Will President Trump spend the majority of his weekends at Mar-A-Lago?

Here is one area Trump appears to be busy... running for re-election:
Report: Trump reelection effort raised $13.2 million so far in 2017
http://www.foxnews.com/politics/201...ffort-raised-13-2-million-so-far-in-2017.html

 

Makes the government spend at his places, places his family in key positions, spends his weekends golfing (every week) at his resort, keeps most of his family in his tower so the american ppl can spend an exorbitant amount on security and then claim he's a saint by not taking 400K in salary.

sugarlnd kid and the rest of the trumpers must be the easiest people to make a buck off of. (please please hmu for any bets)

 

I'm a little surprised that it isn't more. One would think that with the election of the 1%'s wet dream, they'd open their pocketbooks. The next presidential election cycle will see each major party spend a $$billion freakin' dollars, and perhaps more, in my opinion. That could be total spending for the House, Senate, and the presidency, but I don't think so. Pretty sure that I read that the GOP and the Democratic Party, and associated entities, each spent a $billion+ last year on the campaign for president. That's obscene. We need election reform in order to reign in spending. Instead, we seem to be going in the opposite direction, with spending on campaigns by the one percent of both parties (but much more on the GOP side) allowed to go unreported, much less limited. The amount of a donation should be limited for the House, Senate, and presidential campaigns. We need a level playing field, as level as we can make it, so average Americans have more of an impact on the process, the two major parties don't have to "beg" for money from the rich so they can compete, and third parties have a chance at, golly, picking up some House seats, if not winning Senate seats and the White House, at least at first. In my opinion, anyway (and I'm a Democrat).

And here's something else - it should be a LAW that a presidential and vice-presidential candidate HAS to release his or her tax returns, with no regard for hand size. There is absolutely no reason for trump not to release his. That he hasn't is an outrage.

 

I questioned the premise of this thread and asked why do yall care if the President spends his time at Maralago... The answer from the collective left has been, well since the right ripped Obama for going on trips, etc...Trump is fair game. NO one on this forum can definitively state they know what it costs President Trump's trips to Maralago. These estimates have been using faulty math from how it cost to transport Obama(the article below indicates a 2013 trip)...His travel has been a mix of business and leisure(he has already had foreign dignitaries at HIS place. It also helps that he goes to his OWN damn golf-courses if he wants to play.

http://www.chicagotribune.com/news/.../ct-trump-mar-a-lago-cost-20170412-story.html

After all the dusts settles, this ish is gonna fall right back onto yall's collective faces.

 

Trying to get to your "level of stupid"...but its proving to be an impossible feat.

 

We're simply using Trump's own criticisms, as well as other recognizable criticism of a president who plays lots of golf and takes time off. Seems fair game that his own words are used against him. Unless you think Trump and other republicans that attacked Obama previously were unfair and incorrect?

btw, this AP fact check prices out Trump's Mar A Lago junkets conservatively at $1 million each.

https://talkingpointsmemo.com/news/fact-check-trump-mar-a-lago-trips-cost

This article estimates the China Summit cost at $1.5 million

http://www.nbcnews.com/politics/whi...-travel-triggers-cost-ethics-concerns-n743541

 

"security risks" lol

 

Sure, whatever makes you feel better about it since this election was about score boarding and liberal tears etc. Hypocrisy abounds in politics, on both sides, but this bit can't be ignored. Not when a party, it's president, it's leaders and pundits made such a sanctimonious attack on President Obama over the issue while surpassing him in every category(amount spent, number of rounds, time).

In any case, agree or disagree, Happy Easter all!

 

As advisers cross globe to hotspots, Trump stays put
http://www.cnn.com/2017/04/17/politics/donald-trump-travel/index.html

 

With the Presidency being such a powerful office, and with the current laws being what they are; a billion dollars is NOTHING.

Honestly, with the influence and policy power the President has, I am surprised that someone hasn't been able to raise billions of dollars for their election campaign.

 

1. Taxpayers are paying not only for his frequent trips to Mar a Lago, but we're also footing the bill to secure his wife's home, in one of the most expensive areas of the world, that she refuses to leave. President Trump's frequent hosting of foreign leaders in Florida has already led to shoddy security (see: hotel guests taking photos of him and Shinzo Abe discussing North Korean missile launches and posting images of the armed serviceman in charge of the "nuclear football" online. These are mishaps that would not happen at the White House) that should concern you, but something tells me you'll rationalize why it doesn't.

2. The people who spent years complaining about the frequency of President Obama's golfing are silent on President Trump's outings. That he owns the clubs doesn't matter, they still need to be secured according to presidential standards. That costs money.

 

Concerning his salary, the American taxpayers are effectively paying twice if he donates it all to charity and then claims that on his tax return.

 

It's hard to imagine his health holding up for that long. He'll be 74 at the time of the next election. It's hard to imagine him living through this presidency but he doesn't seem to work himself too hard physically. It seems like he delegates a lot of stress to his staff/vp and lets them deal with the day to day so who knows. I mean, he doesn't look like the healthiest guy in the world but you never know. Two of the top 5 oldest presidents at inauguration died in office and Trump is now the oldest ever. Still, life expectancy in the 1800s is obviously not what it is today.

 

No, it just proves you're a pretty good hypocrite and bullshit artist.

 

1. It proves the hypocrisy of the criticism of Obama's work-lie balance, but whatever. I forgive hypocrisy easily compared to most.

2. Math aside, I know it costs a lot to provide security for a president on the move. If he needs an off-campus spot, Camp David was set up to be secluded and safe in a cost-effective way. But, even as a colossal waste of taxpayer money, it's nothing compared to what he can cost us with benighted policy decisions (or gain us with some hypothetical good decision).

3. What bugs me about it is that the selfishness and hypocrisy Trump displays in spending hundred of millions so that he can go to his own place is another data point to confirm for me what I already believe about him more generally -- that he puts his own advantage above the welfare of the country. So it matters to me really only in that it reminds me what a shitty president I have.

 

He eats like ****, so there's a good chance we get to see his massive coronary on live television.

 

Really deserves a thread of its own... My wife teaches at a preschool and the kids there need recess and "down time" too.



Link to article the excerpt comes from: http://www.politico.com/story/2017/04/27/the-education-of-donald-trump-237669

 

And people wonder why our economy is f@#%ed. . . .

 

It'll be on pay per view.

Host Ivanka is poised and ready to deliver.