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On February 17, President Trump will head to his $200,000-per-membership Mar-a-Lago club in Palm Beach for the third consecutive weekend, according to the Palm Beach Post.
Each trip reportedly costs taxpayers upward of $3 million.
Trump’s reluctance to spend a weekend in Washington stands in contrast to what he promised during the campaign, when he said he’d “rarely leave the White House.”
“I would rarely leave the White House because there’s so much work to be done,” Trump told a reporter in 2015. “I would not be a president who took vacations. I would not be a president that takes time off… You don’t have time to take time off.”
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What kills me is when ever the Obamas left the White House to take a trip all hell broke loose with people complaining bitterly about it. Now Trump has gone away on a trip weekly and not one peep. There was one guy on face book that actually said he had no problem when the Clinton's and Bushe's went on vacation or that Trump goes to Mar-a-Lago every weekend but he did have a problem with Obama's taking vacation. Now what the heck? Is that not blatant racism or something? How do people even justify thinking that way?
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Ha, ha!
I remember how Keep loved to quote "Judicial Watch".
Here's something for the old battle axe...
How Much Does It Cost to Protect the Trump Family?
In New York, the city is paying $500,000 a day to guard Trump Tower, according to police officials’ estimates, an amount that could reach $183 million a year.
This month, The Post reported that Secret Service and U.S. embassy staffers paid nearly $100,000 in hotel-room bills to support Eric Trump’s trip to promote a Trump-brand condo tower in Uruguay.
Sure, Obama had some expensive vacations – a single family trip to Hawaii alone cost taxpayers more than $4 million. But, $183 million per year? That’s an insane amount.
And that’s where Judicial Watch comes in.
“This is an expensive way to conduct business, and the president should recognize that,” said Tom Fitton, president of the conservative group Judicial Watch, which closely tracked President Barack Obama’s family vacation costs and said that it intends to continue the effort for the Trump administration.
“The unique thing about President Trump is that he knows what it costs to run a plane.” Fitton added, noting that Trump should consider using the presidential retreat of Camp David, a short helicopter ride from the White House, or even his golf course in Northern Virginia. Of Mar-a-Lago, Fitton said, “Going down there ain’t free.”
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Not outrage coming from the right???
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Teachesk wrote:
Not outrage coming from the right???
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How can something that was seen as so wrong during the last administration be no issue now with the same people who declared it wrong?