago-taxpayers-234562
SolarPowered
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It just struck me that American tax payers could very well be paying half a billion dollars just for the travelling expenses of a "billionaire" family even if Trump is only a one term president. Everything I ever read about American Democracy as a child in middle and high school was a joke. We're one giant joke of a country.
fuck
PepsimanVsJoe
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So much money that could be going towards organizations/people that actually need it.
The system is well and truly fucked.
How do you even spend $3 million on a weekend trip? My poor mind can't comprehend it. :/
BlueTsunami
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Security detail, staffers etc
Its why the role he's in doesn't really allow for constant weekend getaways. Its like he wants the prestige of being President without the work and time restrictions.
Agent Gibbs
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le wanted him to run it like a business, he'd clean out the political elite etc etc well he's cleaned em out and replaced them with former bankers, CEO's and other people with vested interests and is literally operating a 5 day working week for himself
There's your business ran government people! business are their for their own interests at the expense of consumers, they ain't going to help you and thy ain't gonna respect you, you were deluded for thinking otherwise
There's your business ran government people! business are their for their own interests at the expense of consumers, they ain't going to help you and thy ain't gonna respect you, you were deluded for thinking otherwise
Snowybreak
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Jesus... It's like a train with dumpster cars behind it, all of which are on fire, including the train itself, and the rails. It's careening towards a cliff made of garbage and at the bottom is a compost dump... coated in napalm.
Also, I'd love to see diablos991 or shattenjaeger come in and defend this shit.
Also, I'd love to see diablos991 or shattenjaeger come in and defend this shit.
BoboBrazil
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Don't forget the 24 hour around the clock tax money being spent on Trump Tower.
According to the article, Air Force One is $200,000 per hour of flight, so that's at least a million there. Then you figure that they have to bring a couple dozen secret service agents, which all need housing, transport, and probably paid overtime. Add in paying for additional support from local police forces, lodging/security for diplomats like Abe, etc. It adds up fast. Consider that the NYPD security around Trump Tower is costing around $300,000 a day and it's not hard to see how these figures can get so astronomical.
spyroflame0487
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This is exactly what he wanted and it dawned on me right after he was elected. I think someone else said here or in another thread he just wanted to win the contest.
Yankee Ruin X
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He will just run up a massive room service tab and bump up the prices, doesn't matter it's the tax payers money that is paying for it all and in the end it all goes back into Trump personal bank account once he's done being president.
And the money that the MPD spends on protecting Trump International Hotel in DC.
And that is for Trump alone.... His family? That figure shoots up pretty quickly. Trump is by far the most expensive president we have ever had in office.
He is using someone else's money to pay for his private trips.
That makes him SMART!
Paid in full to Mar-a-Lago, I assume.
Sidewinder
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The president of "the people", so humble, so good, such stamina!
Raven117
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'that makes me smart'
So are presidents somehow exempt from vacations or what. Are you supposed to work 24/7?
I did the math, if he literally spend all of his weekend there for the first year. He'll spend over 144 million.
Compared to Obama 100 million over the course of 8 years.
Even if Trump only spend 1/4 of his weekends there every year for the next 4 years. It still would be higher than Obama.
Outdoor Miner
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With Melania+Barron staying in NY (forcing gov agencies to purchase/lease housing there which he owns), along with DC Hotel, and weekend trips to Mar-A-Lago our President is generating income on 3 different fronts.
We're being scammed.
We're being scammed.
MaximumSpider
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Nice to see taxpayer money at work. Hope he enjoys himself!
astroturfing
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lol oh yea, wasnt he bragging about that too, that he has so much more stamina than Hillary?
what a ridiculous old man. honestly the most absurdly ridiculous public persona i have ever had to witness.
Vicetrailia
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It's just funny that staying in the White House is a cost savings.
But Trump can't even do that because he wants to give his businesses money, and doesn't mind using Tax Payers money. But yet he wants to gut departments (other people's fortunes), but he can't even dial back himself.
Sounds like a CEO alright.
But Trump can't even do that because he wants to give his businesses money, and doesn't mind using Tax Payers money. But yet he wants to gut departments (other people's fortunes), but he can't even dial back himself.
Sounds like a CEO alright.
Did you think this when conservative media constantly harped on the costs of Obama and his family's vacation costs? Was that also unfair?
Ether_Snake
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Gotta have his regularly scheduled meeting with Putin's envoy under the guise of taking with his guests.
GAF A60-Rim A
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That immediately struck me as a cold-ass deliberate dismissal technique.
"If I pretend I don't notice or care, they won't continue to do it. Whaddaya think, Steve? Am I learneding?"
Angelus Errare
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Well they've estimated that a trip to Mar-a-lago is more than $3m, seeing as this is his third one, then yea.
spyroflame0487
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No. Vacations are once in a while getaways where you relax after working long and hard. For Presidents, they're usually to get away for a while with the family.
Donald Trump has taken 3 "vacations" in 3 weeks. I wouldn't even call them vacations; he's straight up using tax payer money to go back to his fancy resort to conduct matters of national security in a incredibly unsecure location.
You mean like public education? Betsy has that covered.
demosthenes
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