In his last remaining minutes as President of the United States, Donald Trump signed a memorandum extending his adult children’s Secret Service protection for an additional six months.
Under law, only he and Melania are entitled to lifelong protection. Meanwhile, 14-year-old Barron, as a minor, is entitled to two years of protection following his father’s departure from the White House.
(All of this is assuming, of course, that Trump isn’t convicted by the Senate in his upcoming second impeachment trial. If he is then he’ll lose all post-presidential benefits, including his elite security detail.)
Protection for Trump’s adult children was set to expire once Biden took office. But the Washington Post reports that taxpayers will continue funding 24-hour security until June for Ivanka Trump, Jared Kushner, and their three kids, as well as with Donald Trump Jr. and his five kids, and Eric and Lara Trump.
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Former treasury secretary Steven Mnuchin, former chief of staff Mark Meadows, and former national security adviser Robert C. O’Brien are also getting extra protection under Trump’s last minute memorandum.
This little perk for the Trump klan is expected to cost taxpayers millions of dollars and will likely put a strain on the federal security force.
The Secret Service was already forced to hire almost four dozen additional full-time agents during Trump’s time in office just to accommodate his family’s excessive security demands due to their frequent vacations, golf outings, and shopping sprees.
Government records show Trump’s family took more than 4,500 trips between 2017 and 2019. The Secret Service was required to travel with them every time, costing taxpayers tens of millions of dollars.
The agency also had to pay $3,000 a month to rent a toilet for Ivanka’s security detail since she wouldn’t let them use any of the six and a half bathrooms in her mansion.
Graham Gremore is the Features Editor and a Staff Writer at Queerty. Follow him on Twitter @grahamgremore.
Creamsicle
One last grift for the road.
Mack
Why? They’re “supposedly” millionaires bordering on “billionaires’ to hear them talk. Why should the taxpayers provide the kids with security-pay for it yourself.
zealot
I hope someone counts the White House silver.
Cam
I wonder if they’ll let them use the bathroom at Mara Lago.
Harley
They can just take a dump out on the golf course. Right on the hole.
dhmonarch89
Mara Lago is a hotel/resort… they probably make them rent a room at triple the rate and have all agents use bathroom in that one room- probably a maid’s room.
missvamp
typical of his pettiness. more reason to convict his sorry ass. to pull all these perks from him & his worthless clan!
TedV
Tiffany, too? Why? We all know she was created just in case Ivanka ever needs organs.
GentlemanCaller
Can’t Biden undo this one too?
Jimmer
My thoughts exactly!!
rbernard
Donald Trump is a scam artist and one who was lucky enough to pull off a plan that serendipitously got him into the White House.
From the start, Donald Trump was unqualified to be president and this unempathetic narcissist was always in it for the grift, the pomp, and mostly to enhance his brand.
Donald Trump is not better than all the other presidents of our nation.
On the contrary, he has been disgraced as America’s only twice impeached president.
He was impeached both times for disgraceful unacceptable behavior of a dishonest unethical cheat.
Donald Trump always takes more than he is entitled to and cost our nation more money than any other US president in history.
I strongly feel Donald Trump and his snarky entitled family should not receive any more security benefits than they are entitled to and as defined by regulation or law.
Hdtex
Ivanka can’t possibly think that any of these agents would take a bullet for her.
If anything they’d push her into the line of fire. And they would be totally justified.
Invader7
I wonder if the SS protection STOPS when the Drumpfs are CONVICTED of state &/or federal FELONIES ? And we know they douche bags won’t NO SS protection in PRISON !!!
Derek Northcutt
I would’ve thought she’d welcome the privacy — no more secret service agents knocking on her door to ask to use the toilet while she’s lying on her bed working her Rabbit vibrator. I know that’s vile to say, but disgusting people deserve every insult they get.