His and Hers jets, paid for with YOUR tax dollars: Melania adds another $100,000 to Trump's massive

dailymail.co.uk ^ | 4/14/17 | Geoff Earle

[ColdOne]

Full title.......................His and Hers jets, paid for with YOUR tax dollars: Melania adds another $100,000 to Trump's massive travel tab as she flies separately to Mar-a-Lago with Barron........................Melania Trump flew separately to join President Trump for a long Easter weekend at Mar-a-Lago, getting the chance for some quality family time – while also contributing to her husband's growing taxpayer-paid travel tab.

The first lady arrived in West Palm Beach Thursday on a government aircraft – the military version of a Boeing 757, about 6:30pm, just minutes before her husband landed on Air Force One.

Vice President Mike Pence took the same plane Melania used to a conference in Munich earlier this year.

The first lady lives at Trump Tower with her and the president's son, Barron, whose private school in New York is off this week for spring break.

The per-hour cost of operating the plane is $15,846, meaning the total trip cost was at least $100,000.

[ColdOne]

15k a hour to fly. Anyone have the total hours obama and mooch flew in AF1 and her private AF1? 220k was the cost for her one trip to Aspen.

By the way Daily Mail, I am more than happy for my tax dollars to go to this.

[MNJohnnie]

Thanks Daily Mail your selective outrage is noted and laughed at as the pathetic fake new demagoguery it is.

[Blooms in CA]

Supposedly the total travel for the Obamas over eight years was about $97MM.

[2ndDivisionVet]

The Brits pay US taxes? Boy, we really do have a special relationship!

[Sacajaweau]

Hell....Obama and Moochelle flew separately to Hawaii. I think even the dogs flew separately once.

[JBW1949]

I do not recall Daily Mail ever printed the dollar amount for any Obama trip or expenses...

[dp0622]

Daily Mail often reports important news that doesn’t get reported here.

That’s the good part.

Their left wing bias is the bad part.

[\/\/ayne]

But President Trump has saved billions elsewhere. Fake Story.

[silverleaf]

I’m sure Melania would have flown on her own plane (TRUMP AIR) if she was permitted to do so

So what are they - and we- supposed to do?

I believe he already saved enough taxpayer money by shaving defense contracts to pay his and her weekend expenses for the next 4 years

[MileHi]

Remember how the media railed against the extravagant costs of Barry and Michaels travel and vacations?

Yeah, me either.

[editor-surveyor]

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>> “Hell....Obama and Moochelle flew separately to Hawaii.” <<

That’s because having Moochelle aboard makes Barack’s boy friends uncomfortable.
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[Boris99]

Take it out of the salary that he is not collecting. I love the fake outrage.

[edh]

I wonder why Trump goes to Mar-A-Lago as frequently as he goes. You can make all sorts of DC cesspool jokes, but there has got to be a logical reason for his travel. He knows the optics aren’t *good* when he goes there every weekend and the press love pointing out what it costs for the POTUS to travel.

I tend to think there might be some concern about the WH being bugged or something along those lines. Yes, its conjecture, but its not totally unfounded nonsense, paranoia talk given the Rice news.

Does anyone else have any insight? Chances are he goes there since any sane person would choose Florida over D.C ... but there might be more to it.

[DoodleDawg]

15k a hour to fly. Anyone have the total hours obama and mooch flew in AF1 and her private AF1? 220k was the cost for her one trip to Aspen.

I believe that Judicial Watch, hardly a left-wing organization, estimated that the Obama's leisure-related travel for his two terms cost the tax payers $97 million. They also did the $3.6 million estimate for the Mar a Largo trips.

[SubMareener]

When the Trump Administration travel cost get to $600 Million, give us a call. That is the amount he has already saved on the F35 program.

At least the taxpayers are not paying for trips by Bill Clinton to Pedophile Island!

[Bloody Sam Roberts]

Insight? Perhaps. Safety, security and...he likes it there.

[RC one]

I think she needs to take a nice vacation.

[Nifster]

Well let’s count the times obozo flew separately from his family and the times the dogs flying separately as well

[ColdOne]

I think it is security reason.

[Still Thinking]

Oh, bite me. I don’t remember any outrage when Ebola and beard took separate enormous planes when they went vacay.