{"id":23748,"date":"2025-03-09T20:12:29","date_gmt":"2025-03-09T20:12:29","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/usdailys.com\/?p=23748"},"modified":"2025-03-09T20:12:29","modified_gmt":"2025-03-09T20:12:29","slug":"reason-why-donald-trumps-13-rounds-of-golf-this-year-cost-us-taxpayers-jaw-dropping-amount-of-money","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/usdailys.com\/?p=23748","title":{"rendered":"Reason why Donald Trump’s 13 rounds of golf this year cost US taxpayers jaw-dropping amount of money"},"content":{"rendered":"

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Donald Trump’s penchant for golf is racking up a pricey bill for taxpayers, according to reports – and it turns out there’s an explanation behind the eye-watering sum.<\/strong><\/p>\n

President Trump<\/a>\u00a0has been in office for nearly 50 days, and to say it’s been eventful is an understatement.<\/p>\n

The Republican president accused President of Ukraine\u00a0Volodymyr Zelenskyy<\/a>\u00a0of\u00a0‘gambling with World War 3’<\/a>\u00a0in an explosive meeting, while his tenure has been dominated by executive order after executive order.<\/p>\n

Away from the pressures of the job, the 47th POTUS is known for having a round or two of golf.<\/p>\n

Trump is believed to have played golf on 13 of the 48 days his been back in the Oval Office.<\/p>\n

And according to an Independent\u00a0report<\/a>, this pastime is costing taxpayers an eye-watering sum of\u00a0money<\/a>.<\/p>\n

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Donald Trump loves a round of golf (Mike Stobe\/Getty Images)<\/cite><\/div>\n

According\u00a0to<\/a>\u00a0HuffPost, the US leader has played ten rounds at the private Trump International West Palm Beach and three times at Trump Doral since returning to Washington DC.<\/p>\n

Trump Doral is an 800-acre resort east of Miami International Airport, and as for Trump International West Palm Beach, that features a 27-hole golf course just five minutes from the Atlantic Ocean.<\/p>\n

The president is a golf lover, there’s no doubt about that – but that is coming at a cost to the taxpayer.<\/p>\n

The Washington Post reported in 2019 that his travel to the Sunshine State to play the sport would cost taxpayers $64 million.<\/p>\n

Come October 2020, Robert Reich, author and former Labor secretary, calculated that Trump had\u00a0actually cost taxpayers an eye-watering $141 million.<\/a><\/p>\n

HuffPost has looked at figures from a Government Accountability Office report published in 2019 to allege the president\u2019s golf trips have probably cost American taxpayers more than $18 million this year.<\/p>\n

The reason why Trump’s rounds of golf cost the taxpayer so much is because he is understood to fly to the golf courses in Florida using Air Force One.<\/p>\n

And on top of that, you’ve got additional costs incurred by patrolling law enforcement and explosive-sniffing dogs.<\/p>\n

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Trump’s golf obsession is costing taxpayers a lot of money (TIMOTHY A. CLARY\/AFP via Getty Images)<\/cite><\/div>\n

Before Trump took office for the first time in January 2017, he pointed out how often Barack Obama would take to the golf course during the Democrat’s time as president.<\/p>\n

“We pay for Obama’s travel so he can fundraise millions so Democrats can run on lies. Then we pay for his golf,” Trump wrote on Twitter.<\/p>\n

Trump, who has previously described golf as a \u2018passion\u2019 rather than a game, owns 12 Trump Golf properties in the United States, two in Scotland, and one in Ireland and the United Arab Emirates (UAE).<\/p>\n

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