![]() About $3 million was spent on a two-day trip to Scotland in 2018. This was on top of $17 million in costs he accrued in 2019 for 15 trips to his New Jersey golf course, and another $1 million to fly to a Los Angeles resort of his. While the COVID-19 pandemic has slowed Trump’s travel in 2020, it hasn’t stopped him from flying to Florida or his New Jersey golf course.Ī February 2020 HuffPost analysis estimated that Trump’s vacations to Mar-a-Lago - which at the time totaled 29 since he’d been in office - added up to just less than $134 million in Air Force One and Secret Service costs. The Intelligencer also reports that during Trump’s first four visits to Mar-a-Lago in 2017, the Secret Service alone spent $1.3 million per visit. As of January 2020 - three years into his term - he’d already spent 114 days at his resort in Mar-a-Lago, Florida, and 75 days at Trump National Golf Club Bedminster in New Jersey, according to the New York Intelligencer. President Donald Trump claimed during the 2016 campaign that he wouldn’t take very many days off when he was in office, but a review of this record shows that hasn’t been the case. Scott Halleran / Getty Images Donald Trump’s Vacation CostsĮstimated vacation costs (so far): $154.8 million ![]() Keep reading to learn about the crazy financial perks of being president. Some sources will likely have different figures. One note: The estimates below are based on analyses from different sources using a range of criteria, and should not be taken as precise figures. Keep reading to learn how much money various presidents have racked up in vacation costs - and how much taxpayers have had to fork over to foot the bill. While we want our presidents to get important downtime, the costs of these vacations add up for the American taxpayer. Say It Isn’t So: Crazy Financial Perks of Being President As former President Ronald Reagan’s wife Nancy Reagan once acerbically noted, “Presidents don’t get vacations they just get a change of scenery.” ![]() But even those vacations aren’t always that relaxing. presidents have very full schedules, and occasionally they need vacation time to refresh and reboot. There may be no job more grueling than Leader of the Free World. ![]()
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