Trump's 10 weeks in office cost same for travel as 2 years

add to that:
www.inusanews.com/article/6150021701/trump-social-security-federal-hiring-freeze-starting-veterans-recipients

and

www.dailykos.com/story/2017/4/9/1651743/-Mar-a-Lago-helipad-built-for-Marine-One-now-sports-a-Trump-branded-private-helicopter-instead

Until the spineless Republicans in Congress/Senate grow some balls and hold Trump accountable, this will be the new reality.

And if you have Republican representatives,( or democrats who are enabling Trump) and you are offended by Trumps actions, and you fail to notify these representatives each and every time, by phone or email, then you are just as responsible.

I spend less than 1/2 hour a day, on political action. My postcards are pre-addressed, to add the daily (or as necessary comments), my emails are preset and ready to fill in, the appropriate phone numbers are in my phone. And while all my reps are Democrats, and very much against Trump, those in surrounding areas are Republicans, and I let them know that my money and time will go to their defeat during the next election cycle.

We can all bemoan Trumps actions, or we can actively work to ensure that he, and his enablers know this is their last term in office.

Exactly what I have feared, and it is horrifying to contemplate what the federal government will look like 3.5 years from now.

This may be what it takes to turn some of his supporters, though.

My Republican friends are with you on this River. This is the one area of the Trump administration that they are outraged by and find completely indefensible. I keep hoping they let our Republican Congressman know how they feel.SaveSave

I'm assuming this doesn't include the cost of having Melania and Baron in NY (and their travel to Florida every weekend as well)?

Not surprising

I'm just going to stalk trollie and agree with everything she's saying.
Mmm hmmm that's right girl!

yeah... for the publicity factor.  Passing over an oversized check in front of a crowd of people, just like a lottery winner, or something.  


And who the heck cares about him donating his salary since it's only a drop in the bucket when compared to the cuts he's proposing to make to the Parks Department.  

I am a registered Republican, but I identify more with Republicans from several years ago, not the current party (sorry, that probably makes no sense!).  I am very fiscally conservative (and more socially liberal) and I hate that he is wasting so much of taxpayer's money. 

I also am fiscally conservative and socially liberal. I'd love it if our representatives would cut back expenses, stick to a fair budget, pay off our debts and stay out of our bedrooms. The problem that I always have with Republicans is that they claim to be fiscally conservative  but they expand the war machine, give HUGE tax benefits to big corporations who mostly keep their money and employees off shore and they run up the national debit all the while lining their own pockets and cutting benefits for those who really need help. The Democrats have to come in and clean up the Republican mess every time. Where on earth did they get the reputation as being fiscally conservative?

I couldn't care less if a president golfs every weekend, weather permitting (ah, there's the rub)...or bowls or sticks pins in dead butterflies or scrapbooks. (Heh.) I have no expectation for 24/7 devotion; I like a president who exercises, socializes, walks the dog, vacations in Hawaii with his kids, whatever.

But to schlep your security, your advisers, and your NYC-living family to your private for-profit club every weekend, and then have the temerity to actually name it "The Winter White House"...and then CHANGE the name to "The Southern White House" when - oops! - winter is over?

Then yeah, I'm going to profoundly disapprove of your weekly golf game. Stay home, Mr, President. Take as much leisure time as you need to be healthy and whole, but let's see some of that personal responsibility and belt-tightening. Or maybe just a little prudence and self-awareness.

(Also, I forget who said upthread that their friends were arguing that President Obama's greens fees were paid with public money, but that would surprise me.)

Oh, I agree. It's ridiculously careless and hypocritical. Disrespectful, even.

Yes, I think presidents should recreate (and I did not at all understand the Obama-golfs-so-he's-a-slacker anger), but do it "at home" or on much-less-frequent vacations.

And the Democrats lost the right to ever bitch about any President golfing, after Obama spoke of an American citizen being beheaded and then 17 minutes later was photographed laughing and joking on the golf course, but here we are. 

That's what everyone's heard from the Left for the last 8 years when the subject came up about the expense of all of Obama's for fun trips and the expense of campaigning trips were brought up.


I do think that needs to stop. Since he won't, someone needs to put a stop to it. That can't be legal. At the very least it's unethical.