what is the cost of trumps trips to florida

The claim: Trump's golf game trips have cost the American taxpayer $141,000,000

One of President Donald Trump'south favorite recreational activities is golf.

Robert Reich, author and former Labor secretary, claims in an October. xix post to his Facebook folio that the hobby is subsidized by U.South. taxpayers.

"One time once more, Trump brags about altruistic his $400,000 presidential salary. Somehow he forgot to mention that his golf trips have toll taxpayers $141,000,000," says a screenshot of a tweet Reich posted that aforementioned day.

Reich, who served during the Clinton assistants, was named i of the 10 best Chiffonier members in the 20th century by Fourth dimension magazine. The documentary maker now runs a weblog, RobertReich.org.

Reich has not responded to a request for comment from Us TODAY. The White House was also asked to comment.

It is likely the estimated costs of the president'south golf game trips was derived from independent websites such as Trump Golf game Count, which tracks government spending.

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Trump'south golf trips

Presidents routinely travel for business and entrada events; in the latter case, the campaign is required to reimburse the authorities, USA TODAY reported. But the reasons for official travel are at the discretion of the White House, rendering the price of Trump's golf game trips a scrap of a mystery.

In 2017-eighteen, Trump spent 69 days of his presidency in Mar-a-Lago, a Palm Beach, Florida, resort owned by the Trump Arrangement; 33 at his Bedminster, New Jersey, golf club; and 31 at Trump National in Sterling, Virginia, co-ordinate to Usa TODAY in June 2018.

By this May 25, the president had visited a Trump golf game course 266 times, CNN reported. And Sept. 5 marked Trump'south 295th visit to i of his golf properties, co-ordinate to CNN's Jim Sciutto.

Sophie Germain has kept track of the president's golfing and its costs at the Trump Golf Count site since his 2017 inauguration. USA TODAY has reached out to her for annotate.

An itemized breakdown of travel costs to various golf resorts totaled $141,450,266, co-ordinate to Germain. Her tally of expenses includes the cost of flights to Mar-a-Lago and Bedminster; police enforcement personnel costs for trips to Bedminster and Palm Beach; Coast Guard protections for Trump's Mar-a-Lago getaways; authorities-funded resort stays and luxury vehicle rentals in Turnberry, Scotland, another Trump-owned belongings, in 2018; and lodgings at Trump'due south golf society in Doonbeg, Republic of ireland, in 2019. The last golf trip recorded on the website happened on Oct. 16.

Let's expect at the details.

Estimated expenses

Overall expenses for Trump's travels to New Bailiwick of jersey and Florida were estimated at $half-dozen.iv million a twelvemonth, and security costs charged by local governments are reimbursed by the federal government, according to Trump Golf Count.

A portion of Germain's calculations are sourced from a 2019 Government Accountability Report that details expenses incurred past federal agenciesbetween Feb. iii and March 5, 2017.

Using the same information for a Feb 2019 report, the Washington Post estimated Trump'due south trips to Mar-a-Lago alone toll the U.Southward. taxpayer approximately $64 million during his first two years in office.

Roughly $10.6 million was spent on operating costs for government aircraft and boats and $3 million on temporary duty costs including transportation, meals, lodging and incidental expenses from Feb. iii-6; Feb. 10-12; Feb. 17-xx; and March 3-5, 2017, according to The Postal service. About $13.5 million was spent on services provided by the Department of Homeland Security the Defense Department made up the bulk of the expenses.

Some other $sixty,000, including $24,000 for lodging for Defense force Department personnel and $36,000 for operational space used by DHS, was noted in the report.

Air Force One costs would be amid the Defense Department'due south expenses. In fiscal year 2020, the mission reimbursable rate for Air Forcefulness 1 — including fuel, flying consumables, aircraft overhaul and engine overhaul — cost $176,393 per hour, according to the U.S. Air Strength.The rate was $165,000 per hour in 2019, according to the Pentagon, as reported by USA TODAY.

Post reporter Philip Bump reported Trump made 19 trips to Mar-a-Lago between January 2017 and February 2019.

"If we, therefore, assume a blanket average of $3.iv 1000000 per trip, regardless of duration, the total the government has spent on Trump'southward trips to the resort tops $64 one thousand thousand," Crash-land wrote. Flights solitary deemed for $twoscore million of Bump's estimate, the Post'due south Glenn Kessler reported.

Bump also observed that Trump played golf during 31 of his first 78 weekends in office at various locations around the world. A weekend stay at his resort in Turnberry in July 2018 price more than than $1.1 million, according to a report released by the House Oversight and Reform Committee. Trump tweeted he golfed at the resort between meetings with NATO members and Russian officials.

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A stopover in Doonbeg, Ireland, during a three-solar day visit to the United Kingdom in 2019, added another $iii.six million in expenses to his international golf outings, according to a report by HuffPost.

Every bit for Trump's trips to Bedminster: The president owns a house in the New Bailiwick of jersey suburb, so members of the press are not immune access to the society, co-ordinate to Trump Golf Count .

"At this point, whenever Trump spends the greater part of a 24-hour interval at Bedminster, we count it as a 'visit,'" and any allusion to golf game or pictures of the president in golf attire counts as a "confirmed golf outing," she explained.

Trump has played golf during 24 of 96 trips to Bedminster since the beginning of his presidency, according to a tabular array maintained by TrumpGolfCount.com.

But Kessler questioned the practice of attributing travel costs for the president and his support staff exclusively to golf game. Such estimates "flimsy" and "misleading," he said.

"Much of the logistical back up for a president must follow him wherever he goes, and then if the president has one four-hr circular of golf in a 24-hour day, is it fair to attribute all of those daily security and logistical costs to that round of golf? We would say no," Kessler wrote in a July 2018 fact-check piece.

Our rating: Missing context

We charge per unit this claim MISSING CONTEXT, based on our research. References to Trump's golf trips take been well-documented throughout his presidency. The president, himself has admitted to visiting golf game resorts owned past the Trump Organization while traveling abroad. Just the reason for his official travel is at the discretion of the White House. Much of the costs for golf outings and resort stays are estimates. Absent that confirmation, we cannot say with certainty this number is true.

Our fact-check sources:

• The states TODAY, May 29, 2019: "Donald Trump slammed Obama for using Air Forcefulness Ane for election campaigning. Now he does the same"
• HuffPost, June 7, 2019: "Trump'southward $3.vi Million Ireland Detour Brings Taxpayer-Funded Golf Tab To $105.viii one thousand thousand"
• Business firm Committee on Oversight and Reform, March 23: "New Report Shows Taxpayers Human foot the Bill for President Trump'due south $1 1000000 Weekend Golf Trip to His Resort in Scotland"
• General Services Administration, accessed Oct. 28: State Department receipts
• Trump Golf Count, accessed Oct. 27: "Frequently Asked Questions"
• Trump Golf Count, accessed Oct. 27: "President Trump's Golf Outings"
• The states Government Accountability Role, accessed Oct. 27: "PRESIDENTIAL TRAVEL Secret Service and DOD Demand to Ensure That Expenditure Reports Are Prepared and Submitted to Congress"
• The Washington Mail service, July xx, 2018: "Trump says golf is his 'primary form of do.' We talked to an expert well-nigh how constructive that is."
• The Washington Post, June 5, 2019: "Trump to stay at Doonbeg, his money-losing golf grade threatened past climate alter"
• Donald J. Trump July fourteen, 2018 tweet
• USA TODAY, Sept. 6, 2019: "House Democrats investigating Vice President Mike Pence's stay at Trump resort in Ireland"
• Time Mag, accessed October. 28: "Pinnacle 10 Best Cabinet Members"
• U.s.a. TODAY, June 12, 2017: "President Trump crashes nuptials at his North.J. golf game society"
• The states TODAY, June 20, 2018: "Trump's Mar-a-Lago visits cost Coast Baby-sit nearly $20M"
• United states of america TODAY, April 18, 2020: "Trump's Mar-a-Lago furloughs all 153 'nonessential' employees during coronavirus pandemic"
• Jim Sciutto Sept. 5 tweet
• CNN, May 25: "Fact check: Trump has spent far more time at golf clubs than Obama had at same indicate"
• The Washington Mail service, July 27, 2018: "Have U.Southward. taxpayers spent $72 million on Trump's golf outings?"

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