Well, at the equivalent stage in his presidency, Obama had golfed on 70 days, mostly at Andrews Air Force Base near Washington Trump has now golfed at least 178 days during his time in office, which is more than one out of every five days he has spent in office. It was even a Trump campaign promise that if elected, he was “not going to have time to play golf.” “I just want to stay in the White House and work my ass off,” the future president said. Of course, all of this would be embarrassing to Trump and his loyal personality cult if they retained any capacity for shame, given how much time they spent excoriating Obama for his own golf habit during his presidency. Over the coming summer, the Secret Service has allocated $95,250 to rent golf carts just in Bedminster, New Jersey, to follow the president around while he plays golf at the Trump International Golf Club (the $95,250 estimate might be an optimistic one, as last summer the Secret Service allocated $60,000 for golf cart rentals but wound up spending more like $120,000). A database review by the publication Quartz found that Trump’s golf cart rental expenses alone have totaled nearly half a million dollars since he was sworn in. Coast Guard to implement special coastal patrols near Trump’s golf course when he is in town.Įven the regular sort of golfing expenses get pretty inflated when it is Trump’s entourage incurring them. Then, every time Trump visits Mar-a-Lago, there’s the $57,000 it costs all of us for Marine One helicopter flights, the $800,000 it costs to transport seven-ton presidential limousines and other vehicles, and the $855,000 we have to pay for the U.S. But unlike most of the generally well-to-do golfing public, Trump has the luxury of flying a private plane, whenever he wants, to his own golf course at taxpayer expense.
Trump’s a teetotaler, so at least we save a few bucks there (not on his friends though, since the White House has a history of sticking taxpayers with the bar tab when Trump’s advisers are sucking down cocktails at Mar-a-Lago at an average price of $18.62 each).
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