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BumRushDaShow

(165,151 posts)
Sat Mar 29, 2025, 01:13 PM Mar 2025

Taxpayers' Tab For Trump's Second-Term Golf Excursions Crosses $26 Million Mark

Source: Huff Post

Mar 29, 2025, 09:38 AM EDT


WASHINGTON — American taxpayers have now spent more than $26 million in Donald Trump’s second term so the president can play golf at one of his own courses.

Trump arrived Saturday morning at his golf course in West Palm Beach, adjacent to the county jail and across the Intracoastal Waterway from Mar-a-Lago, his Palm Beach country club.

It is his 14th day at that course and 18th day on one of his courses since his Jan. 20 inauguration, meaning he has spent more than a quarter of his 69 days in office in his second term playing golf.

According to a HuffPost analysis based on a 2019 Government Accountability Office report, the total cost to date for Trump’s second-term golf outings is $26,127,531. The various expenses include moving his motorcade equipment and security personnel around as well as the immense cost of flying Air Force 1.

Read more: https://www.huffpost.com/entry/trump-golf-again-26-million_n_67e6c885e4b0f69ef1d3886c

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Taxpayers' Tab For Trump's Second-Term Golf Excursions Crosses $26 Million Mark (Original Post) BumRushDaShow Mar 2025 OP
"He deserves it. Who else would stomp out America's food banks?" - G.O.P. BoRaGard Mar 2025 #1
Amazing how dumb Americans have become. bluestarone Mar 2025 #2
hopefully not CountAllVotes Mar 2025 #4
Or MUCH, MUCH BETTER: FUCKING DEAD. AZ8theist Mar 2025 #10
And we haven't even gotten to the *3rd* month since the inauguration yet BumRushDaShow Mar 2025 #5
Multiplied out, it will be about $ 625 million total. Half a billion dollars to support a golf cheater. . . . . nt Bernardo de La Paz Mar 2025 #6
And I think they said the calc BumRushDaShow Mar 2025 #7
Department of Government Efficiency Botany Mar 2025 #3
Ha, right! snot Mar 2025 #8
Or to put it another way BOSSHOG Mar 2025 #9
He's been in office for 2 stinking months! FakeNoose Mar 2025 #11
Meanwhile, DOGE is now projected to only RAISE the deficit, thus defeating the entire supposed purpose of it. Karasu Mar 2025 #12
I wish someone would make hay of this. IcyPeas Mar 2025 #13

BoRaGard

(7,591 posts)
1. "He deserves it. Who else would stomp out America's food banks?" - G.O.P.
Sat Mar 29, 2025, 01:18 PM
Mar 2025


Stories just like this one below are in the news in dozens and dozens of US cities. Just try searching for "food banks" in the news -- and you will see the list goes on .

G.O.P. is stomping out America's food banks so that rich republicons can enjoy their fugging Gourmet Golf.

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CountAllVotes

(22,055 posts)
4. hopefully not
Sat Mar 29, 2025, 01:22 PM
Mar 2025

Maybe he'll have to resign or maybe he'll better yet, move to Slovania w/Melania!

Bernardo de La Paz

(60,320 posts)
6. Multiplied out, it will be about $ 625 million total. Half a billion dollars to support a golf cheater. . . . . nt
Sat Mar 29, 2025, 01:30 PM
Mar 2025

Botany

(76,244 posts)
3. Department of Government Efficiency
Sat Mar 29, 2025, 01:22 PM
Mar 2025

So the U.S. Government is paying a Trump business so that he can golf and make money
on his own property.

Christ what a grift.

snot

(11,424 posts)
8. Ha, right!
Sat Mar 29, 2025, 01:53 PM
Mar 2025

Surely it would be cheaper to build a course on the White House grounds.

BOSSHOG

(44,601 posts)
9. Or to put it another way
Sat Mar 29, 2025, 02:57 PM
Mar 2025

17,300 $1,500.00 social security checks or 1,441 years of $1,500.00 checks

Karasu

(2,003 posts)
12. Meanwhile, DOGE is now projected to only RAISE the deficit, thus defeating the entire supposed purpose of it.
Sat Mar 29, 2025, 06:16 PM
Mar 2025

Trump's fucking golf trips alone are costing us more money than this fucking "department" has saved in WEEKS of firing tens of thousands of government employees.

This country is a joke.

IcyPeas

(24,765 posts)
13. I wish someone would make hay of this.
Sun Mar 30, 2025, 02:40 AM
Mar 2025

Billboards? Buy ads on fox/newsmax.

Project onto buildings?

Something, please.... where it would actually be seen (not on meidas touch youtube)

Or, dare I say, post it to Elon Musk on X.

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