If Trump wants to save money, stop the weekend trips to Mar-a-Lago

[Ralph]

Funny as hell....now the spend happy democrats are Frugal in relation to saving taxpayer monies? Just like they are now McCarthyites, and Protectors of Federalism, etc., every time I see propaganda such as this I roll with laughter. Are they serious? Its like the left "demanding" a congressional investigation in the Russian Trump connection with no demonstrable evidence to date after 1 1/2 years of covert investigation. But, in 2008 when they caught a Foreign nation actually hacking into election day equipment.....and a democrat won, there was no patriotic left wing demand for any congressional investigation...why? The LEFT WON.....again, funny as hell. Now we the people will never know if it was CHINA that placed a Marxist into the white house.

[Timshel]

You don't conclude that the tax payers are being 'compensated' by Mr. Trump's FREE SERVICE as POTUS and the fact that every time someone rents a room in an offshore Hotel with the Trump name on it...that fee goes directly back into the coffers of the US treasury? Any more "spitwads" to throw? You might be correct about the costs in relation to Trump Towers....its not cheap to covertly intercept communications....while the tax payers are footing the cost of the FBI, the NSA, the CIA....and the IRS to maintain surveillance 24/7 on the Trump Team.

Trump is getting paid. They claim he will give it back to the treasury or donate it (probably to the Trump Foundation) at the end of the year. His pay is only 400K/year, though. According to the OP they are spending that every day to guard his estranged wife.

[Jarod]

What I think is significant about it is how much his supporters bitched about Obama taking vacations on taxpayer expense.

[Nomad]

Trump is getting paid. They claim he will give it back to the treasury or donate it (probably to the Trump Foundation) at the end of the year. His pay is only 400K/year, though. According to the OP they are spending that every day to guard his estranged wife.

The salary he forgoes is a small fraction of what he's costing the taxpayer.

This needs to be reported on with the same zeal they reported about Hillary's emails with.

[Ralph]

What I think is significant about it is how much his supporters bitched about Obama taking vacations on taxpayer expense.

Indeed.....the definition of a CONSERVATIVE, but the opposite of a democrat pretending to be frugal with the taxpayer's dime when its not a democrat act wasting money. If you want to bitch about tax payer waste.....something that protecting the POTUS is not....bitch about all the democrat social program waste and fraud allowed over the decades that amounts to 22 Trillion in taxpayer DEBT since a supposed war on poverty was declared in 1964...with the poverty index remaining constant or higher.

The democrats have wasted more money on poverty over the past 60 years with no results than the cost of all the wars combined in the history of the United States....the 22 trillion wasted is 3x the amount of all US wars combined that amount to a little of 7 Trillion. Talk about WASTE....and you are bitching about 1 billion a year in defense if....your numbers can actually be documented the same way the Heritage Foundation report can be documented at the source...THE US GOVERNMENTS OWN RECORDS? Really?

http://www.heritage.org/poverty-and-...after-50-years


All the information can be confirmed at the end of the report, simply prompt references. Anyone can present and document any information they can find that will refute those government sources. But that will not happen as the truth is never subject to refutation.


Fraud is rampant under these democrat programs. If you are going to pick a straw man (democrats are more frugal than conservatives with tax payer monies).....pick one that works. The false premise is the fact that not all taxpayer waste is contained to the protection of the POTUS.....the majority of the waste can be demonstrated to be DEMOCRAT acts of stupidity...law like Obama Care....etc., Does anyone really think the taxpayers should be hit with a bill in the millions to find out the mating habits of the North American earth worm...etc.,?