Trump’s Irish Golfing Detour Cost $3.6 Million In Taxpayer Dollars

U.S. President Donald Trump plays a round of golf at Trump Turnberry Luxury Collection Resortduring the U.S. President's first official visit to the United Kingdom on July 15, 2018 in Turnberry, Scotland. The President of the United States and First Lady, Melania Trump on their first official visit to the UK after yesterday's meetings with the Prime Minister and the Queen is in Scotland for private weekend stay at his Turnberry.
TURNBERRY, SCOTLAND - JULY 15: U.S. President Donald Trump plays a round of golf at Trump Turnberry Luxury Collection Resort during the U.S. President's first official visit to the United Kingdom on July 15, 2018 in... TURNBERRY, SCOTLAND - JULY 15: U.S. President Donald Trump plays a round of golf at Trump Turnberry Luxury Collection Resort during the U.S. President's first official visit to the United Kingdom on July 15, 2018 in Turnberry, Scotland. The President of the United States and First Lady, Melania Trump on their first official visit to the UK after yesterday's meetings with the Prime Minister and the Queen is in Scotland for private weekend stay at his Turnberry. (Photo by Leon Neal/Getty Images) MORE LESS
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President Donald Trump has been racking up a massive bill for his many golf excursions, spending another $3.6 million taxpayer dollars on his play at his club in Doonbeg on Friday.

According to HuffPost, that brings his total golfing tab to nearly $106 million since he’s taken office, largely spent at his own clubs.

Though he went out of his way to fit in some golf at the end of his European trip, Trump relegated the Irish Prime Minister to a brief meeting near the food court in Shannon Airport because he didn’t want to travel to Dublin.

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  1. “that brings his total golfing tab to nearly $106 million since he’s taken office, largely spent at his own clubs.

    Why is that not a crime?

  2. It also cost the Irish Republic a pretty penny…

  3. Hey, the Doonberg resort has never made him money.

    So if he can bring in a couple planeloads of staffers, Secret Service, family members masquerading as government officials, etc. to up the occupancy rate of the place for a couple nights, who can blame him?

  4. This is of course a terrible outrage but it’s dwarfed IMHO by how the bastard spent a couple of weeks or so playing chicken with the continental economy and then caved, triumphantly announcing a bogus agreement that means nothing, simply because Mitch told him to fucking cool it with the tariffs. Seems at least as important as his constant pitchman visits to his perennially money-losing properties. Just saying.

  5. Isn’t it unfortunate to think that whomever takes over from him will probably not open lots of investigations into his financial shenanigans during his time in office, due to some misguided thoughts that it’s divisive.

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