To much Trump golfing
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To the editor:
After declaring a “national emergency” that allowed him to raise tariffs across the board by at least 10% on his so-called “Liberation Day,” April 2, Trump responded by flying off to Florida to attend the Saudi backed Doral golf tournament at his Doral golf club.
In the wake of a plunging US Stock Market wiping out billions of dollars of investment including individual retirement accounts, an increase in prices as companies pass along increased costs to consumers, and fears of a recession, he heads off to another weekend in Florida.
Of the 70 days in office of his second term, he has spent 20 of them in Florida.
Campaigning in 2016, candidate Trump criticized the time President Obama spent playing golf, with these words, as he tried to portray himself as a workaholic, “I’m going to be working for you. I’m not going to have time to go play golf.”
In this term he has spent more than a quarter of his time in office playing golf at a cost to the American taxpayers of $25,127,531. The various expenses include moving his motorcade equipment and security personnel as well as the immense cost of flying Air Force 1. Note: as of Fiscal year 2021, it cost $177,833 dollars an hour for Air Force 1, meaning that a round trip to Mar-a-Lago could cost taxpayers $1 million.
During his first term, his insistence on playing golf at his own resorts cost taxpayers a total of $151.5 million as he spent 293 days on one of his golf courses over those four years.
The timing of this trip to Florida, putting aside the economic chaos caused by the tariffs, was also bad. He passed on attending a service to honor four young American soldiers killed in a training exercise in Lithuania..soldier’s bodies passed.
Mary Kathryn Gepner
Benton