Lara Trump stated Sunday that her father-in-law does not take any day of rests– while the president invested another weekend playing golf.
President Donald Trump has actually played golf 6 out of 7 weekends given that he went back to the White Home and on Saturday, he was at the Trump International West Palm Beach.
His daughter-in-law, now a Fox News host, talked to White Home press secretary Karoline Leavitt Sunday on Fox & Pals Weekend where she was discussing her absence of time off.
” I have not had a day of rest in most likely a year given that we have actually been on the project path,” Leavitt mentioned.
” You took one day off to deliver, and after that you were back at it the next day,” co-host Charlie Hurt inserted.
Lara Trump then stated: “All of us keep in mind from President Trump, and you and I both understand, he does not take any day of rests, so no one takes any day of rests.”
The remark comes as the president has actually apparently played golf on 13 of the 48 days given that going back to the White Home.
The expense of the journeys to Florida has actually been installing. According to an analysis by HuffPost, this is his 10th journey to the club, surrounding to Palm Beach International Airport, given that his January 20 inauguration. He has actually likewise golfed 3 times at Trump Doral, simply east of Miami International Airport.
The outlet claims, pointing out expenses from a 2019 Federal government Responsibility Workplace report, that the president’s obvious persistence on investing his weekends in Florida has actually now cost American taxpayers in excess of $18 million.
Throughout his very first term in workplace, the overall for these journeys was put at $151.5 million over 4 years, with the very first 4 journeys costing $3,383,250 each in 2017 dollars– an amount that, provided inflation, will have increased.
Trump and his entourage fly down on Flying force One while the military transportations his motorcade automobiles utilizing C-17 aircrafts at a significant expense.
On the ground, given that taking a trip from Mar-a-Lago to the golf club includes crossing back onto the mainland from the barrier island, authorities boats with gatling gun installed on the bows patrol the water, while a Coast Guard vessel stays stationed off the beach in the Atlantic. Extra expenditures consist of regional police and explosive-sniffing canines.
Security has actually been considerably tightened up given that the 2 assassination efforts on Trump throughout the 2024 project, the very first at a rally in Pennsylvania, and the 2nd when a prospective shooter was discovered concealing outside the really exact same West Palm Beach golf club.
Over the weekend, Trump’s treasured Scottish golf resort, Turnberry, was vandalized by pro-Palestinian activists in reaction to his “genocidal rhetoric” relating to the future of Gaza, the president was back on the course near Mar-a-Lago.