Mod: Walter Shaub, who was the ethics czar under President Barack Obama, thinks Donald Bone Spur's $106 million golf tab is a bit much to ask the long suffering American tax payers to pick up. Meaning it just might be high time for a new law dealing with presidential golf expenses. Oh, and should you be so cruel to think it, Donald is not struggling with his weight. His pants are cut too fat. Blame the tailor.Former White House Ethics Chief Proposes ‘Golf On Your Own Damn Dime Act’ (Huffington Postlink): The former White House ethics chief is sarcastically proposing a “Golf on Your Own Damn Dime Act of 2019.”
Walter Shaub, who served under President Barack Obama before leaving his post a few months after Donald Trump took office in 2017, pitched the mock law in response to Trump’s record number of golf trips to his own resort properties — even during official trips abroad.![]() |
| A news video of Trump cheating at golf here. |
The taxpayer tab for president’s pricey golf outings is now up to nearly $106 million, according to a HuffPost analysis. But what’s unique for a golfing president is that Trump owns the resorts he’s visiting, so the publicly funded trips also serve to finance and advertise his private businesses.Shaub’s facetious new act would require any
POTUS to “pay for all costs” for a golf outing “incurred by the entourage from the minute he/she left the
White House until he/she is back inside the
White House.”
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| Presidential insect research. |
The tab for Trump’s visit earlier this week to his golf resort in Doonbeg in Ireland— at least $3.6 million — was particularly steep because he brought along a substantial entourage following his official state visit in London. The club used Trump’s stay to try to drum up business for the money-losing operation by tweeting about his visit — something the Trump Organization had pledged would never happen because of ethics concerns. The golf course removed the tweets following questions about them from HuffPost.
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| Donald also wears fat pants to play tennis. |
Trump used to regularly attack
Obama for his golf outings, saying they were expensive for taxpayers and that he was taking too much time off.
Trump took to
Twitter 27 different times to inflict such criticisms.
Since
Trump became president, he has now spent part of 181 days on a golf course — all but two of which have been on his own properties. That’s more than twice the days
Obama spent golfing. And except during vacations he took,
Obama played almost all of his golf at military bases a short drive from the
White House. Those trips cost taxpayers little beyond motorcade gas and some staff overtime.
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