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Jaw-dropping amount Donald Trump’s 13 rounds of golf have reportedly cost US taxpayers this year

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His golfing habits while in office often made headlines. Back in 2019, The Washington Post estimated that his Florida golf trips alone would cost taxpayers around $64 million. But by October 2020, former Labor Secretary Robert Reich calculated that the real cost had skyrocketed to $141 million.

At the time, Reich wrote: “Once again, Trump brags about donating his $400,000 presidential salary. Somehow he forgot to mention that his golf trips have cost taxpayers $141,000,000.”

One particularly expensive weekend in Scotland in 2018 reportedly cost taxpayers over $1 million, according to The Committee on Oversight and Accountability Democrats.

So, with Trump playing 13 rounds of golf this year, what does that mean for U.S. taxpayers?

Trump’s expeditions to Florida have reportedly cost taxpayers more than $18 million (TIMOTHY A. CLARY/AFP via Getty Images)

HuffPost analyzed data from a 2019 Government Accountability Office report and claimed that the president’s golf trips may have cost American taxpayers over $18 million.

Trump and his team reportedly travel to Florida golf courses aboard Air Force One, with additional expenses going toward security measures, including law enforcement patrols and bomb-sniffing dogs.

Meanwhile, on Saturday (March 8), police confirmed they were investigating an act of vandalism at Trump’s Turnberry golf resort in Scotland.

According to the BBC, a pro-Palestinian group had splattered red paint on part of a building and spray-painted the words “Gaza is not for sale” on one of the greens.

A Trump Turnberry spokesperson condemned the act as “childish” and “criminal”, adding that the course is a “national treasure” and will remain “the number one beacon of luxury and excellence in the world of golf.”

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