And we are conditioned to treating our Presidents as royalty. The Last President who lived frugally was Calvin Coolidge. Harry Truman lived something like a middle class life style. Jimmy Carter made a show of it, but Reagan brought back the imperial style, which Obama is now doing with “Flash.”
Ronald Reagan made sure that he paid for his horses feed at his ranch. The Secret Service horse feed was paid for by the Secret Service.
The evil thief we have in there today probably pays for very little.