"All these Trumps are getting damned expensive"

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https://www.nytimes.com/2017/02/10/opinion/footing-the-bill-for-trumps.html?ribbon-ad-idx=2&rref=opinion&module=Ribbon&version=context&region=Header&action=click&contentCollection=Opinion&pgtype=article



Footing the Bill for Trumps


https://www.nytimes.com/2017/02/10/opinion/footing-the-bill-for-trumps.html?ribbon-ad-idx=2&rref=opinion&module=Ribbon&version=context&region=Header&action=click&contentCollection=Opinion&pgtype=article

Gail Collins FEB. 10, 2017




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President Trump and his wife Melania arrived at Palm Beach International Airport on Friday, on their way to Mar-a-Lago. Credit Al Drago/The New York Times

All these Trumps are getting damned expensive.

Last month, taxpayers forked over nearly $100,000 to protect Eric Trump while he was on a business trip to Uruguay. And the Defense Department is looking to rent space in Trump Tower — which goes for as much as $1.5 million a year per floor — so .............


The mere idea of Donald Trump and the nuclear codes is way more disturbing than the money. But still, critics claim that Melania Trump’s decision not to move into the White House is costing the country more in security than the annual budget for the National Endowment for the Arts.

Melania is staying in New York so her son, Barron, can continue at his school. ..................


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On the other hand, she never filed a lawsuit claiming an erroneous news story had hurt her ability to market a “broad-based commercial brand” while she had an unmatchable opportunity to be in the public eye as first lady.

Melania says her legal actions are completely misunderstood.

Conservatives used to have a field day complaining about the high cost of moving the Obamas around. The future President Trump himself once tweeted: “The habitual vacationer, @BarackObama, is now in Hawaii. This vacation is costing taxpayers $4 million +++ while there is 20% unemployment.”

The unemployment rate was not, at the time, anywhere near 20 percent. And last weekend Trump happily ran up a federal bill of around $3 million for a trip to Mar-a-Lago where he watched the Super Bowl and dropped in on a Red Cross ball, which presumably brought his resort a hefty fee.

Yeah, it’s the profit-making end of the story that’s so irritating. When Eric Trump went to Uruguay, his mission was to promote Trump Tower Punta del Este. “We’re going to have an amazing company,” Eric told the local media, adding that his father was going to do “amazing things for the United States.” And that Dad would be “an incredible commander in chief.” The apple doesn’t fall far from the tree, adjective-wise.

The president has theoretically separated himself from all his businesses, but they still belong to him............................

[democratisphere]

1. Who knew we would have to support the entire extended drumpf family and tons of wayward billionaires

Milking and bilking the system.

[Fast Walker 52]

5. they are the ultimate grifters.... the sooner we get rid of them, the better

[Rhiannon12866]

2. Whenever I hear numbers like this, I think "How many could that amount feed??"

[jmowreader]

3. Or how many roads could it build, how many helicopter engines could it buy...

In short, how many of the things this country NEEDS are being put on the back burner so we can spend over half a billion dollars per year on this maniac's family?

[Rhiannon12866]

4. Exactly, it's such a waste and there are so many places where needed funds could be better spent

For someone who claims to be so wealthy, he seems determined to waste taxpayer funds. One particularly egregious instance is a story that Rachel Maddow has been reporting. Trump owns a business site in SC that requires cleanup of toxic pollution which he expects the taxpayers to foot the bill for, says it was the responsibility of the former owner - which turns out to have been his own son. And then there are the trips by numerous members of his extended family...

[Fast Walker 52]

6. it's freaking sickening... the whole GOP needs to go, from root to branch

for unleashing this monster on us

[Rhiannon12866]

7. The Republicans are in for a rude awakening,

Though most of them have already experienced it. He is not one of them, never was, Trump is only in anything for himself. I'm hoping that there's a backlash, well before or in time for the next election.

[Fast Walker 52]

8. there's already a huge backlash

I just hope we can keep the momentum going