Familys elaborate lifestyle is a logistical nightmare at taxpayer expense

[struggle4progress]

By Drew Harwell, Amy Brittain and Jonathan O'Connell
February 16 at 5:06 PM

On Friday, President Trump and his entourage will jet for the third straight weekend to a working getaway at his oceanfront Mar-a-Lago Club in Palm Beach, Fla.

On Saturday, Trump’s sons Eric and Don Jr., with their Secret Service details in tow, will be nearly 8,000 miles away in the United Arab Emirates, attending the grand opening of a Trump-brand golf resort in the “Beverly Hills of Dubai.”

Meanwhile, New York police will keep watch outside the Trump Tower in Manhattan, the chosen home of first lady Melania Trump and son Barron. And the tiny township of Bedminster, N.J., is preparing for the daunting prospect that the local Trump golf course will serve as a sort of northern White House for as many as 10 weekends a year.

Barely a month into the Trump presidency, the unusually elaborate lifestyle of America’s new first family is straining the Secret Service and security officials, stirring financial and logistical concerns in several local communities, and costing far beyond what has been typical for past presidents — a price tag that, based on past assessments of presidential travel and security costs, could balloon into the hundreds of millions of dollars over the course of a four-year term ...

https://www.washingtonpost.com/business/economy/trump-familys-elaborate-lifestyle-a-logistical-nightmare--at-taxpayer-expense/2017/02/16/763cce8e-f2ce-11e6-a9b0-ecee7ce475fc_story.html?utm_term=.678f97870ab7

[Calculating]

1. Hey it's free money right?

He'd be stupid not to take advantage of it right? Remember when he was talking about how it was SMART to avoid paying federal income taxes?

[dalton99a]

2. "It's called OPM.

I do that all the time in business. It’s called other people’s money. There’s nothing like doing things with other people’s money."

[smirkymonkey]

3. I can't wait until this load of grifters are forcefully ejected from the

White House. Every last one of them disgusts me. They are worse than the worst robber barons of the Gilded Age. At least those people were philanthropists and had some decency and class.

[gopiscrap]

4. Fuck that

his POS of a wife isn't even legally in the US

[Calculating]

5. Playboy model who married into money

The embodiment of good work ethic and contribution to society.

[fierywoman]

6. all those lost millions could feed a lot of hungry people. or build a few bridges. or pave some

highways. or build some homeless shelters. or ...