Governing is not about car dealership openings, yet that’s the perk POTUS45* wants as a legacy … some odd myth about “being strong” and influencing unaccountable things. Because TV ratings.
and then there was Number Two, so much Number Two
Trump dined at his new Washington D.C. hotel Saturday night, in the last weekend before hitting his 100th day in office.
That means that in his short Oval Office tenure, he has kept a three-month streak of escaping to his own businesses — often at the expense of taxpayers.
A tally by the Washington Post found that Trump has trekked to his properties twelve weekends in a row, and 33 times altogether in his first 94 days as President. Since February, he has also never made it through one full week without ending up at part of his business empire…
As he nears his 100th day, Trump’s travels have run up a taxpayer tab of at least $20 million, according to a CNN analysis. That is more than one-fifth of the $97 million in travel expenses Obama ran up in his entire eight years as President.