Just wanted to hop and remind folks that Trump, the oldest nominated candidate in American history, spent about 20% of his presidency on a golf course to the tune of $142,000,000 pulled straight from our taxes.
Wonder how many times he golfed after Biden became President. I pretty much guarantee it’s less because he’d be golfing on his own dime at that point.
I would pledge to spend exactly $0 of tax money on golf if I were president. Imagine if that money instead went to filling pot holes, adding lanes to congested freeways, adding solar panels to the roofs of federal buildings etc.
Adding lanes has been shown not to reduce congestion on highways, but I’m with you otherwise.
There are places where it would help and places it wouldn’t. Making a blanket statement saying it doesn’t help is obtuse. Imagine if all freeways were reduced to 1 lane. Congestion would be worse, right? Well, someone had to add lanes to get us to our current state, right?
This article should be the response to Trump’s demands to be reimbursed for his shitty campaign.
“Fuck you, Donny. Reimburse the taxpayers for all the grift and bullshit you pulled to waste $142M of taxpayer money so you could golf.”
Harris would do well to keep that zinger in her back pocket for a debate if he’s not too chickenshit to have one.
Someone want to do the calculation for how much this cost the average American taxpayer?
There are so many of us it’s spread pretty decently so probably just dollars if that much. But imagine what 142mill could have done for, say, a few key pieces of rural infrastructure. Or schools. Or whatever you want. That’s not a small amount of money when you’re talking smaller populations with poor access to resources.
don’t forget the secret service leasing an entire floor of trump tower–money going directly into trump’s greasy pocket
There were ~164 million employed people. So at a cost of 142million was about $0.89 a person.
For comparison the national endowment for the arts had a 162.25 million dollar budget in 2020.
The DOD budget was 721.5 Billion.
Still, the average taxpayer spent $.23 per year for a supposed millionaire’s golf games.
Note that 2020 it went down drastically - likely because he was out campaigning and still not doing his job. Also pandemic likely forced his hand a bit. But this is admittedly speculative lol
Remember that when he again promises he will be “too busy working for you to play golf.”
