Donald Trump has run up one heck of a golf tab for taxpayers in his second term, but folks hoping to keep track of that might have just lost a site which followed his habit daily.
The website DidTrumpGolfToday.com has posted a statement to the top of its page, accusing the president of attempting to cover up his health issues while announcing that it would no longer use his reported schedule alone to log his golf days.
“Until further notice, golf days will not be updated unless a confirmed sighting of Trump on the golf course occurs,” the statement read. “The Trump administration is actively narrative drafting information to hide Trump’s declining health including his published schedule to discourage media questions.”
There is no evidence that Trump did that, but it comes after a weekend filled with conspiracy theories regarding the president’s health. He seemed to buck those rumors by reportedly going golfing on Saturday, but the photos that were provided from that outing served to only feed more conspiracy.
The site originally accepted Trump’s golf trip, and added it to his calendar while updating the estimated total taxpayer cost — a figure based on a 2019 Government report — to $78,400,000
It has now rejected that Saturday trip — again, there’s no evidence that Trump didn’t golf — while winding his estimated cost back to $77,000,000.
Trump reportedly spent $151.5 million golfing across his first term.
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 averaged a cost of $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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