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Wicked Blue

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Wed Feb 19, 2025, 11:46 AM Feb 2025

Donald Trump Has Already Spent $10.7 Million Of Taxpayer Money Playing Golf

HuffPost

WASHINGTON — Donald Trump has already spent $10.7 million of taxpayer money to play golf since retaking the White House last month, an expense that appears to have escaped the attention of his “Department of Government Efficiency” waste, fraud and abuse hunters.

The golf-related expenses — which are likely to recur most weekends while Trump is in office — have somehow flown below the radar of Elon Musk and his “high-IQ” team, as Trump calls them, of programmers who are ransacking their way through the federal budget and labeling items they do not like or appear not to understand as “fraud.”

Even as they point out five- and six-figure contracts and grants as wasteful, they have ignored each of Trump’s seven-figure golf trips to date. A search of posts by DOGE on Musk’s social media website once known as Twitter found zero mentions of the word “golf.”

A senior White House official directed questions about DOGE — which Trump created by executive order on his first day in office — to the White House press office. Neither that office, however, nor multiple officials in the Trump White House responded to HuffPost’s queries about the four golf trips.

https://www.huffpost.com/entry/donald-trump-golf-doge_n_67b50fbfe4b0319f377e6c6a

Next, will TSF declare, "Let them eat golfballs"?


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Donald Trump Has Already Spent $10.7 Million Of Taxpayer Money Playing Golf (Original Post) Wicked Blue Feb 2025 OP
Donald Trump has spent $10.7 million of taxpayer money playing golf since returning to the White House last month. LetMyPeopleVote Feb 2025 #1

LetMyPeopleVote

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1. Donald Trump has spent $10.7 million of taxpayer money playing golf since returning to the White House last month.
Wed Feb 19, 2025, 01:30 PM
Feb 2025


ATTENTION DOGE!

Donald Trump has spent $10.7 million of taxpayer money playing golf since returning to the White House last month.

That will be over 128 MILLION by the end of the year


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