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Secret Service Reportedly Put Up At Trump’s $900-A-Night Hotel, Lining His Pockets

A Trump facility got another payday from Secret Service bookings.

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Donald Trump has long been accused of trying to profit from his office, and one method of doing so is by staying at, and requiring the Secret Service to stay at, Trump-branded properties. MSNBC wrote about this during Trump’s first term, calling it “Trump’s Secret Service hotel racket.”

This has continued in the president’s second term, and there was recently one particularly egregious example of this.

According to The Daily Beast, “the president’s Secret Service entourage racked up hotel bills of more than $53,000 during a recent, all expenses paid golfing trip to cut the ribbon on his latest links course in Scotland.” That $53,000, the report said, went straight into the pockets of the Trump Organization.

“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 report said. “The Secret Service also spent $5,067.57 at the Trump International Golf Links Aberdeen for just one night on July 28.”

Overall, per the report, it was an expensive trip for the American taxpayer.
“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,” the report said. “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.”

Newsweek reported in the spring about the Secret Service spending over $1 million on security for Mar-a-Lago, even during the period when Trump was an ex-candidate and not yet the president again.
“According to federal procurement data, the Secret Service spent more than $1.4 million on security contracts for the perimeter of Mar-a-Lago between August 2024 and February 2025. This period spanned Trump’s presidential campaign up to his first two months in office. One contract was worth $478,000 in February 2025,” the Newsweek report said.
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Stephen Silver is an award-winning journalist, essayist and film critic, and contributor to the Philadelphia Inquirer, the Jewish Telegraphic Agency, Broad Street Review and Splice Today. The co-founder of the Philadelphia Film Critics Circle, Stephen lives in suburban Philadelphia with his wife and two sons. Stephen has authored thousands of articles that focus on politics, technology, and the economy.

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