TAXPAYERS HAVE NOW PAID FOR TRUMP TO VISIT MAR-A-LAGO 100 TIMES
President Trump hit an important milestone as he returned to Florida over the Thanksgiving holiday: 100 visits to Mar-a-Lago. In 1,040 days as president, he has prioritized visiting his properties over the course of his presidency, making time for nearly 400 visits to the businesses that he still owns and profits from. Of all of his properties, it appears that Mar-a-Lago is his favorite to funnel untold sums of taxpayer money to, even rebranding Mar-a-Lago the “Winter White House.”
The president has visited Mar-a-Lago nearly 10% of the days he’s been in office, despite the fact that his use of the resort has prompted concerns about national security, profiteering, influence peddling and transparency. Now that Mar-a-Lago is Trump’s official residence, we can only expect more visits to the resort. While every President is entitled to maintain and visit a personal residence, Trump is the first modern president to routinely allow the funneling of federal and foreign government dollars to his pocket in this way. Here’s a look back at the lowlights:
January 2017: After 20 years of lawsuits about aircraft noise over Mar-a-Lago, Trump dropped the litigation when the Federal Aviation Administration limited flights allowed over the property.
February 2017: Japanese Prime Minister Shinzo Abe visited Trump at Mar-a-Lago for a weekend. Trump said he would pay for the visit, to avoid violating the Constitution’s Emoluments Clause. North Korea launched a missile during the trip, and Trump and Abe responded from dinner at Mar-a-Lago, raising security concerns about discussing foreign policy in a public dining room in front of customers
https://www.citizensforethics.org/trump-mar-a-lago-100-visits/