cheetolini's family trips cost taxpayers $11M in one month

[Trill Clinton]

almost as much as obama in 1 year:wow


In a month, the Trump family has cost taxpayers almost as much as the Obamas did in a year (http://www.independent.co.uk/news/world/americas/us-politics/donald-trump-costs-trips-security-taxpayer-barack-obama-month-year-a7586261.html?cmpid=facebook-post)

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Donald Trump, with Japan Prime Minister Shinzo Abe, his wife, Melania Trump, and New England Patriots owner Robert Kraft, in Mar-a-Lago AFP/Nicholas/Kamm/Getty

Donald Trump’s (http://www.independent.co.uk/topic/DonaldTrump) family’s trips have cost taxpayers nearly as much in a month as Barack Obama’s (http://www.independent.co.uk/topic/BarackObama) cost in an entire year.


The US President’s three visits to his Mar-a-Lago club in Florida (http://www.independent.co.uk/topic/Florida) since his presidential inauguration, combined with his sons’ business trips, reportedly cost $11.3m (£9.1m).

Conservative watchdog Judicial Watch estimated Mr Obama’s travel expenses totalled an average $12.1m in each of his eight years in the White House.


“This is an expensive way to conduct business, and the President should recognise that,” said Judicial Watch president Tom Fitton, speaking to the Washington Post (https://www.washingtonpost.com/business/economy/trump-familys-elaborate-lifestyle-a-logistical-nightmare--at-taxpayer-expense/2017/02/16/763cce8e-f2ce-11e6-a9b0-ecee7ce475fc_story.html?postshare=3851487333451275&tid=ss_tw&utm_term=.fb64b647d4c3).

“The unique thing about President Trump is that he knows what it costs to run a plane.

“Going down [to Mar-a-Lago] ain’t free.”

The three Mar-a-Lago trips in Palm Beach cost the federal treasury around $10m, based on figures used in an October government report analysing White House travel.

This includes cash for coast guards to patrol the exposed shoreline.


Palm Beach County Sheriff Ric Bradshaw also says it has cost local taxpayers $360,000 in police overtime for his three weekends in Florida since 20 January.

The Post also revealed it cost $88,320 to put secret service agents up in a hotel (http://www.independent.co.uk/news/world/americas/eric-trump-business-trip-uruguay-taxpayers-cost-business-interests-president-donald-trump-a7562456.html) while son Eric Trump visited Uruguay to promote a Trump-brand condo tower.

Records show it cost $5,470 to put up secret service officials at the AlSol Del Mar hotel in the Dominican Republic, as they scoped out the area, ahead of a similar visit by Eric Trump.

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The same records show more than $16,000 has been spent on secret service hotel bills for his two sons’ visit for a grand opening of a Trump-brand golf resort in Dubai.

The 70-year-old leader of the free world repeatedly criticised Mr Obama for his taxpayer-funded travel during his tenure.

He tweeted in January 2012: “President (https://twitter.com/realDonaldTrump/status/155014799909064704?ref_src=twsrc%5Etfw)Barack (http://www.spurstalk.com/forums/member.php?u=15060)Obama’s vacation is costing taxpayers millions of dollars----Unbelievable!”

The Independent has contacted Mr Trump's communications director for comment.

[Adam Lambert]

$97million total spent in 8 years during obama

accompanied by constant asshurt by conservatives

now silent while melania lives in a gold tower and donald goes to a resort every weekend to appoint fellow members to ambassadorships

how sad

[DMC]

$97million total spent in 8 years during obama

accompanied by constant asshurt by conservatives

now silent while melania lives in a gold tower and donald goes to a resort every weekend to appoint fellow members to ambassadorships

how sad

Not including the billions given away to terrorist nations.

Donald's lifestyle probably got worse, his wife's didn't change.

:lol slap on a mask and riot you faggot

[Adam Lambert]

Not including the billions given away to terrorist nations.

Donald's lifestyle probably got worse, his wife's didn't change.

:lol slap on a mask and riot you faggot

on-cue trump semen shielding from mr "i didnt vote for him but hes my hero"

spineless faggot

[Adam Lambert]

:lol slap on a mask and riot you faggot

while i do that, go get your ar15 and stand your fat ass on the other side of the street acting like youd use it if a riot broke out

[DMC]

on-cue trump semen shielding from mr "i didnt vote for him but hes my hero"

spineless faggot


while i do that, go get your ar15 and stand your fat ass on the other side of the street acting like youd use it if a riot broke out

:lol multiposting.... you're rattled. Get started on that rainbow flag and your anarchist mask, keyboard warrior. :lol

[Adam Lambert]

:lol multiposting.... you're rattled. Get started on that rainbow flag and your anarchist mask, keyboard warrior. :lol

multi-emojis.... youre lacking any material

[spurraider21]

If he cuts taxes and saves people money, they won't care.

[DMC]

multi-emojis.... youre lacking any material

You provide plenty material.

:lol failed troll melts down
:lol bad as cat lover

[mavsfan1000]

The amount is less than a 3 cents per taxpayer. Darn. Lol

[baseline bum]

That's retarded complaining about the costs of Secret Service protection for the president. As much as I hate Trump him getting assassinated would be a disaster for this country.

[Spurminator]

Protection is necessary. Not sure having the first lady live outside the White House is. And it's fair to compare costs against the previous POTUS who drew plenty of criticism over his travels.

[baseline bum]

And it's fair to compare costs against the previous POTUS who drew plenty of criticism over his travels.

I don't think it is. The complaints were retarded then too.

[Thread]

That's retarded complaining about the costs of Secret Service protection for the president. As much as I hate Trump him getting assassinated would be a disaster for this country.

Please. Media, in association with both sides of the aisle & Media would have a blast putting all that into order. Within 90 days it'd be a "Good thing." & said aloud, in broad daylight...just like that.

Get that status quo back up. Hell, the line is still sitting there all greased. It'd be shaved pussy to kick the switch.

[baseline bum]

Please. Media, in association with both sides of the aisle & Media would have a blast putting all that into order. Within 90 days it'd be a "Good thing." & said aloud, in broad daylight...just like that.

Get that status quo back up. Hell, the line is still sitting there all greased. It'd be shaved pussy to kick the switch.

Bend over. I'll kick your switch.

[Spurminator]

I don't think it is. The complaints were retarded then too.

Complaints have always been less about protection and more about unnecessary travel that costs more because of the protection. If the Trump family lived in the White House like a normal Presidential family it would cost much less and would be harder to justify complaints.

[DMC]

Stop rioting and throwing shit at his motorcade, maybe the price wouldn't be so high.

[baseline bum]

Complaints have always been less about protection and more about unnecessary travel that costs more because of the protection. If the Trump family lived in the White House like a normal Presidential family it would cost much less and would be harder to justify complaints.

I take Trump at his word that he doesn't want to pull his kid out of school in the middle of the year. Trump never expected to actually win, so I can understand he didn't do any legwork to find a school he liked in DC. And I can imagine the school he sends his son to is really important to him based on how much that military school he went to as an adolescent shaped him.

The cost of Secret Service protection is a petty thing to criticize a president about, it's like pennies under the couch when it comes to the budget. Trump has a large family, so we knew going in his Secret Service protection was going to cost a lot more than Obama's. With all the legitimate reasons to hate Trump complaining about something so small and meaningless is ridiculous. It's like all the right wing nuts who had a fit about Clinton sticking cigars in Lewinski and then not admitting it. Who cares?

[DMC]

I take Trump at his word that he doesn't want to pull his kid out of school in the middle of the year. Trump never expected to actually win, so I can understand he didn't do any legwork to find a school he liked in DC. And I can imagine the school he sends his son to is really important to him based on how much that military school he went to as an adolescent shaped him.

The cost of Secret Service protection is a petty thing to criticize a president about, it's like pennies under the couch when it comes to the budget. Trump has a large family, so we knew going in his Secret Service protection was going to cost a lot more than Obama's. With all the legitimate reasons to hate Trump complaining about something so small and meaningless is ridiculous. It's like all the right wing nuts who had a fit about Clinton sticking cigars in Lewinski and then not admitting it. Who cares?
Lewinsky was one of the few things I respected Bill for. He was a smooth motherfucker. The "wag the dog" scenario sticks in my craw though.

[boutons_deux]

"military school he went to as an adolescent shaped him"

:lol yep, you're hell of man, Donny :lol

[Mitch]

More money needs to be put into protecting him because the Hillary voters are very dangerous people. Nobody really worried about the McCain and Romney voters, they were law abiding citizens for the most part.

[Reck]

More money needs to be put into protecting him because the Hillary voters are very dangerous people. Nobody really worried about the McCain and Romney voters, they were law abiding citizens for the most part.

You're smarter than that. Come up with something funnier.

[mavsfan1000]

And at least that money is going to American's.

[Mitch]

You're smarter than that. Come up with something funnier.

Which person do you think those antifa guys voted for, bro?

[baseline bum]

Which person do you think those antifa guys voted for, bro?

Probably Chief Wahoo of the Sioux Nation. That's how he got his one electoral vote.

[Reck]

Which person do you think those antifa guys voted for, bro?

And that makes them her supporters? You're more right wing than I thought.

[mavsfan1000]

Right wing is the American way.

[Mitch]

And that makes them her supporters? You're more right wing than I thought.

No reck, obviously her voters arent her supporters :lol

[Winehole23]

I don't think it is. The complaints were retarded then too.yep

[Winehole23]

Right wing is the American way.believe it or not, it ain't all about what you think.

[Winehole23]

More money needs to be put into protecting him because the Hillary voters are very dangerous people.Funny, they say the exact same thing about you.

[mavsfan1000]

believe it or not, it ain't all about what you think.
I disagree. But Some of my friends are liberal. It is silly getting upset with different opinions. As long as they don't insult you.

[florige]

I don't think it is. The complaints were retarded then too.


You are right it is dumb. But Dem's played defense against that same argument for 8 long years. Most are salivating at the glands for payback.

[clambake]

I disagree. But Some of my friends are liberal. It is silly getting upset with different opinions. As long as they don't insult you.

you can be insulted?

[boutons_deux]

"it's like pennies under the couch when it comes to the budget"

so are PBS, PP, Endowment for Arts, Humanities.

Obviously, judging from the election, people are extremely connable, suggestible, take the President's actions, words as a (implicit, unconscious) example for themselves.

The $$$ wasted on Trash and his families abnormal logistics isn't the problem.

It's the rip-off-taxpayers/abuse-the-govt/grifting example that is the problem.

[Blake]

That's retarded complaining about the costs of Secret Service protection for the president. As much as I hate Trump him getting assassinated would be a disaster for this country.

Yeah Trump was retarded for complaining about it back in 2012.

We voted a retard into the White House.

[baseline bum]

"it's like pennies under the couch when it comes to the budget"

so are PBS, PP, Endowment for Arts, Humanities.


Exactly

[DMC]

And that makes them her supporters? You're more right wing than I thought.

So voting for someone isn't the same as supporting them? :lol

[boutons_deux]

Exactly

wrong. The point is not the $$, but the example Trash is setting for suggestible, connable, stupid, ignorant people.

[Adam Lambert]

I take Trump at his word that he doesn't want to pull his kid out of school in the middle of the year. Trump never expected to actually win, so I can understand he didn't do any legwork to find a school he liked in DC. And I can imagine the school he sends his son to is really important to him based on how much that military school he went to as an adolescent shaped him.

true, this is the first president to ever be elected with a kid in school. please, take my money, trumps.

[Adam Lambert]

So voting for someone isn't the same as supporting them? :lol

you tell us, youre the resident donald swallower who "didnt vote for him"

[DMC]

you tell us, youre the resident donald swallower who "didnt vote for him"

So there's two faggots using the same queer alt?

[ducks]

wrong. The point is not the $$, but the example Trash is setting for suggestible, connable, stupid, ignorant people.

He much better example then sanders

[Adam Lambert]

So there's two faggots using the same queer alt?

yes, that's the obvious explanation for my use of the word "us" in that context, you must have been at the top of your class!

[mavsfan1000]

Just glad Trump President and not Clinton. ;)

[CosmicCowboy]

:lol @ the butthurt "trump spent 11 million on travel"

He will never top the obamas taking two different planes to Hawaii on the same day. Air Force One just wasn't big enough for Michelle...she had to take her own plane...

[Adam Lambert]

:lol @ the butthurt "trump spent 11 million on travel"

He will never top the obamas taking two different planes to Hawaii on the same day. Air Force One just wasn't big enough for Michelle...she had to take her own plane...

are you serious right now?

the whole point of this thread is that he has topped obama. and youre still bitching about obamas expenses? do you realize trump is going to pass the obamas by the end of his first year in office?

the fuck, man. there are two possible valid arguments right now. either presidential expense doesnt matter and has never mattered, or it does matter and trump is much worse. your position of trump isnt as bad as obama when it comes to unnecessary travel and expense is sean spicer level stupidity. we have the numbers.

[spurraider21]

I don't think it is. The complaints were retarded then too.
Agreed. It's just fun to bring it up to expose hypocrisy and inconsistency

[hater]

Isnt Shillarys wide ass costing us a few million a month as well? And she aint even got a job :lol

[Trill Clinton]

:lol @ the butthurt "trump spent 11 million on travel"

He will never top the obamas taking two different planes to Hawaii on the same day. Air Force One just wasn't big enough for Michelle...she had to take her own plane...


Yea I agree , trump was butthurt about Obama golfing and traveling only to turn around and do the same thing.

[IceColdBrewski]

Wake me when Trump pulls an Obama and throws 1.7 billion at a terrorist country building nuclear weapons.

[Spurminator]

#yeahbutobama

[boutons_deux]

only to turn around and do the same thing.

... will be tons more expensive. Just wifey staying in NYC will cost $150M/year.

[IceColdBrewski]

#yeahbutobama

#thetruthhurtshuh?

Sorry, but anyone who stayed quiet about Obama giving 1.7 Billion to an American-hating country building nuclear weapons lost their right to complain about a measly (comparatively) 11 mil a month. It could be twice that much and I wouldn't give a shit. At least I know it's being spent on a President who cares about more than just half the country, and on a family that actually has pride in it.

But since you hate it when Obama is thrown back in the faces of the snowflakes, how bout this then. On his first day in office, Trump saved Americans 181 Billion by halting regulation spending. Wake me when that 11 mil a month reaches the 180 billion that he saved us in just his first day. Better?

[IceColdBrewski]

:lol @ the butthurt "trump spent 11 million on travel"

He will never top the obamas taking two different planes to Hawaii on the same day. Air Force One just wasn't big enough for Michelle...she had to take her own plane...

Yeah, but the Obama was royalty though. Every penny of yours that was spent on extra planes so that the Obamassiah's wife could enjoy some sight seeing was to be considered an honorable holy sacrifice.

[Spurminator]

#thetruthhurtshuh?

Sorry, but anyone who stayed quiet about Obama giving 1.7 Billion to an American-hating country building nuclear weapons lost their right to complain about a measly (comparatively) 11 mil a month. It could be twice that much and I wouldn't give a shit. At least I know it's being spent on a President who cares about more than just half the country, and on a family that actually has pride in it.

But since you hate it when Obama is thrown back in the faces of the snowflakes, how bout this then. On his first day in office, Trump saved Americans 181 Billion by halting regulation spending. Wake me when that 11 mil a month reaches the 180 billion that he saved us in just his first day. Better?

I'm happy to discuss the merits and flaws of the Iran deal in a thread where that topic is relevant, it's pretty fucking stupid to bring it up here. It's like me saying "Yeah, the Iran deal sucked, but at least Obama didn't drag us into a war in Iraq based on imaginary WMD's."

And then to call me the snowflake when you're the one flying off on an angry tangent about the in response to criticism of Trump.

[Spurminator]

And I certainly don't hate when Obama is thrown back in my face. If you guys want to keep reminding everybody of better times, be my guest.

trump president not obama

[IceColdBrewski]

I'm happy to discuss the merits and flaws of the Iran deal in a thread where that topic is relevant, it's pretty fucking stupid to bring it up here. It's like me saying "Yeah, the Iran deal sucked, but at least Obama didn't drag us into a war in Iraq based on imaginary WMD's."

And then to call me the snowflake when you're the one flying off on an angry tangent about the in response to criticism of Trump.

Oh ok. So if I look back through your post history, I'm sure to find a ton of instances where you were critical of a poster who invoked the name of Bush in defense of Obama, right?

[baseline bum]

true, this is the first president to ever be elected with a kid in school. please, take my money, trumps.

You're just being a petty twat. Criticize Trump for issues that matter, not for having to spend a lot on Secret Service protection.

[IceColdBrewski]

And I certainly don't hate when Obama is thrown back in my face. If you guys want to keep reminding everybody of better times, be my guest.




Riiiiiiiiight. Any time someone points out Obama's past failures in defense of Trump, you're quick to come crying about it. Usually with multiple posts over several hours, and sometimes even days. No biggie to you though, huh? :lol

[boutons_deux]

" someone points out Obama's past failures in defense of Trump"

... is exactly what ardent Catholic Rick "man on dog" Santorum did in the last day or so, deflecting to, blaming current antisemitism on Obama instead of Trash/Bannon

[Spurminator]

Oh ok. So if I look back through your post history, I'm sure to find a ton of instances where you were critical of a poster who invoked the name of Bush in defense of Obama, right?

You might... Go for it. I certainly wasn't the Obama cheerleader that you seem to be for Trump.

There were plenty of things I disagreed with him about and I certainly don't recall ever bringing up altogether unrelated topics from the Bush Presidency as a direct rebuttal to things Obama did.

Anyway, enjoy your scavenger hunt and do be sure to report back on your findings.

[Adam Lambert]

You're just being a petty twat. Criticize Trump for issues that matter, not for having to spend a lot on Secret Service protection.

who said anything about his secret service protection? every president gets protection.

[Spurminator]

Riiiiiiiiight. Any time someone points out Obama's past failures in defense of Trump, you're quick to come crying about it. Usually with multiple posts over several hours, and sometimes even days.

Is that right? I mean, I do post pretty regularly here but I don't recall a lot of lengthy rationalization of Obama policies in response to Trump cheerleading. Guess you can report back on that after your scavenger hunt too. Happy digging!

[Adam Lambert]

:cry :cry :cry muh trump :cry :cry :cry

[mavsfan1000]

#thetruthhurtshuh?

Sorry, but anyone who stayed quiet about Obama giving 1.7 Billion to an American-hating country building nuclear weapons lost their right to complain about a measly (comparatively) 11 mil a month. It could be twice that much and I wouldn't give a shit. At least I know it's being spent on a President who cares about more than just half the country, and on a family that actually has pride in it.

But since you hate it when Obama is thrown back in the faces of the snowflakes, how bout this then. On his first day in office, Trump saved Americans 181 Billion by halting regulation spending. Wake me when that 11 mil a month reaches the 180 billion that he saved us in just his first day. Better?
And btw that money is going to Americans. Not other countries. Security banking on Trump.

[z0sa]

I don't think it is. The complaints were retarded then too.

Yeah.

[Adam Lambert]

http://www.cnn.com/2017/04/10/politics/donald-trump-obama-travel-costs/index.html

lol 8 years of travel that were roundly bitched about by obama haters will be eclipsed in one fucking year by dear leader

one fucking year

[hater]

:lmao at the river of tears in here :lmao

[Kim Jong-il]

http://www.cnn.com/2017/04/10/politics/donald-trump-obama-travel-costs/index.html

lol 8 years of travel that were roundly bitched about by obama haters will be eclipsed in one fucking year by dear leader

one fucking year
:cry but but but he cut funding for endangered species and PBS, so that way his golf vacations are paid for :cry

[CosmicCowboy]

I can hardly blame him for wanting to be at Mar a Lago in the winter/spring. That place is fucking NICE compared to DC in the winter. Shit they just had snow like a week ago.

When Marjorie Post donated it to the government in 73 it was intended to be the "Winter White House".

Kind of funny that's how it's actually being used now.