Trump Likely To Vist Mar-A-Lago Every Weekend Until May

[erpowers]

CNN is reporting that businesses near Mar-A-Lago have been told Trump will not be at Mar-A-Lago next weekend because he will be preparing for his speech before a joint session of Congress. However, on March 4, he will resume his weekend trips and will return to Mar-A-Lago every weekend until May.

http://www.cnn.com/2017/02/20/politics/donald-trump-mar-a-lago-palm-beach/index.html

So, at $3 million a weekend, taxpayers could end up paying $27 million for Trump's trips if he stops going at to Mar-A-Lago at the end of April. If he stops at the end of may the cost will rise to $39 million. All of Trump's travel to Mar-A-Lago in the first 4-5 months of his presidency will likely cost taxpayer between $37-$49 million. $49 million would be roughly half of the estimated cost of President Obama's vacation travel over eight years.

Will Trump be going from Washington, D.C. to Mar-A-Lago every weekend from January to May every year? I assume during his fourth year he will be campaigning and that will keep him from going to Mar-A-Lago every weekend. However, if for his first three years in office he repeats this year's January to May schedule it seems like the cost to taxpayers will be $111-$147 million.

[Doreen]

1. Why until just May?

I think he will go any damn time he wants any time of the year.

[lunatica]

3. I'm sure he has nothing regarding doing anything differently on his calendar

And I'm also sure he has all weekends marked as Mar-a-lago.

The man knows full well how to indulge very whim he has.

[In_The_Wind]

4. After May the weather becomes very hot and humid.

He'll probably head north to NYC for the summer weekends.

[briv1016]

9. So at that point Melania will be spending weekends in DC.

Or over seas.

[Lucinda]

10. This.

[smirkymonkey]

19. NYC is pretty beastly in the summer as well.

Don't they have a place in CT somewhere? It seems like someone who is a "rich" as he is would have numerous personal properties all over the globe.

[Tanuki]

20. Bedford, New York. All this for someone who has not paid any federal income taxes in two decades...

https://www.google.com/amp/www.nydailynews.com/amp/life-style/real-estate/donald-trump-vast-portfolio-private-homes-article-1.2305847

4. Seven Springs

Trump also owns a grand private summer retreat in Bedford, N.Y., with 60 rooms, two servants wings, 15 bedrooms, three pools including one cased in Italian marble, a bowling alley and 230 acres of land.

He originally purchased the property, known as Seven Springs, for $7.5 million in 1996 with a view to transforming it into another Trump-branded golf course but ultimately dropped the plans. There are currently approvals to build 14 other homes on the estate, but Trump has not made use of them so far.

Instead, the Trump family uses the property as a retreat from the city, riding ATVs, going on hikes and fishing. Trump also reportedly allowed Libya's Muammar Gaddafi to stay in a tent there while attending the UN Summit, when no hotels would have him.

The main house, which was built by late Federal Reserve Chairman Eugene Meyer, dates back to 1919.

[Ezior]

5. May is impeachment month :-)

I had hoped for March, but maybe most of us can survive 2 more months of Trump.

[murielm99]

2. Do they have hurricanes there?

[Vinca]

6. What a scam this guy is running.

He's pretty much just fucking around as he did before being POTUS, only now we're picking up the tab.

[Angry Dragon]

7. He will not last that long

[Grammy23]

8. That's why they started calling it The Winter White House.

And yes, hurricane season begins June 1st and the weather outside (golf courses) is really unpleasant with the humidity, bugs, etc. The winter this year has been missing for most of the south so the summer like weather could easily start in April or May. Here in Pensacola our high today is headed toward high 70s and that is many hundreds of miles north of Palm Beach. So tRump probably won't spend too much time there after May.

They wanted us to start thinking in terms of tRump being in Palm Beach rather than DC...guess they were hoping we wouldn't notice it costs a bazillion dollars every time he jaunts down there. They threw up the smoke screen that he is "working" while he is there, too. Does the cost include bringing in the various people he has met with and interviewed at Mar-a-lago?

[Tanuki]

12. I'm glad that the CNN article in the OP consistently called the property

by its correct name, Mar-A-lago, and did not validate or reinforce Trump's ridiculous and cynical "Winter White House" and "Southern White House" marketing scheme.

[Ilsa]

11. I've complained to my congressman. They were unaware

of the bill 45 was running up. I told them it would end up being 4-5 times the cost of travel for PBO, and that it was wasteful spending of tax money.

[HipChick]

14. Thank you..contacting my congressman too..

[delisen]

13. Mar a Lago Needs to Be Given to Challenged Children for 2-week Winter Camp

Children and families can be flown in for camp experience. and their parents will be given respite services.

Or it can serve as a boarding school for teenagers who are US citizens but whose parents have been deported.

[Ilsa]

15. Not safe for the kids. Staff should be vetted,

Certain staff needs to be checked out on First Aid, CPR, and make sure they aren't pedophiles.

Property likely needs adjustments for ADA compliance. I read the 45 hates ADA compliance requirements.

[Initech]

16. Next republican who complains about wasteful government spending is getting slapped in the face.

It's OK if their side does it.

[Tanuki]

17. Meanwhile, EPA staff who were scheduled to attend a confetence in Alaska

were told at the last minute uterus that half of them would have to stay home to save on wasteful travel expenses.
http://www.npr.org/sections/thetwo-way/2017/02/10/514479451/epa-halves-staff-attending-alaska-environmental-conference

...."This is one small example of how EPA will be working cooperatively with our staff and our outside partners to be better stewards of the American people's money," Ericksen said.

Some EPA staff whose plans to attend the conference were revoked would have come from Seattle or Washington, D.C. — but Eilo said others are based just blocks away from the downtown Anchorage site.

Eilo himself was an EPA enforcement officer when he founded the Alaska conference two decades ago. He says this is the first time he can recall this happening. While he understands the impulse to review travel spending, he says the cutbacks also raise a red flag.

"There's a lot of uncertainty among folks here at the forum," Eilo said. "There's concern about the tribal programs, there's concern about how we're going to address things like climate change in the next upcoming administration.".......

[Johonny]

18. At least congressional rethugs will be punished by having to listen to one of his rambling speeches

where no doubt he will yell at them constantly, boast about himself, attack the media, hate on people that can think at all, and then talk about something stupid he saw on FOX the night before that has nothing to do with anything.

That's their punishment for help make this crapfeast possible