Politics : Trump is stressing out the Secret Service

I get they are a most different family and the costs are minor compared to the overall federal budget, but protecting the billionaire first family's lifestyle does come at a cost to us taxpayers.

No there is no law that requires it (just like on releasing tax returns), but seems if Trump is worth the ten billion he claims a good move might be throwing the gov some millions in pocket change each year just to make up for it.

Used to be we had some kind of winter White House and maybe a couple kids going to school. Now we got Palm Beach, Trump Tower, Bedminster New Jersey (Trump Tower don't work?) and wherever Don Jr, Eric and Ivanka jet too.

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Friday, President Donald Trump and his entourage will jet for the third straight weekend to a working getaway at his oceanfront Mar-a-Lago Club in Palm Beach, Florida.

On Saturday, Trump's sons Eric and Don Jr., with their Secret Service details in tow, will be nearly 8,000 miles away in the United Arab Emirates, attending the grand opening of a Trump-brand golf resort in the "Beverly Hills of Dubai."

Meanwhile, New York police will keep watch outside the Trump Tower in Manhattan, the chosen home of first lady Melania Trump and son Barron. And the tiny township of Bedminster, New Jersey, is preparing for the daunting prospect that the local Trump golf course will serve as a sort of northern White House for as many as 10 weekends a year.

Barely a month into the Trump presidency, the unusually elaborate lifestyle of America's new first family is straining the Secret Service and security officials, stirring financial and logistical concerns in several local communities, and costing far beyond what has been typical for past presidents - a price tag that, based on past assessments of presidential travel and security costs, could balloon into the hundreds of millions of dollars over the course of a four-year term.

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http://www.chicagotribune.com/news/nationworld/politics/ct-trump-lifestyle-taxpayers-20170216-story.html

Disgusting.

Not thinking it is disgusting.I figure you got the money then live your lifestyle. Just not sure I like paying for it.

Big Effen Deal. They'd all rather work for Trump than that disgusting troll Hillary.

I it not a big dealwho was saying it was? Don't you think it would be a nice move for Trump with all the billions to make up for the extra cost though? Would be great PR at least.

And yeah on Hilary. Have known two secret service guys.they both said she was bioootch from hellll to deal with. And these are guys who loved both Bill C and the elder Bush. So it was not about politics.

the U.S. will make up the expense by paying for fewer green fees than the U.S. did during the Obama years

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the U.S. will make up the expense by paying for fewer green fees than the U.S. did during the Obama years

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Good point. Just like he did with the Prime Minister of Japan, Trump does prefer to play on the golf course he owns. So hopefully we don't pick up the per-round cost. That could add up to quite a bit in savings.

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So hopefully we don't pick up the per-round cost. That could add up to quite a bit in savings.

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I don't think so. That's a personal expense, which the president would be responsible for paying himself.

Somehow I doubt that the president ever pays for green's fees. Somehow it all gets either comped or charged as government expense to entertaining dignitaries or something.

I sincerely doubt President Trump is personally paying for any of his personal expenses. All he would have to do is invite some foreign dignitary or CEO buddy along for the round and BOOM! That personal golf outing becomes an official Presidential meeting and the taxpayer is on the hook.

As a CEO, President Trump is well aware of 'working lunches' and business meetings taking place on the putting green.





I don't want to belong to any club that will accept people like me as a member

I expect you're right about that. I've never been troubled by presidential vacations and rounds of golf. I figure it's part of the cost of attracting people to the job who have viable career options beyond mopping the floor at Walmart. I'm of the firm belief that the president is never really on vacation.

Trump's vacations only concern me to the extent that the represent such blatant hypocrisy after the way he squawked about Obama's vacations and golf games.

Yeah, I've never much worried about Presidential vacations either. It's not like they are ever really off the clock or anything. But as I said below, my concern is the fact that the tax payers are essentially enriching President Trump financially and through brand exposure every time he goes down to Mar-A-Lago. It's slimy as hell.



I don't want to belong to any club that will accept people like me as a member

Trump Tower, Mira-alog and apparently he plans to spend a bunch of time at his golf course in NJ too as he jumps around. Each one has to be secured at public cost. No matter what Obama did on his twice yearly vacations or going to Camp David (which is always secured), I at least see that as a bit different.

And yes the kids might pay there own way, but being a pres' kid comes with a secret service detail. And anytime they or the Pres travels to an "unsecured location" they send out an advance team to secure before they get there. According the one secret service guy I knew, at least a week before. Maybe Don Jr. pays his own travel, but somehow doubting he does for his detail and the advance team when he travels.

You are right that we won't be able to follow after this place closes down, but at this point don't see how the cost of protecting this family is greater than any in our lifetimes.

And costing us a lot of money with three households and all that traveling in his private jets.


The news is real. The President is fake.

No doubt the new first family comes with a different lifestyle in hand. But then we never had a billionaire pres before. Only one who might have relatively that was George Washington, but that was back before they even had a Secret Service.

And yet they pissed and moaned about the exorbitant expense when President Obama would spend his Christmases in Hawaii.

Now, it's .


So it goes.

It'll probably take a while for Trump to equal the expenditures all the vacations that the Obama's and Moo-chelle's mother took at taxpayer expense.

People on here and Twitter are still repeating those crazy fake stories about it costing millions and millions for weekend golf and all that. These people believe anything. Their's also someone saying Trumps costs are 12 billion. I don't believe anything without fact checks because I want the truth. Tplast and others like him, do not.

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Funny that you didn't say the same to the OP or the news article quoted. Untold millions were spent on Obama vacations.

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It'll probably take a while for Trump to equal the expenditures all the vacations that the Obama's and Moo-chelle's mother took at taxpayer expense.

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Given that Obama was Pres for eight years.no doubt on that one.

But are you trying to say that the expense of the Trump family will be less say per anum or simply that Presidents cost money?

You know, I'm not sure of that one. On the one hand, Trump is a billionaire (so he says) and lives a certain level of life style. On the other, he has (I've heard) forgone all but one dollar of the presidential salary.

I don't think it was eight years that produced the Obamas' vacation expenditures.

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On the other, he has (I've heard) forgone all but one dollar of the presidential salary.

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So you saying the salary on that matters much to him? That was a good move on his part, but surely you know what a small amount it is.

And what do you mean by "I don't think it was eight years that produced the Obamas' vacation expenditures."? How other than the eight years could it have some about? Maybe I missed your point.

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So you saying the salary on that matters much to him? That was a good move on his part, but surely you know what a small amount it is.

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No, I meant that it didn't, given his aggregate wealth.

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And what do you mean by "I don't think it was eight years that produced the Obamas' vacation expenditures."? How other than the eight years could it have some about? Maybe I missed your point.

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I think his vacation costs were considered extravagant, considering how many he took and the luxury involved. Meaning each one was a considerable charge to the taxpayer.

Why were Obama's vacatoins any more extravagent than the Bushes?

Am sure you get how the set-up now with Trump is most different, which is the point of the article in the OP. Are you suggesting the Ttump set up with all the jumping around of places each week for weekend travel, a wife in the middle of NYC, and his kids jet-setting around will cost less somehow?

Just don't see how that could be, but have been wrong many times before.

Pssh. Trump will blow past that in a few months just for the cost of securing Trump Tower in NYC. Paying for his traveling entourage and his children's travels is going to make the $85 million people have been b!tching about look like chump change, bigly.


Anything can be a game as long as there's a loser.

Go back to having a three-way with your mamma and sistah, lame-a*s. Obamas blew enormous amounts of money on those obscene vacations. This, while running up $10 Trillion dollars of federal public debt, wrecking health care, totally trashing foreign policy, unconscionable numbers of unconstitutional EOs.

Please.

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Obamas blew enormous amounts of money on those obscene vacations.

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How much, tBot?

Anything can be a game as long as there's a loser.

Untold millions.

I thought it was $85 million.


Anything can be a game as long as there's a loser.

Sounded like it was over $100 million. We'll probably find out the exact amount during the next eight years.

And if it costs $183 million per year to secure Trump Tower you're ok with that?


Anything can be a game as long as there's a loser.

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It'll probably take a while for Trump to equal the expenditures all the vacations that the Obama's and Moo-chelle's mother took at taxpayer expense.

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And Bush the 2nd took even more vacations.

Are you sufficiently frightened yet? Trump wants you to be

Not like Obama.

Are you ever going to take Donnie's tiny dick out of your mouth?



Never trust a black man named "Chip."

Are you going to stop eating Obama's Cleveland steamers?

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a price tag that, based on past assessments of presidential travel and security costs, could balloon into the hundreds of millions of dollars over the course of a four-year term.

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I wonder if this news rag understands the magnitude of the $10 trillion in debt added during the previous administration.

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I wonder if this news rag understands the magnitude of the $10 trillion in debt added during the previous administration.

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And exactly what does that have to do with the price of tea in China?

Debt is something to worry about for sure (especially for the next generation), but what is wrong in pointing out one way in one aspect in which we are building it?

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Friday, President Donald Trump and his entourage will jet for the third straight weekend to a working getaway at his oceanfront Mar-a-Lago Club in Palm Beach, Florida.

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AKA Vacation.

What can he do in Florida that he can't do in DC?
Besides play a round of golf with the Japanese PM.
Like that was really needed.

Trump lies:
Mexico is going to pay for the wall.
I can stop federal funds.

Sounds like he's making sure there are lots of Secret Service jobs!

It's their job to be stressed out.

If you don't stand for something, you'll fall for anything.

If Hildog was President, the lives of the Secret Service agents would be a miserable hell.





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I'm more concerned about the fact that President Trump is personally profiting from the tax payers every time he and his entourage go down to Mar-a-Lago. Is that going to happen every weekend for the next 4 years?



I don't want to belong to any club that will accept people like me as a member

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Trump is personally profiting from the tax payers every time he and his entourage go down to Mar-a-Lago.

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Having never been elected to office before.. maybe he's trying to make up for years of missed revenue that others in DC have been getting?

Separation of office and business, ha?

https://www.scientificamerican.com/article/ominous-story-of-syria-climate-refugees/

Hillary would have so stressed out the Secret Service that they would have shot her before the assassin.




Goodbye