On February 17, President Trump will head to his $200,000-per-membership Mar-a-Lago club in Palm Beach for the third consecutive weekend, according to the Palm Beach Post.
Each trip reportedly costs taxpayers upward of $3 million.
Trump’s reluctance to spend a weekend in Washington stands in contrast to what he promised during the campaign, when he said he’d “rarely leave the White House.”
“I would rarely leave the White House because there’s so much work to be done,” Trump told a reporter in 2015. “I would not be a president who took vacations. I would not be a president that takes time off… You don’t have time to take time off.”
Three million. More than that actually, but even a flat three million, for a fucking weekend? This totals to over 9 million for a month in office. Repubs howled with outrage if the Obama family even mentioned the word vacation, but this flagrant misuse of funds meets with silence? That’s bad enough, but given Trump’s penchant for being seen unpresidenting and making himself a massive security leak, shouldn’t someone in the capital tell Donny no? As there seems to be no effort at all in impeaching the tiny tyrant, someone will have to step up and explain to his idiotness that no, the presidency is not a reality show.
Earlier Saturday, Trump played golf with Abe — marking the second time he hit the links since his January 20 inauguration. Trump repeatedly criticized President Obama for golfing during his presidency:
Trump has golfed two weekends in a row (out of 4 as president).
Here are 11 times Trump criticized Obama for playing golf as President. pic.twitter.com/MTeinCAi1S
— Brian Klaas (@brianklaas) February 11, 2017
If the hypocrisy of republicans were a noise, everyone on the planet would be stone deaf. Disgusting. Think Progress has the full story.
Marcus Ranum says
That swamp is not looking any drainedier.
Giliell, professional cynic -Ilk- says
As I said, it’s not even corruption anymore.
Corruption at least tries to look like it was morally OK.
Caine says
No, it’s way past corruption. We’re well into the “I can do whatever I want!” foot stomping stage.
Pierce R. Butler says
Pls recall the last (ahem!) holiday season, when R. Priebus rejoiced that “we have a new King!”
Crimson Clupeidae says
I only wish we could harness the power of republican hypocrisy to run the grid.
It’s still not clean energy, but hey.