Trump On Fast Track To Outspend Obama’s Entire Travel Tab In A Single Year

[mystery-ak]

 04/11/2017 04:03 am ET |

Trump On Fast Track To Outspend Obama’s Entire Travel Tab In A Single Year
He has spent 21 days of his 80-day presidency at his Mar-a-Lago resort in Palm Beach, at an estimated cost of $21.6 million.
By Mary Papenfuss

After racking up an estimated $22 million travel tab in less than three months, Donald Trump is well on his way to spending more in a single year than Barack Obama spent on travel during all eight years of his presidency.

Trump has spent 21 days of his 80-day presidency at his Mar-a-Lago resort in Palm Beach, at an estimated cost of $21.6 million in travel and security expenses, CNN reported. In contrast, Obama spent a total of just under $97 million during his entire presidency, according to costs estimated by Judicial Watch.

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[Weird Tolkienish Figure]

Indefensible for a billionaire to get away with this IMO.

[Sanguine]

Indefensible for a billionaire to get away with this IMO.

It would be OK for a middle-class kind of person?

[Cripplecreek]

"Conservatives" will be saddled with this legacy for decades.

[corbe]

   Like a 'typical snowbird' someone in his Administration defended him by saying once the Heat and Humidity start to rise next month he'll stop going there for awhile. 
   The snowbirds are leaving my area now to make room for the drunk 'wackobirds'.
   It's always fun and the scenery is nice.

[Victoria33]

I knew he would keep up his millionaire/billionaire lifestyle and we would pay for it, including his whole family - a family dynasty.

[Smokin Joe]

That tab must not have included the Mooch and her entourage. I would think the SS would have a separate vehicle facility near/at Mar-a-lago by now, so that part shouldn't be as expensive. As for aircraft, what they need and what they take is another matter. Whatever he is on is Air Force 1, Marine 1, etc.

[ABX]

I knew he would keep up his millionaire/billionaire lifestyle and we would pay for it, including his whole family - a family dynasty.

I remember a lot of people passing around a meme during the campaign about Trump 'giving up his billionaire lifestyle to become a public servant' and I almost laughed. He wasn't giving up his lifestyle, he was having taxpayers subsidize it.

[Smokin Joe]

I remember a lot of people passing around a meme during the campaign about Trump 'giving up his billionaire lifestyle to become a public servant' and I almost laughed. He wasn't giving up his lifestyle, he was having taxpayers subsidize it.

Who owns the facilities? 

[Cripplecreek]

I remember a lot of people passing around a meme during the campaign about Trump 'giving up his billionaire lifestyle to become a public servant' and I almost laughed. He wasn't giving up his lifestyle, he was having taxpayers subsidize it.

Oh but he's donating his presidential salary to charity. 

[skeeter]

Something doesn't seem right here. I remember reading estimates that the Obama family's tour of Africa in 2013 alone ran from between 50 and 100 million dollars.

https://www.washingtonpost.com/politics/obamas-trip-to-africa-poses-special-challenges-enormous-costs/2013/06/13/29d9270a-cd29-11e2-8845-d970ccb04497_story.html?hpid=z3&utm_term=.cf74d350cafc

[skeeter]

Never mind. I just noticed the source.

[endicom]

Something doesn't seem right here.

Nothing here seems right.

[ABX]

Never mind. I just noticed the source.

Conservative site Judicial Watch is the original source of the numbers for Obama's travel costs.
http://www.judicialwatch.org/press-room/press-releases/judicial-watch-new-obama-travel-costs-bring-eight-year-total-96-million/

If Trump spent $21 Million in 3 months, then yes, he is on track to exceed Obama's $96 Million in one year.

[Frank Cannon]

These numbers don't add up. Obama spent almost 100 million on travel and he took far more elaborate trips than Donny. How are trips to the same location that is fairly secure to begin with outpace Martha's Vineyard, Chicago and Hawaii?

Either way, I think it is good he is getting called out on all these trips to FL. He has a govt' provided residence to conduct business. I don't give a shit if there isn't a golf course.

[ABX]

These numbers don't add up. Obama spent almost 100 million on travel and he took far more elaborate trips than Donny. How are trips to the same location that is fairly secure to begin with outpace Martha's Vineyard, Chicago and Hawaii?

Either way, I think it is good he is getting called out on all these trips to FL. He has a govt' provided residence to conduct business. I don't give a shit if there isn't a golf course.

There are some elements that may explain it. For example, most of Obama's golf trips were at places like the course at Andrews Air Force Base, which probably cost a small fraction of what Trump's resorts cost. In that line, much of the cost difference may be due to how much Trump's resorts are being charged to the government versus Obama had the propensity to stay at donor's vacation homes, probably not charged. http://dailycaller.com/2013/08/11/obama-stays-at-private-equity-gurus-7-6-million-marthas-vineyard-house/   (our side made a big deal of it at the time because of the expected quid pro quo).

Also remember during the campaign, FEC filings show Trump was charging his campaign out of the ass for rent on his own property, even his own office. He probably has continue to jack up prices that are billed to the government.

[skeeter]

Conservative site Judicial Watch is the original source of the numbers for Obama's travel costs.
http://www.judicialwatch.org/press-room/press-releases/judicial-watch-new-obama-travel-costs-bring-eight-year-total-96-million/

If Trump spent $21 Million in 3 months, then yes, he is on track to exceed Obama's $96 Million in one year.

How would that square with Obama's spending from between 50 and 100 million on a single trip to Africa?

[ABX]

How would that square with Obama's spending from between 50 and 100 million on a single trip to Africa?

I would trust Judicial Watch's final analysis of the actual government record over the Washington Post's guesstimate of what it could cost.  (ie. WP's article discusses what it 'could' cost before the fact, Judicial Watch checked what it actually cost after all the numbers were in)

[skeeter]

I would trust Judicial Watch's final analysis of the actual government record over the Washington Post's guesstimate of what it could cost.

Doesn't pass the giggle test - the discrepancy between the figures is too great. I suspect they may be comparing apples and oranges here.

[ABX]

Doesn't pass the giggle test - the discrepancy between the figures is too great. I suspect they may be comparing apples and oranges here.

I amended the post while you were typing.

The Washington Post article you cited, and many used for that number, was written before the trip and for all intents and purposes, was a guess. They weren't using real numbers as the event didn't even happen yet.

[Idaho_Cowboy]

Doesn't pass the giggle test - the discrepancy between the figures is too great. I suspect they may be comparing apples and oranges here.

There has got to be. Obama used to fly his dog around on a separate flight for crying out loud.

[Sanguine]

There has got to be. Obama used to fly his dog around on a separate flight for crying out loud.

And, his wife.

[ABX]

And, his wife.

That's what he meant... 
:)

[Sanguine]

That's what he meant... 
:)

 

[Smokin Joe]

That's what he meant... 
:)

No, darnit, the 4-legged one, not the silverback.