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A REMINDER...ONE of Trump's 3-day golf weekends costs EIGHT times his annual salary that he "donates" [View all]
The presidential salary is $400,000. Multiply that x 8 and you get a little bit less than $3,383,250 (the cost of one of his 3-day golf weekends).A White House official confirmed to ABC News that $350 million has been raised for the ballroom project, saying the president "has received such positive and overwhelming support for the ballroom that he continues to receive donations."
The official did not address a question on what Trump plans to do with the additional $50 million raised.
Asked by ABC News White House Correspondent Karen Travers on Thursday how much of his own money he was planning to donate to the ballroom, Trump replied, "Oh, millions of dollars. Yeah. Well, I also give, you know, I give a lot of money to the White House. The White House is, as you know, I give my salary, and I usually like to steer it to the White House because this house was a little bit abandoned."
https://www.pennlive.com/news/2025/03/trumps-golf-game-taxpayers-cost-for-the-president-to-play-at-mar-a-lago.html
"...taxpayers have to shell out an estimated $3,383,250 for each golf trip to Florida. Trump stays at his resort during the trips, and plays at his Trump Internatnational Golf Course in West Palm Beach. And, due to the frequency in which the president has played, the site estimated that meant that taxpayers paid out at least $10.7 million for the president to hit the links across the first month of his second term..."
The official did not address a question on what Trump plans to do with the additional $50 million raised.
Asked by ABC News White House Correspondent Karen Travers on Thursday how much of his own money he was planning to donate to the ballroom, Trump replied, "Oh, millions of dollars. Yeah. Well, I also give, you know, I give a lot of money to the White House. The White House is, as you know, I give my salary, and I usually like to steer it to the White House because this house was a little bit abandoned."
https://www.pennlive.com/news/2025/03/trumps-golf-game-taxpayers-cost-for-the-president-to-play-at-mar-a-lago.html
"...taxpayers have to shell out an estimated $3,383,250 for each golf trip to Florida. Trump stays at his resort during the trips, and plays at his Trump Internatnational Golf Course in West Palm Beach. And, due to the frequency in which the president has played, the site estimated that meant that taxpayers paid out at least $10.7 million for the president to hit the links across the first month of his second term..."
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