"In total, Trump's visit to Turnberry cost the Secret Service more than $2 million"

[Miles Archer]

Trump Profits From Secret Service Staying at His $900-a-Night Hotel

https://www.thedailybeast.com/trump-profits-from-secret-service-staying-at-his-900-a-night-hotel/

The Secret Service spent $48,040.54 at Trump Turnberry (approximately $900 a night, double occupancy) during the president’s stop from July 25 to July 28. That’s according to documents provided to The Swamp by the agency in response to a Freedom of Information Act request. The Secret Service also spent $5,067.57 at the Trump International Golf Links Aberdeen for just one night on July 28.

When Air Force One landed, he got an official reception from the U.K. government in the form of Scottish Secretary Ian Murray (as well as Warren Stephens, U.S. Ambassador to the U.K.) but then it was straight to his Turnberry resort, in South Ayrshire. While there he met with British Prime Minister Keir Starmer and European Commission President Ursula von der Leyen. But he also got in some golf the morning after arrival and then traveled 200 miles north-east to his other Scottish property to cut the ribbon on its new 18-hole course and, of course, tee off again.

The more than $53,000 the Secret Service spent at Trump hotels was just a fraction of the full cost of the president’s visit to the protective agency alone.

In total, the president’s visit to Turnberry cost the Secret Service more than $2 million, including more than $800,000 on multiple hotels and more than $1.1 million on other expenses such as rentals. His visit to Aberdeen alone cost the Secret Service more than $1.6 million, including more than $368,000 on various hotels and $1.2 million on other costs such as car rentals and other services. It is not clear how much of the other costs also were paid to Trump businesses.