Less than 2 months after going back to the White Home, Donald Trump has actually supposedly played golf on 13 of the 48 days he has actually been back in workplace– and the expense of those journeys to Florida has actually been installing.
On the exact same day his 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.
The White Home swimming pool report on Saturday (March 8) had him come to the Trump International West Palm Beach simply after 8:15 a.m. after a brief drive from his “Winter Season White Home” simply throughout the Intracoastal Waterway in Palm Beach correct.
According to an analysis by HuffPost, this is his 10th journey to the club, surrounding to Palm Beach International Airport, because his inauguration on January 20th. 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 evident persistence on investing his weekends (6 out of 7 up until now) 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 now increased.
Trump and his entourage fly down on Flying force One while the military transportations his motorcade cars utilizing C-17 airplanes at a large expense.
On the ground, because 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 waterway, while a Coast Guard vessel stays stationed off the beach in the Atlantic. Extra costs consist of regional police and explosive-sniffing canines.
Security has actually been significantly tightened up because the 2 assassination efforts on Trump throughout the 2024 project, the very first at the Butler rally in Pennsylvania, and the 2nd when a possible shooter was discovered concealing outside the extremely exact same West Palm Beach golf club.
After a week of inauguration occasions back in January, the president undertook his very first journey, flying from Washington, D.C., to North Carolina, California, and Nevada before heading to Florida.
When asked by press reporters on Flying force One whether he would be playing golf upon his arrival in the Sunlight State, Trump responded: “No. I do not believe so. I’m hectic.”
He was then imagined dipping into the Doral course in Miami in a tweet published by a Fox News press reporter.
On Saturday, the president left the West Palm Beach course at 1:23 p.m. with the swimming pool reporting he went back to Mar-a-Lago at “extremely high speed,” showing up back at the resort club at 1:29 p.m.