Right Wing Head Are Going To Explode

[erpowers]

CBS This Morning just pointed out that Donald Trump's travel this year could cost more than the cost of President Obama's travel over eight years. The reported began by mentioning that Trump has been at Mar-A-Lago for 11 of his 33 days in office and his three trips in a row have cost taxpayers about $10 million. Then there was a breakdown of the costs of getting Trump to and from Mar-A-Lago. Next, the report brought up Trump's criticism of President Obama's presidential travel. Then it gave the cost of eight years of President Obama's travel followed by the tidbit that Trump was on pace to surpass that number by the end of this year.

The report then moved on to pointing out the cost in lost business when Trump travels to Mar-A-Lago. Because planes are grounded when Trump is in town nothing goes in and nothing goes out of the area. As a result, the cost in lost business is $33,000 for each trip. The report ended on a high note for Trump in that someone who welcomed Trump's weekly travel was featured. A high end boutique owner stated that Donald Trump's visits would increase the number of high end shoppers who would visit the area and that would help everyone at the high end of the scale.

I imagine Republicans are going to say, but, but, Donald Trump is not just traveling to play golf with his rich friends like President Obama did when he traveled around the world and the United States; Trump is working while at Mar-A-Lago. I also imagine they will say, so what, Donald Trump needs a break because of the mess that President Obama left him and he is working so much harder than President Obama ever worked when he was in the White House. They will most likely say they did not have a problem with President Obama taking vacations. They just did not like that he never seemed to do his job and he was taking vacations when so many Americans were trying to find jobs, but could not gain full time employment. I am pretty certain they will claim 93 million American were unemployed during President Obama's time in office and that number has started to come down since Donald Trump election.

[Gothmog]

1. Trump does not want to do the job which is why he is not staying in the White House

[Cracklin Charlie]

5. According to a daily kos diary I read last night,

He is being haunted by ghosts in the White House.

He wanders the halls all night trying to avoid them.

[Blue_Roses]

18. What?

[Cracklin Charlie]

23. A daily kos diary.

Former republican with experience working in D.C.

Said he ran into an acquaintance who told him Trump is seeing ghosts in the White House, and that's why he leaves every weekend.

No idea if it's true.

[Blanks]

59. It'd make a damn fine SNL skit. eom

[samnsara]

36. I hope its hillary..

sneaking around under a sheet..... then meeting up with Biden for a glass of wine and a HUGE laugh! BOO!

[trixie2]

61. hilarious!

[louis-t]

46. That was satire.

But I do imagine that presidential ghosts are standing in line to slap him.

[irisblue]

65. they should be, he surely is a disgrace to their heritage.

[maddiemom]

29. He never wanted this job.

He just wanted to profit from all the publicity and exposure. That was the plan.

[Alice11111]

62. Exactly. It was a Win/Win game.

He never planned on winning, which probably made it easier to win, as it was all a game. So, he took risks.

It was in that sense a win/win. Ill either make a lot of money after the run and, what the hell, if I win, I'll be President, and then ill make a lot of money.

[virtualobserver]

32. ...but can he do the job?

[Freedomofspeech]

2. Good for CBS!

[forgotmylogin]

48. Ugh. I hate that "Winter White House" thing.

He should not be able to designate his hotel as "the white house" because it normalizes his vacationry.

[BSdetect]

3. He is a not careful with his own money so why expect he cares about the US economy?

You are correct re his supporters reactions. Fueled by GOP talking points and Fux Spews.

[n2doc]

4. IOKIYAR

They really don't care. At some point they will probably spin it as 'economic stimulus'

[kentuck]

6. He will end up making more money off his travels than Obama cost the taxpayers.

Would be my guess.

[NewJeffCT]

10. True - he's probably charging

the secret service and other support staff jacked up rates to stay at Mar A Lago, to be billed to Joe and Jane Taxpayer.

[SharonAnn]

34. Of course he is. And he (he owns it) receives the money.

Sweet!

[NewJeffCT]

7. With Trump, it's IOKIYAR

It's OK If You're A Republican.

His team has already has a lot of the Trump masses convinced the Trump has done more in his first month than many presidents do in a year or 4 years, even though it was easily proven false (Obama did way more his first month...)

[Bengus81]

8. Explode,nah...they'll embrace it as their Pres that works seven days a week....

I knew that clown was going to be there ALL the time when he suddenly named it the "winter WH". BTW,the Guardian has the number of days at eight since he took office not eleven. Which number is right?

https://www.theguardian.com/us-news/ng-interactive/2017/jan/20/donald-trump-first-100-days-president-daily-updates

[subterranean]

44. In a news report yesterday, I heard it called the "Southern White House."

That indicates he plans to do this throughout the year, not just in the winter.

[mcar]

9. Right wing heads won't explode

because they are hypocrites. Thus the phrase "it's OK if you are a Republican."

[narnian60]

25. +1

[Initech]

30. They won't explode, they'll just call it "fake news" or "alternative facts".

Because we live in a world where that's a thing now.

[erpowers]

50. Angry At the Press

I was not clear, but I meant Republican heads would explode with anger toward the press due to it being reported that Donald Trump is costing taxpayers millions of dollars. They do not want it to be reported that it is costing taxpayers more money to take care of Donald Trump than it cost to take care of Barack Obama. They also do not want it to be reported that Trump is working less that Obama.

[mcar]

55. You got that right!

[MrScorpio]

68. Damn Skippy! nt

[neeksgeek]

11. "that would help everyone at the high end of the scale"

This is pretty much all that matters to them.

[FailureToCommunicate]

12. Was there no mention of all the other taxpayer millions spent on his familie's travel and

his (current) wife and son living separately in Manhattan?

[Bengus81]

16. A total of $2 MILLION per day and MORE when they travel.

It could easily hit $ 1 BILLION per year for all protecting,not even counting the expense of AF1 when he's going to Florida every weekend.

[Initech]

33. What's driving me crazy is that this is the very thing they accused Obama of doing.

Their hypocrisy stinks to high hell!

[brush]

35. What gets me is we have to pay to protect his children-of-the-corn sons as they travel...

overseas to do deals or open golf courses to make money for his company. Nice work if you can get it.

What a racket. Weren't they traveling on their own dime before?

There ought to be a limit on that.

[logosoco]

42. This is what burns me.

When I see people posed with animals like elephants or something that was not killed for FOOD, I despise them. They make me ill. And that is exactly who these creepy sons are. They think somehow out of 7 billion people, they are above it all.
I don't wish ill on anyone, but I would love to see these types of people taken down a notch or three.

[Alice11111]

64. ...and they made Hillary pay when she rode w Obama on AF1, when he was speaking at her rally

So, he was going anyway, but he gave her a lift. The Repubs went nuts. She had to pay about $137,000, but I don't remember exactly. He gave Ted Cruz a lift to Dallas and Marco a lift once. Silence.

[erpowers]

51. No

It was just about the cost of getting Trump to and from Florida and the security that goes along with him being in Florida.

[hurple]

13. They especially hate

When Obama was on vacation all through the 9/11 and Katrina fiascos. How could he just stay on vacation while those thengs happened? Why was he not in the White House getting things done?

[SammyWinstonJack]

38. They really say that. Unbelievable.

[msanthrope]

14. Hypocrisy doesn't work on these people. nt

[Achilleaze]

15. Comrade Casino is freaking republican Welfare Princeling

I want a tax refund.

[JTFrog]

17. I'm wondering if Putin has My-A-Ego wired. Putin couldn't physically touch the White House,

but it's starting to look like Trump is bringing the White House to him on the weekends.

[ananda]

19. Whoa.

Speculation of the Year for sure!!

I also find this very plausible.

[logosoco]

43. That is an interesting theory.

I can't imagine how someone would not love to be in the White House. So much history! HE ran on "America first" but somehow his actions don't show that. He is too wrapped up in HIS properties, not what America is collectively.

[keithbvadu2]

58. Trump: 'I would rarely leave the White House'

Trump: 'I would rarely leave the White House'

http://thehill.com/blogs/in-the-know/245884-trump-i-would-rarely-leave-the-white-house

“I would rarely leave the White House because there’s so much work to be done,” Trump, 69, tells ITK. "I would not be a president who took vacations. I would not be a president that takes time off.”

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Yes, I would live in the White House because it’s the appropriate thing to do,” he says.

[LanternWaste]

20. the allegations floating around the conservative media in regards to Obama's trip to India

I remember the allegations floating around the conservative media in regards to Obama's trip to India said to cost $200 million a day and using up to one-third of the navy for escort (Michelle Bachmann, Glen Beck, etc.).

In fact, Bachmann said "He's taking two thousand people with him. He'll be renting out over 870 rooms in India. And these are 5-star hotel rooms at the Taj Mahal Palace hotel. This is the kind of over-the-top spending, it's a very small example, Anderson."

I doubt she'll make any mention of Trump's dacha in Florida... wouldn't be politic.

[Ligyron]

21. It's much easier for him to get away with treason and corruption at Mar-a-largo.

Less surveillance than the WH by far and he's no doubt busting his ass here alright: busily destroying the government.

I live in the same town and Trump's visits are not helping business one bit. Those high end buyers are here irregardless and travel thru Palm Beach and West Palm is quite restricted and completely contrary to those claims - this hurts local restaurants and shops significantly.

Someone in the MSM needs to interview some of the many bizz owners who can attest to this demonstrable fact easily.

[unblock]

22. it's far worse than merely being about 10 times the cost because some of it goes to donnie himself

of course republicans won't care in the slightest -- but imagine republican heads exploding if obama pocketed even $0.25 of the taxpayers' money as a vacation expense!

[BumRushDaShow]

24. Obama generally took 2 vacations a year

one usually in the summer at Martha's Vineyard and one around Christmas, in Hawai'i (where he was born and raised). The girls had a spring break one that he usually did not participate in. This was because the country was in the worst recession since the 1930s and would have easily qualified as a "depression" had it not been for the existence of FDR & LBJ-related safety nets.

This dunce is taking one every weekend and has the taxpayers funding 3 residences now.

[LAS14]

26. The problem is, Trump was right!

He could shoot someone in Times Square and it wouldn't phase his followers. I'm waiting and waiting to find out that the whole GOP are not that kind of follower. Not a lot of hope on that right now.

[Cosmocat]

27. I literally have to refrain myself from breaking things over Trump Tower

400,000 gd dollars a day.

Just imagine what would have happened if Michelle holed up with the girls in a tower in Chicago that cost 400,000 a day to provide security for.

Tyey make money off ALL of it, Trump Tower provide income to them, the trips his kids are making to open hotels and the such, and of course Mar a Lago.

Fucking grifters.

There is a LOT going on, but dems should absolutely be up the Rs asses in congress demanding that they find a way to require that the 45 clan reimburse the tax payers for security on any venture that makes their family business money.

[underpants]

28. Did they factor in the Children of the Corn's trip to Dubai to open a golf course?

Their heads won't explode. IF they hear about it they will use their delusion to excuse their Dear Leader.

[nolabels]

31. It's cost effective for him to lavish himself

The more time he spends pampering himself the less time he can actually spend doing something

[bluedigger]

37. Hypocrisy and cognitive dissonance are the glues holding American conservatives together.

Without them they would just dissolve into a puddle of primordial Randian muck.

[Sebasdad22]

39. There Is No Fuel In A Deplorable's Head To Explode

That's the problem.

Trump even boasts he can murder someone on 5th Avenue and his ghouls/zombies would love him more.

[Honeycombe8]

40. This makes me ill. Really. There should be a budget for this. nt

[nikibatts]

41. WRONG! The RW does not care about how much money is spent. Just who spends it.

As long as no non-white is spending the money or receiving the benefit, they don't give a damn about how much tax-payer money is being spent. PERIOD! Every GOP President and administration has fun up the deficit and Federal employment since and including Reagan. They don't care and it actually made them angry when Bill Clinton reduced the deficit and left a balanced budget.

Same way they were angry when Obama caught and killed Osama bin Laden. They are the worst kind of ilk.

[ailsagirl]

45. Good Grief!!

Makes me boiling mad

[elmac]

47. I hope he bleeds GOP land to the breaking point

then maybe they will think twice before voting for another fascist.

[workinclasszero]

49. Democratic president playing golf 4 times a year... horrible!

Republican tea bagger birther demagogue president golfing 10 times a month...great!

I'm sure the Reich wing outrage machine will get right on Dumps ass about this 24/7.

[JHB]

52. Nah, no explosion. IOKIYAR

[Lanius]

53. Don't you know that Drumpf will save the economy?

So all this travel money is chump change for when he brings back jobs and we get 5% growth.

[Kimchijeon]

54. Nah, their heads are full o'rocks and dirt

Nuthin's gonna get through to 'em they only hear what they want to believe.
Dumbasses.

[Squinch]

56. You will not hear a peep from the right wing. Because they're lousy hypocrites.

[Bernardo de La Paz]

57. tRump doubled the initiation fee for Mar-a-Lago this year, effectively profiting on access. . . nt

[Blue Owl]

60. Wow, didn't see that one coming

[JI7]

63. HUGE DIFFERENCE. Obama was black

which made it NOT OK .

now all is ok .

[JawJaw]

66. Trump doesn't give a rat's ass

about the negative Trump effect on the "little people" in his way.

Just look at how he treated those poor Scottish villagers when he wanted to build his stupid golf course.

[treestar]

67. I came across some BS that he was working there

and has his own facilities.

I said well there are good facilities in DC provided for the purpose.

[IronLionZion]

69. This should be the last year of his presidency

I'm hoping he quits soon