Melania's hotel bills - Is she billing taxpayers for the hotel's best wine and liquor, to take home?

[highplainsdem]

I was reading the latest stories on the nearly $200,000 on hotel bills in Canada, though Melania didn't spend the night.

Which reminded me of her outrageous hotel expenditures for a day trip to Cairo.

And then I thought of something Michelle Obama just revealed on Jimmy Kimmel's show, when she mentioned that most people don't realize the First Family has to pay for their own food and drink in the White House.

The White House staff will get the family anything they request, but the president is billed for it.

But if a hotel's best wine or liquor is ordered from room service by the president or First Lady...

[hlthe2b]

1. Given it is verboten for Federal employees to be reimbursed for alcohol consumed while on travel

I think this ought to be looked into, frankly. Regardless they are bankrupting us, beyond Trump, Melania and all the kids' travel. There surely must be some way to reign it in....

[Autumn]

2. It wouldn't surprise me at all.

[912gdm]

3. that's an awful lot of bottles of baby booze.

still, who the hell knows with these people

[Solly Mack]

4. High end hotels tend to have high end shops - clothing, jewelry, etc..

I think she went shopping and they are hiding her expenses as official expenses.

Especially since she went hotel hopping.

[highplainsdem]

6. That's also possible, but I don't know if it would be quite as easy to hide on the bill as

something expensive ordered directly from room service. Or to hide from other people, including possibly media, in those shops.

Melania could easily spend many thousands of dollars on the priciest bottles of wine. And maybe some caviar. Just picking up a few treats for the Trumps' private parties over the holidays...

[PufPuf23]

5. Be interesting to have a line item list of the billing.

Hard to me to imagine the billings even at the most expensive places.

Is Melania renting entire floors, ordering $5000 bottles of wine, and having spending sprees at luxury shops on the premises?

[jaysunb]

7. Come January, comes Maxine Waters oversight committee.

This should be fun

[PufPuf23]

8. Entertaining but would rather thave the Trump circus disappear.

They are evil assholes and think they are entitled. May they have a rude awakening.

[smirkymonkey]

12. I really can't wait for Maxine to look into this.

They so have it coming to them. Where is all this money going? They are just taking us for a ride.

[TwistOneUp]

9. I really tried to like her...

But I smell Golddigger. It's a stink, actually...

[HipChick]

13. Since the Birther support..

she's a stinky racist like her husband...

[RockRaven]

10. I bet The Dotard owes lots of different hotel owners money, and this is a way to pay them back

without having to pay them back.

[EleanorR]

11. Melania Trump's security detail at Trump Tower cost taxpayers more than $100,000 a day

Stumbled across this. She doesn't have trouble spending taxpayer money, does she?

First lady Melania Trump's flights during a three-month period in early 2017 cost more $676,000 dollars. These flights took place while Melania lived with her son Barron at Trump Tower in New York City before moving into the White House in June.

The cost of these flights, which were conducted by the Air Force, cost about twice as much as former first lady Michelle Obama's annual private travel costs.

On top of these flight expenses, Melania's security detail at Trump Tower cost between $127,000 and $146,000 a day.

Although the records request only covers three months of this period, Melania still racked up quite a tab, taking flights between New York, Washington, DC, and Palm Beach, Florida, where she would fly to spend downtime in Trump's Mar-a-Lago club.



https://www.businessinsider.com/how-much-were-melania-flights-before-moving-to-the-white-house-2018-1

[dembotoz]

14. It's like when executives had unlimited expense accounts

They sure as hell didn't eat at McDonald's did they?

[customerserviceguy]

15. It wouldn't surprise me

Pouty models are known for being pretty high maintenance.

[TheBlackAdder]

16. Perhaps 500 lbs of French Milled bath soap went missing?

[Buckeyeblue]

17. This is crazy. The House needs to Investigate

I want an itemized receipt. Isn't that a public record?

[Johnny2X2X]

18. She's shopping, jewelry and clothes

The only way to spend that kind of money at a hotel is to hit the boutiques. She’s buying jewelry and designer dresses. Some of the fanciest stores for both are at luxury hotels.

If she’s letting the taxpayers pick up the bill she belongs in jail.

Since Trump took office it’s been open season of the US treasury. We’re (the taxpayers) are probably paying for Melania’s new diamonds and Dior dresses. This should be a scandal, but they’re robbing us blind in so many other ways it won’t be a blip.