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riversedge

(69,724 posts)
Sun Feb 2, 2020, 10:59 PM Feb 2020

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 president’s 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 president’s 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 Trump’s 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 president’s 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)
1. Melania didn't exactly look giddy to be there either.
Sun Feb 2, 2020, 11:56 PM
Feb 2020

And what’s up with tRumpolini’s hair? It looks like he frothed it with an egg beater.

Scarsdale

(9,426 posts)
4. Maleria NEVER looks happy.
Mon Feb 3, 2020, 07:04 AM
Feb 2020

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!

Talitha

(6,478 posts)
9. Her face would have lit up if Justin Trudeau was there!!
Mon Feb 3, 2020, 02:41 PM
Feb 2020


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)
2. After Trump is out of office the government needs to do an audit and recoop every dime it spent
Mon Feb 3, 2020, 12:34 AM
Feb 2020

at his resorts and properties.

jmowreader

(50,452 posts)
3. You folks do of course realize...
Mon Feb 3, 2020, 05:51 AM
Feb 2020

...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.

davsand

(13,420 posts)
8. They CHARGE for the SS access and accomodations. We are paying him to protect his ass.
Mon Feb 3, 2020, 02:06 PM
Feb 2020

EVERYWHERE he goes, we all pay to keep his sorry orange ass protected. Pisses me off.




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smirkymonkey

(63,221 posts)
10. Not only did we pay for everything, He charge people $75.00 per ticket to get in
Mon Feb 3, 2020, 10:25 PM
Feb 2020

so he made money off the party that we paid for! What a disgusting grifter!

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