Poll of the Day > Presidents golfing at taxpayers' expense. What a goddamn joke of taxpayer money.

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Do you remember when President Obama took Michelle on that date to NY and then Republicans raised hell, then tried to have an 'investigation' in the misuse of taxpayer dollars?

https://www.usnews.com/news/obama/articles/2009/06/09/the-political-cost-of-the-obamas-date-night

Republicans raked Obama over the coals for this ONE date, but Donald Trump has currently spent about 21% of his presidency on his own fucking golf courses costing the taxpayer approx $46 million dollars already. I repeat: on Trump banded courses that he directly gets paid for each secret service rented golf cart and each of his staff that has to get a Trump owned hotel room at market rate. Republicans are silent. They don't care.

http://trumpgolfcount.com/
http://trumpgolfcount.com/#services

Note that since being elected, Trump's gone to golf clubs thirty-eight times, with sixteen of those being confirmed golfing excursions.

http://trumpgolfcount.com/displayoutings

This does not even include this children's expenses travel the globe with Secret Service protection. (Saint Reagan declined SS protection for his grown children). http://www.npr.org/sections/parallels/2017/03/06/518367429/these-days-business-travel-by-trumps-sons-is-costly-and-complicated

"Trump reported $37.2 million in income in the past year from Mar-a-Lago, the private Florida resort where Trump hosted the president of China and ordered missile strikes against Syria. The club has doubled its membership fee in the past year."

He doubled the fee at Mar-a-lago when he was elected.
http://money.cnn.com/2017/06/16/news/trump-financial-disclosure-form/index.html

There are currently so many conflicts of interest that the Government Ethics Director resigned.
https://www.nytimes.com/2017/07/06/us/politics/walter-shaub-office-of-government-ethics-resign.html

Currently tracking 492 reports of corruption:
https://corrupt.af/

http://fortune.com/2017/04/11/donald-trump-barack-obama-travel-spending/

https://www.washingtonpost.com/news/politics/wp/2017/03/17/how-much-is-donald-trumps-travel-and-protection-costing-anyway/?utm_term=.0c2b48331840

"On days when first lady Melania Trump and the couple's son, Barron, are the only ones in the city, security going forward will cost between $127,000 and $145,000 per day, less than when the president is in residence, O'Neill said."

http://fortune.com/2017/02/22/trump-tower-security-costs-taxpayer/

https://www.theatlantic.com/business/archive/2017/07/donald-trump-conflicts-of-interests/508382/

Trump’s Interests vs. America’s, Republican Fundraisers Edition Official GOP groups have paid the president’s company nearly $300,000 since the election to host events at his properties.

Yet, let's not forget Obama's golfing excursions.

http://www.obamagolfcounter.com/

In his eight years, Obama spent three-hundred and six days golfing. However, this was over his eight years. Let's hope Trump doesn't rack up more outings in his first year than Obama did in eight, yeah?

And just for the record,

https://thegolfnewsnet.com/golfnewsnetteam/2017/04/28/which-us-president-played-the-most-golf-in-office-104772/

There has been a lot of talk over the last eight-plus years about U.S. Presidents and how often they play golf while living in the White House. Since Donald J. Trump became the 45th President of the United States, Trump's penchant for spending weekends at his golf courses has both Democrats and Republicans arguing which Commander-in-Chief has played more golf and if that's even a big deal or not.

As it turns out, Donald Trump has played more golf in his first 100 days in office than Barack Obama. However, Obama played an estimated 333 rounds of golf while President for eight years.

Obviously Trump hasn't been in office long enough to rack up a historically high number of rounds of golf as President, but where does Obama rank among his fellow U.S. Presidents in terms of which one has played the most golf?

The U.S. President who played the most golf is actually Woodrow Wilson, who played an estimated, 1,200 rounds of golf while in office from 1913-21. That beats second-place President Dwight D. Eisenhower, who had a tree named for him at Augusta National Golf Club where he was a member and went 29 times as Commander-in-Chief, who played more than 800 rounds of golf in office from 1953-61.

Obama comes in a healthy fourth place with his 333 rounds. Bill Clinton played an estimated 400 rounds of golf in the White House.

Obama's predecessor, George W. Bush, stopped played golf once the second Iraq war started, totaling a total of 24 rounds of golf.

Most of the U.S. Presidents dating back to William Howard Taft have played golf in some capacity, for some reason. Calvin Coolidge played because golf was becoming popular. Lyndon Johnson played golf because he realized it was a great way to court political conversation and favors.