Why does anyone give a damn what that man does now that he's a private citizen, and a sufficiently well-off one at that? What are comfortable people to do with their money? Husband it rather than enjoy spending it?
Who is paying for the Secret Service protection on these luxury vacations?
no doubt you and me and all the other tax payers in the Country....
We're paying for that regardless of where he vacations or goes. At least he isn't forcing us to line his pockets by going to his own resorts and thereby forcing the SS to at them purchase rooms and other goods and services.
can you prove he makes them pay?....just asking....
Your ignorance is not my burden of proof.
Certainly at the heart of this matter is the lack of transparency about the details of what's being paid to Trump's businesses.
Before you even remark upon the amount of the money paid to Trump's facilities, do not forget that for no other POTUS was the sum paid to their businesses greater than zero dollars, which is as it should be.
Then there's the fact that every time Trump goes to one of his own resorts/hotels or clubs, it's free publicity for the facility involved. Even if the Secret Service were somehow not to have to pay, there's still the whole entourage of people besides them who also travel with Trump and who must also be at his side. Now, I don't know the exact number of people in Trump's entourage, but I know it's not one or two or even half a dozen. Everywhere the man goes, there are going to easily be 30 people, likely more, who must be at his side, and some of those people have their own retinue of aides and security personnel.
- Personal attendants -- personnel like the president’s doctor and assistants
- Secret service -- specially trained security members who are always on hand to protect the president
- White house staff -- people who help with the business of the president, and who will get important work done during the trip
- Journalists – professional journalists who regularly report on the president’s activities wherever he or she is going (I don't expect taxpayers foot the bill for these folks, but they may very well stay at the Trump property.)
- Military personnel -- the guy who carries "The Football" is always present along with other military staff
- Whoever he's meeting with -- Those individuals, particularly if they are foreign officials, have their own entourage.
And then there's
the money spent at his businesses while he was running for POTUS.
Finally, remember Trump's speech in which he lamented that among the potential downsides of becoming POTUS is that he wouldn't get to play golf because he'd never leave the WH for, in his words, "who would want to?" I just watched on TV the clip of him saying that. I found a printed variation of that remark -- "
I would rarely leave the White House because there’s so much work to be done." Once again, Trump's word cannot be relied upon.
