Donald Trump had folks wondering where he had been all week heading into the weekend.
Those folks are wondering no more, though.
They found him on the golf course. And that has been a common theme for the president thus far in his second term. According to the website DidTrumpGolfToday.com the outing at his course in Virginia marked the 56th day out of his first 224 in office that Trump has hit the links. That is a solid 25% of this term spent swinging the clubs.
And the estimated taxpayer tab for that comes in at a whopping $78,400,000.
To put that in perspective, midway through his first term, the president has already surpassed the midway point for his golf costs — $151.5 million — accumulated across all four years of his first term.
The current total also does not include the $600,000 recently revealed 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.
You can read more about the deal at The Independent, here.
And, yes, while Trump mostly golfs at his properties, the American taxpayer reportedly still foots the bill for the costs for him to play there.
For those concerned about how much it costs 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.
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