Posted on 12/17/2016 2:21:25 PM PST by NYer
According to Judicial Watch – the Obama family vacations have cost taxpayers more than $85 MILLION. And, guess what? They royal family is off to Hawaii again for their annual Christmas vacation. Aloha!
The Washington Times reports – It’s travel time for both President Obama and President-elect Donald Trump this weekend, but for widely different reasons. Mr. Obama departs Friday for his Christmas vacation in Hawaii, the last while he is in office. Judicial Watch recently revealed that, to date, the first family’s personal travel expenses have totaled more than $85 million. Last year’s jaunt to Hawaii cost $4.8 million, according to the watchdog, which bases the estimates on information from Freedom of Information Act requests and factors such as the cost of aircraft fuel, among other things. Well. Let’s just say aloha here, ‘tis the season. Enjoy Hawaii. Mr. Obama returns to the nation’s capital Jan. 3.
Meanwhile, Mr. Trump so far has met with 90 prospective Cabinet members in his New York City offices, this according to his transition team. But he has not forgotten his “USA thank you tour,” meant to recognize steadfast voters who never deserted him during a particularly grueling campaign. On Friday, Mr. Trump journeys to Orlando, Florida, for a jumbo rally, accompanied by Vice President-elect Mike Pence. Saturday finds Mr. Trump solo in Mobile, Alabama, for a midafternoon event in a stadium. It is evident that he relishes these jubilant voter visits — very local and authentically down home in nature. They also worked for him.
A few numbers to remember: Mr. Trump won 306 electoral votes, the most for a Republican since George H.W. Bush in 1988. He carried nine of 13 battleground states. He won more than 2,600 counties nationwide, the most since President Reagan in 1984. Additionally, he won 62 million votes in the popular vote, the highest all-time for a Republican nominee — this tally from incoming White House Chief of Staff Reince Priebus.
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I’m happy to pay for as many vacations as possible. These extended golf outings are FAR cheaper and less destructive than the time that usurper spends in our White House. I hope he will stay in Hawaii forever, or Indonesia, whichever one is his real home.
Future Dem presidents will take that amount as a baseline and a challenge to beat.
Thieving bastard.
AF1 alone is only about 2 million...One way.
Do you believe that the funds have not been appropriated by the Republican House?
Obama’s vacations are unpresidented. On Jan 20, he will be completely unpresidented!
They should be paying taxes on all these gifts from the tax payers
All that money has been appropriated by Congress.
He hasn't "spent it on himself" - YOUR representatives and Senators have spent it on him.
that’s two times you posted that- I made no point about where the money came from- the FACT is that he and his family have blown through $12 BILLION dollars of taxpayer’s money and we got ripped off- I posted the info to point out that taking care of him has been a collosal waSTE OF MONEY-
You keep capitalizing “YOUR” like they don’t represent you- Are you a democrat?
This is ridiculous. He has less than 35 days left in office. A VACATION?
limited, or capped. needs to have some point at which they start picking up the tab.
Wish someone would search and find out JUST HOW MANY TRIPS TO HAWAII, THE OBAMAS MADE BEFORE HE BECAME POTUS...
I read some where that they made trips to Hawaii at Christmas time before tax payers began paying for them...can’t find out when he traveled to Hawaii at his own expense...Mooch didn’t even like his family and the girls barely knew his grandparents...
He is such a Liar and story teller..fake all the way through. Will be a day of REJOICING WHEN THEY ALL LEAVE AND TAKE VAL JAR AND HER MOTHER WITH THEM...THEY BOTH HAVE BEEN MOOCHERS OFF TAX PAYERS FOR EIGHT YEARS...ENOUGH IS ENOUGH...
“A few numbers to remember: Mr. Trump won 306 electoral votes, the most for a Republican since George H.W. Bush in 1988.”
A little off-topic, but that seems so weird now, doesn’t it? I mean, comparatively?
I see what you did there...
Maybe some native Hawaiians will throw BO and MO into a volcano to please Pele, the Hawaiian god of volcanoes. At least I can hope...
Many taxpayers’ vacations have a $0 price tag.
How many planes were flown out to Hawaii this year’s vacay?
Starting with grandma and ValJar.
“Oh c’mon give us the “real” figure. They carried more than that in spending money to Morocco. Also need the figures on golf course fees and money spent on golf clubs.”
No kidding, they keep throwing around the “$85 million” number, it’s probably closer to ten times that. Kind of like the “11 million” people in the country illegally, a number that hasn’t changed in 20 years or more.
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