Federal workers cast Trump's many Mar-a-Lago trips as working from home

[BumRushDaShow]

Source: NBC News

March 15, 2025, 7:15 PM EDT


One of President Donald Trump’s first actions upon entering the White House was to order federal employees to return to the office. The government workforce, he has repeatedly contended, could not be productive from home.

“I happen to be a believer that you have to go to work. I don’t think you can work from home,” Trump said on Feb. 11. “Nobody’s going to work from home, they’re going to be going out, they’re going to play tennis, they’re going to play golf. They’re going to do a lot of things. They’re not working.”

Three days later, Trump traveled to his sprawling Mar-a-Lago mansion in Palm Beach, where he remained for parts of six consecutive days, according to an NBC News tracker. On one of the days, Trump signed two executive orders and a memorandum. He also held an impromptu press conference. In other words, he worked from home. That weekend, he did what he accused federal workers of doing: He went golfing. Between Feb. 14 and Feb. 19, he golfed on four different days.

While he is far from the first president to do so, each golfing trip is a cost to taxpayers. Before that, Trump hosted Republican senators at Mar-a-Lago in early February, where he delivered remarks including an update on his administration’s cost-cutting efforts. Some federal workers said Trump’s frequent trips to his luxury estate in Florida — racking up millions of dollars in security and transportation costs — while ordering millions of government employees back to the office, reeked of hypocrisy.

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[Walleye]

1. Those golf trips put our money in his pocket. We hear constantly from Maga that he doesn't take a salary.

I haven’t seen any proof of that. Where do his checks go? I’ll bet he keeps them, and his pension from his first term? How much is that

[C_U_L8R]

2. Unlimited paid vacations

It's criminal how much he steals from us.

[sop]

3. Narcissists Like Trump have a limited capacity for self-awareness.

[underpants]

4. GSA rates for Zip 33480 - lodging $244 MI&E $86/day

You get 75% of MIl&E on travel days $64.50

I wonder what Trump is charging for rooms. Of course POTUS can waive the lodging rate which means he can charge us for whatever he wants.

Golf carts not included

https://www.gsa.gov/travel/plan-book/per-diem-rates/per-diem-rates-results?action=perdiems_report&city=&fiscal_year=2025&state=&zip=33480

[DENVERPOPS]

10. I recall from his first term

that he was charging the Secret Service for all their rooms when he was down there for a couple of days every two weeks or so.
Then he tripled the daily rate at some point for their rooms. Then he stipulated that all rooms could only be rented BY THE MONTH, or basically 30 times the increased daily rate, as the monthly rate for the secret service rentals....

As a side note: At one of his golf resorts, he had the Secret Service declare that his fleet of golf carts were far to slow, so they ordered a whole BRAND NEW fleet, at the Tax Payers Expense, that would do twice the speed as the old ones.......

The press always reported his trips on Air Force One as costing a couple of hundred grand.......LOL Of course, that was only the cost of the fuel. It is estimated that the cost per flight to Mar a Lago, is TRULY around TEN MILLION per flight........Not sure that that includes every additional cost, including the cost of the fighter jets that escort the plane anywhere he goes......

[tanyev]

5. If he's working from Mar-a-Lago, then all Americans should be able to call the publicly available

phone number for Mar-a-Lago to get assistance with government services.

[odins folly]

6. Everything republicans do

Reeks of hypocrisy......everything.

[in2herbs]

7. Some say that F47s trips to MAL is to receive medical treatment, the golfing is a side benefit. nt

[DENVERPOPS]

11. I always figured that it was

so he could visit his "Dealer" to pick up his supply of Adderall............

[TheRickles]

8. He could always say that golfing at Mar-a-Lago is the exercise program prescribed by his personal physician.

So it's totally legit, right?

[DENVERPOPS]

12. Not a lot of exercise

if using a golf cart..........The golfers I know say if they want exercise, they walk the entire course using one of those hand carts to carry their clubs......

[TheRickles]

14. I meant "legit' in the Trumpian sense, ie it's BS. :-)

[DENVERPOPS]

15. Do you remember on some foreign

trip where all the leaders in the world walked the 50 yards to the event, and Trump demanded a golf cart or ATV for the walk????

[Cherrycheeks]

9. Just about every event is in..

Florida and he is on vacation everyday.😡

[DENVERPOPS]

13. Anyone remember when Reagan

called his Ranch the Western white house when he would take two week vacations there all the time????? or when WBush would do the same with his Texas Ranch?

In Both cases, in reality, the nation was being run by the HWBush/Cheney CABAL...............and Reagan and WBush were both just showpieces and pawns......