Cha-Ching
So … putting pencil to paper, the Trump administration is trying to make a new law that says he does not have to disclose how much it has cost the taxpayers for him to travel about like the Prince of Siam (I have no idea what that means but my grandmother used to say it all the time.) until after the 2020 election.
Let me give you an idea about how awful this is.
The government spent about $96 million on travel by Obama over eight years, according to documents obtained by the conservative group Judicial Watch. A report by the Government Accountability Office, which serves as the congressional watchdog on federal spending, estimated that Trump’s travel cost $13.6 million in just one month in early 2017. That total included the costs of travel for Secret Service and Defense Department personnel, and the costs of renting space and operating equipment such as boats and planes. If spending continued at that pace, Trump would have exceeded Obama’s total expenses before the end of his first year in office.
I added some stuff up for 8 years of this crap and – voila! – that’s one billion, three hundred and five million and some change. We could move the whole Trump family to Mars for that, which ain’t a bad idea.
And then you consider that most of that money goes directly to Trump for his hotels and golf courses and Mara Lago, and hair spray and what not, then steam starts coming out your ears.
And he’s still blaming Obama for everything.