Down The Middle News: Americans paid $3.4 million for Trump to hold a Florida Super Bowl party

The American taxpayer is footing a $3.four million invoice for Trump to carry a Tremendous Bowl get together at his golf membership in Florida Sunday. However, they’re not invited.

The Huffington Submit charted the general prices of President Donald Trump spending one other weekend away from the White Home.

“The president’s official schedule reveals him spending two and a half hours Sunday night at a ‘Tremendous Bowl LIV watch get together’ at Trump Worldwide Golf Membership in West Palm Seashore. Tickets bought for $75 every, however have been solely out there to members of the membership — the initiation price for which reportedly runs about $450,000, with annual dues costing a number of hundreds of {dollars} extra.

The determine comes from the GAO’s report on every of Trump’s journeys to Mar-a-Lago, which runs taxpayers about $3.four million only for the journey, advance and safety required. There are substantial prices to safe the membership as a result of it has water entry.

It marked Trump’s 246th day on the golf course out of 1,108 days Trump has been in workplace. It means he’s spent 22 % of his time in workplace {golfing}.

“Nicely, clearly there aren’t any TVs within the White Home, so what different did he have?” requested Public Citizen director Robert Weissman. “He may have saved cash by chartering a aircraft and flying membership members to observe the sport on the White Home.”

“The premise of your story is ridiculous and false, and simply extra left-wing media bias on show,” stated White Home press secretary Stephanie Grisham. “The president by no means stops working, and that features when he’s on the Winter White Home.”

The “Winter White Home” is what Trump calls his golf course. It’s truly an unique for-profit membership. The White Home is owned by the American individuals and is sometimes called “the individuals’s home.”

When requested what Trump did over the weekend, the White Home stated he had a number of telephone calls and “conferences with employees.” There have been many issues Trump may very well be engaged on, however he opted to take to the golf course.