NotMAGA Loc: Upstate NY - in a very red county

Obama DID release all his tax returns though. 😁

JFlorio Loc: Seminole Florida

Trump businesses were paid for services rendered. I’m against it personally, but certainly nothing illegal. Those services would have to be paid. Whether to Trump hotels or the Marriott.

Radiance3

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And why would they? Republicans don't vote for Democrat primaries.

In South Carolina, many Democrats vote for GOP Primary. Fact is a billionaire Democrat funded Haley about $70 million to continue.

NotMAGA Loc: Upstate NY - in a very red county

The point is the grifter in chief grifted millions from American taxpayers by taking trips to his OWN resorts every weekend..two or three nights every week, fir a full complement of SS detail.

I wouldn't be surprised if he charged us for his OWN rooms.

NotMAGA Loc: Upstate NY - in a very red county

In some states it doesn't matter. Republicans can vote in Dem primaries and vice versa. Or people can change party affiliation the day before a primary. Not in NY.

JFlorio Loc: Seminole Florida

Biden’s doing it also. Most do. I’d love to see every damn politician have to live like the rest of us. He did not go to his resorts every weekend. That’s another lie. Man, your hate knows no bounds.

NotMAGA Loc: Upstate NY - in a very red county

From an Aug. 27, 2020 article:

"President Trump has visited or stayed at one or more of his properties on 394 separate days since becoming president. That figure amounts to almost one third of his time in office at one of his properties, or well over a year of his presidency."


https://www.citizensforethics.org/reports-investigations/crew-investigations/trump-500-visits-trump-properties/


And another, from the day he left the WH for good. With a chart of which days were spent where over the four years he was in office:

https://www.washingtonpost.com/politics/2021/01/20/trumps-presidency-ends-where-so-much-it-was-spent-trump-organization-property

Trump’s presidency ends where so much of it was spent: A Trump Organization property
Analysis by Philip Bump
National columnist
January 20, 2021
Were he elected, Trump promised, he’d be “working for you,” as he said that August. “I’m not going to have time to go play golf.”

It took two weeks for President Trump to find the time.
...
There were two periods where he made relatively few trips to his properties. The first was when the government was partially shut down at the end of 2018 after Trump demanded Congress appropriate money to build a wall on the border with Mexico. The other was at the start of the coronavirus pandemic... a lull that ended when a leading government official on the pandemic task force explicitly stated it was once again okay to play golf.

Here are Trump’s visits to his properties by the numbers:

Trump has visited a Trump Organization property on 428 days of his presidency, or one visit every 3.4 days. That means that he has visited on about two days of every week of his presidency.
Normally, those two days are weekend days. It was common for him to head to his golf club in Sterling, Va., on warmer weekends when he was in Washington. He visited that club on 106 days, probably playing golf on 103 of them. It was the property to which he paid the most visits.
He was president for 418 weekend days. He visited one of his properties on 240 of those days, or on 57 percent of them.
Trump probably played 261 rounds of golf as president. This is just an estimate because, unlike Obama, his team often wouldn’t report whether he was playing golf at his properties. If accurate, though, that’s a round every 5.6 days. By contrast, Obama played 333 rounds of golf — over twice as many years. That’s about once every 8.8 days.
Trump spent the most time at Mar-a-Lago. He was there for all or part of 142 days of his presidency over 32 visits. He was at his private club in Bedminster, N.J., on 106 days, the same number as the visits he paid to Sterling.
The course where Trump played the second-most rounds was Trump International Golf Club in West Palm Beach, Fla., a short drive from Mar-a-Lago. He played there an estimated 87 times.
As president, he visited 14 Trump properties in seven states, the District of Columbia and three countries, including Scotland and Ireland. He only played two rounds of golf that weren’t at Trump properties; both were in the company of then-Japanese Prime Minister Shinzo Abe in Japan.
The amount of government money spent shuttling Trump to his properties and then spent at the properties remains a bit murky. We know that Trump’s first four trips to Mar-a-Lago cost about $14 million, mostly in the costs of operating the aircraft necessary for the trip. If we assume that each trip to the resort costs about $3.4 million, that’s $109 million just for the Mar-a-Lago trips alone.
Not all of that money goes to Trump, of course. The Washington Post reported in October that the government had been billed about $2.5 million by Trump properties since he had taken office.
Interestingly, Trump only visited the Trump hotel in Washington about two dozen times, despite its proximity to the White House. He returned to Trump Tower in New York only eight times.

4522chief

But you were OK with Obama taking his Christmas vacation in Hawaii at our expense and his wife going to Africa? That trip cost us mega millions!

NotMAGA Loc: Upstate NY - in a very red county

This seems to be missing something - namely a link to a factual article that explains how the taxpayers had to pay for the Obama's vacation.

NotMAGA Loc: Upstate NY - in a very red county

Like this:
https://obamawhitehouse.archives.gov/youngafrica

PeterS

And exposing Donald Trump's dementia is a deflection?

4522chief

Apparently you didn’t watch the news and saw all of the secret service involved in Hawaii and the Africa trip where Michael took a bunch of friends, secret service and the hospital ship off the coast of Africa. While I am thinking about it how does Biden own four very expensive homes on his 175,000 salary? Michael telling us we have to do with a little less so everyone can do better? Too bad we all can’t buy a 8 million home in DC and a 14 million home in Martha’s Vineyard. Trump over the years created jobs and actually built things. Obama and Biden produced nothing.

PeterS

Do you have a link where this number comes from? The only thing I could find was an estimation of 155 because of the requirements to get into Whorton but this was for freshmen and Trump transferred as a Junior which doesn't have the same requirements as freshmen and since Trump would never release any of his transcripts (I wonder why?) it would be impossible to estimate his IQ in this fashion. Unless you can provide a link the number you have is bogus...

https://www.jacksonville.com/story/news/reason/2017/01/24/fact-check-how-smart-president-elect-donald-trump-iq-score-isn-t-official/985477007/

PeterS

Any trip a president takes is going to cost millions. Trump left every Thursday and there wasn't a single conservative who cared about the millions it cost just so he could make his tee time...

Big dog

Either this is written by a barely skilled person that thinks on a third grade level or someone that is trying to convince 2 graders with some really poor propaganda to vote Democrat in 15 years.