Posted on 03/28/2017 12:39:59 PM PDT by EinNYC
More than 108,000 people have signed a petition urging First Lady Melania Trump to move to the White House or pay for security costs at Trump Tower herself.
The Change.org petition was started after a senior White House aide indicated the president’s wife and son, Barron, will remain in New York until the school year ends. It’ll be delivered to Vermont Sen. Bernie Sanders and Massachusetts Sen. Elizabeth Warren if at least 150,000 people sign.
“The U.S. taxpayer is paying an exorbitant amount of money to protect the First Lady in Trump Tower, located in New York City,” the petition reads. “As to help relieve the national debt, this expense yields no positive results for the nation and should be cut from being funded.”
The NYPD estimated it costs between $127,000 and $146,000 per day to protect Mrs. Trump and Barron while President Trump is out of town, according to the New York Times. The cost to guard Mr. Trump and his family between the election and Inauguration Day reached $24 million, the NYPD said.
Comments beneath the Change.org petition highlighted the signers’ dissatisfaction over the first family’s use of taxpayer funds.
“Living in the White House is what you do when you are married to the president,” one commenter identified as Sheila Forsyth of Newport, Rhode Island, wrote. “The tax money saved by eliminating these extra protection expenses can be used to feed senior citizens. Why is our tax money being spent on people who already have more than their fair share?”
Melania Trump is the only first lady since Anna Harrison not to make the White House her residence. Barron Trump, the son of the president and the first lady, attends school in New York. Trump’s frequent weekend trips to his private club Mar-a-Lago in Palm Beach, Florida, have also spurred criticism over costs to secure a non-White House location, on top of travel costs.
I guess we must have missed the push to force Mooch to pay for her lavish vacations.
don’t forget Malaria and Sharia being classified as ‘senior WH staffers’ by executive orders so they can go on a taxpayer funded African Safari and see the ‘homeland’!
Are signers names published?
Bingo!
They are not going to allow this family one minute’s peace are they?
# 24
Thank you for posting the link, I haven’t watched that for ages! I had forgotten how corny that show was (excuse the pun)
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100,000+ signed and 330,000,000 did NOT sign.
First problem: The White House is NOT secure.
Melania cannot even begin to touch the excesses of the
Mooch’s endless vacations over an 8-yr. period. -
Mrs. Trump and their young child are staying put so he
can finish the school year where he is doing well. She
does not want to uproot him unnecessarily. They plan on
moving into the White House when Barron’s school year is
finished; but rest assured she will do what is best for him.
Call me when her excesses equal the excesses of Moocher
Obama and her spawn.
And aren’t they doing the same thing? Hussein is going here and there while Mooch stays in Washington with the one daughter, plus the other daughter gets a detail in New York.
They’re worse!
Doesn’t Malia Obama have SS protection while she is living, working, and getting drunk in NYC? And Obama has protection while he lounges around French Polynesia. And Mooch has it while she is in DC. Seems to me the Obama’s are still spending more on security than the Trumps.
I guess the snowflakes want this money going to house illegals and refugees. I’ve learned it’s never the amount of money being spent that these people object to, it’s who it’s being spent on!
I think these costs should be questioned. I’d bet that every police helicopter flying over NYC is now being charged to ‘first lady protection’, and probably half the officers in their command center, etc...IOW, I don’t trust these numbers at all.
Saving us plenty of money on the 24 servants. Bet she hates that and would just like one cook in the kitchen.
Barry signed to withdraw Secret Service from ex first daughters at the age of 16 but somehow, 18 year old Malia still has hers and Sasha will turn 16 in June.
Did these people raise objections to Michelle Obama’s multimillion dollar trips or Bill Clinton’s obscenely expensive trip to China?
Lunatics. LIBs. LOL.
She'd be safer footing the bill for her own security.
Bathouse Barry EO’ed the kids in to supercede the security rules...
Honestly? It has to be a pain in the neck, for NYC dwellers and businesses, who have already been through so much and remain at risk and also the number 1 target in perpetuity.
The Trump’s have been very brave or very foolish to finish a school term. Mercifully, they have remained safe.
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