Taxpayers Get $3.4 Million Tab So Trump Can Host Super Bowl Party For His Club Members
Source: huff post
02/02/2020 04:48 pm ET Updated 2 hours ago
The presidents latest trip to his Palm Beach resort and nearby golf course brings the taxpayer-funded total for his golfing hobby to $130.4 million.
Taxpayers shelled out another $3.4 million to send President Donald Trump to Florida this weekend so he could host a Super Bowl party for paying guests at his for-profit golf course.
The presidents official schedule shows him spending two and a half hours Sunday evening at a Super Bowl LIV watch party at Trump International Golf Club in West Palm Beach. Tickets sold for $75 each, but were only available to members of the club the initiation fee for which reportedly runs about $450,000, with annual dues costing several thousands of dollars more.
Well, obviously there are no TVs in the White House, so what alternative did he have? quipped Robert Weissman, president of the liberal group Public Citizen. He could have saved money by chartering a plane and flying club members to watch the game at the White House.
In response to a query, White House press secretary Stephanie Grisham defended Trumps trip and attacked HuffPost: The premise of your story is ridiculous and false, and just more left-wing media bias on display. The president never stops working, and that includes when he is at the Winter White House.
Her phrase Winter White House refers to Mar-a-Lago, the for-profit resort in Palm Beach that is several miles east of the golf course and that doubled its initiation fee from $100,000 to $200,000 after Trump was elected in 2016. Trump frequently mingles with guests at social events there.
On Saturday, for example, Trump appeared at a dinner at Mar-a-Lago arranged by the Trumpettes, a group his female supporters. The dinner did not appear on the presidents publicly released schedule, and in any case was a campaign event, not an official one.
When a pool reporter asked the White House on Saturday what work Trump did over the weekend, the reply was that he had calls and meetings with staff. The president did not attend a rally on Saturday for Venezuelan leader Juan Guaido, whom the United States and other governments have recognized as the legitimate president of that country. That rally began while Trump was still at his golf course, and attending it could have made him late for the start of the Trumpettes dinner.
Trump promised during his presidential campaign that he would separate himself from his businesses if he won. However, he reneged on that vow, as well as on his promise to release his tax returns........................................
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Grammy23
(5,808 posts)And whats up with tRumpolinis hair? It looks like he frothed it with an egg beater.
Scarsdale
(9,426 posts)Miserable life she lives. Money can not buy happiness, as she found out the hard way. Is that Stephen Miller at the next table to the "happy couple"? Maleria was not exactly a success as a model/escort, but her acting is even worse!
Bob Loblaw
(1,900 posts)Talitha
(6,478 posts)As far as shitler's hair, I bet he's trying out Boris Johnson's mussed-up style. Shitler is a copy-cat through and through. Remember the balloony pants he wore for a while, to imitate Kim's?
He SO wants to sit at the cool kids' lunch table!
cstanleytech
(26,080 posts)at his resorts and properties.
jmowreader
(50,452 posts)...that this weekend - ALONE - cost the American taxpayer more than double what we would have paid if this slimy fuck just took his salary like normal presidents do.
Blue_Tires
(55,445 posts)Hugin
(32,778 posts)Not impeachable.
davsand
(13,420 posts)EVERYWHERE he goes, we all pay to keep his sorry orange ass protected. Pisses me off.
Laura
smirkymonkey
(63,221 posts)so he made money off the party that we paid for! What a disgusting grifter!