New Book Claims Melania Trump Cost Americans At Least $64,000 For A Spa Weekend

This should piss everyone off.


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A new book on the US Secret Service authored by Washington Post reporter Carol Leonnig has revealed some startling details, including that two Trump family members got “inappropriately – and perhaps dangerously – close” to agents protecting them. Currently, Melania Trump spends her time going to the spa at the couple’s Florida resort, Mar-a-Lago. “She goes to the spa, has lunch, goes to the spa (again), and has dinner with Donald on the patio, one source revealed in February. So, it’s established that she’s a spa kind of woman.

Well, according to Leonnig, the former first lady spent a fuckton of taxpayer money after she became “furious” and “blindsided” by reports about Trump’s alleged affair with adult film star Stormy Daniels, so she took an impromptu, two-day trip to Mar-a-Lago, The Mercury News reports.

That quick trip to Mar-a-Lago possibly cost American taxpayers at least $64,000 in costs, from traveling on a military C-32A plane, the outlet reports.

Leonnig writes that Secret Service costs were estimated to run as high as $600 million during Trump’s four-year term. Meanwhile, as the outlet notes, former President Barack Obama’s “critics excoriated him for his golf trips, Hawaii vacations and security costs that amounted to around $97 million over eight years, agents immediately began running “full throttle” with the Trump family, with the president’s trips to his Mar-a-Lago resort in Florida, and to his golf clubs in New Jersey and Virginia.”

That’s reminiscent of how Trump lashed out every time Obama played golf; then, when the former reality TV show star took office, he soon outpaced his predecessor with golf outings.

“They [the Secret Serice] also had to provide details for 18 of his family members,” the outlet reports. “That meant “dashing to Dubai, Uruguay, Saudi Arabia, and Aspen” as his children “played” or promoted the Trump organization.”

Before Donald Trump vacated the White House in disgrace, he extended Secret Service protection to 13 family members for six months. And while that’s not unheard of for a president’s minor children,” it’s unusual for presidents to do so their adult children, as Trump did for Ivanka, Donald Jr., Eric, and Tiffany Trump,” the report adds. And this is another reason why nepotism is a bad idea. I’m not too happy about paying for Melania’s spa outings, are you?

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