Donald Trump was back on the golf course for the weekend, and the president claimed another title, winning the Bedminster Senior Club Championship.
That win came with controversy because … well, some folks on social media don’t believe the president plays fair on the links. It also came with what has been estimated to be a hefty price tag for the American taxpayer.
And it pushed Trump toward a new estimated total for his golf outings since Jan. 20 that is downright eye-popping.
The website DidTrumpGolfToday.com tracks the president’s golf outings, and uses the Government’s own 2019 report findings to calculate how much money the president has spent playing golf. And, after the weekend, the site has Trump golfing 49 out of the first 198 days of his second term.
That’s 24.7% of his time as president golfing.
But the big number comes in dollars and the outing now pushes the president’s estimated expenditure on golf for his second term to a whopping $68,600,000.
And that’s not counting the $600,000 revealed last week that the Secret Service is spending on golf carts and portable toilets for Bedminster. The Independent reported that the agency “signed a pair of definitive contracts with Associate Golf Car Service of Poughkeepsie, New York and Restroom Resources LLC of Wrightstown, New Jersey,” per federal records.
The portable toilets may be a wise investment considering the health department recently deemed eating at the course an “unacceptable risk.”
The Secret Service will reportedly shell out $80,385 for those with the contract running through May 31, 2026. The Independent said there is a “three-year renewal option, for a potential of $333,801.” The site reported that the golf cart rental runs through June 2, 2026, and is “worth a potential of $550,930.”
“The U.S. Secret Service has contracts in place for portable restrooms and golf cart rentals to support the protective operations in Bedminster, New Jersey,” the Secret Service told The Independent. “The golf carts are used by personnel in club facilities; however, additional restrooms are needed to support the number of personnel onsite. These rentals also allow for restroom access in additional locations on club property and when club facilities are closed such as after business hours.”
You can read more about the deal at The Independent, here.
And, yes, while Trump mostly golfs at his properties, the American taxpayer still foots the bill for the costs for him to play there.
Trump spent an estimated $151.5 million of taxpayer money golfing across his first term so he is well on his way to blowing that total out of the water during this second term.
Those are big numbers. Lot of millions spent hitting a little white ball. Which brings the obvious question of just how much it costs for the president to play a round of golf.
Well, for those concerned about how much it costs Americans for the president to play, the figures are from a 2019 Government Accountability Office report that examined Trump’s first four trips to Mar-a-Lago during his first administration. You can see the report, here. It calculated that each of those trips cost $3,383,250, and that was based on 2017 dollars meaning that the actual cost today is likely higher than the estimate.
The costs involved with him golfing in Florida include flying in on Air Force One. Also, per the site, the military flies the vehicles for his motorcade in on C-17s each time he makes the trip. Also, because Mar-a-Lago, where Trump stays while he plays at his courses, is on the water, police boats with machine guns and a Coast Guard vessel have to be called in to patrol. The site said additional costs included law enforcement and bomb sniffing dogs.
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