This just in: First Lady Melania Trump’s private flights between New York and Washington, D.C. during the first six months of her husband’s presidency cost taxpayers a whopping $675,000, according to military records obtained by the Wall Street Journal.
The documents show that from January to June 2017, Melania took 19 trips to LaGuardia Airport and another nine to Palm Beach’s international airport. And all so little Barron could finish the fifth grade without being uprooted mid-school year.
Trump spokeswoman Stephanie Grisham poo-pooed the reports, saying Melania was just being a good mother.
“It is no secret that Mrs. Trump lived in New York City the first few months of the administration so that her son could finish school,” Grisham said. “The trips mentioned in this story are examples of Mrs. Trump juggling dual roles–putting her son first while also fulfilling some of her duties as First Lady.”
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For comparison, Michelle Obama solo traveling costs were $2.8 million over eight years.
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In other Melania news: The First Lady has allegedly been staying at a luxury D.C. hotel away from her husband following reports that he had an affair with porn star Stormy Daniels back in 2006 then paid her $130,000 in hush money.
“It’s been upsetting and humiliating,” a source from inside the White House told the Daily Mail. “Her relationship with President Trump has become strained.”
In addition to skipping out on their thirteenth wedding anniversary, Melania was supposed to join her husband at the World Economic Forum in Davos, Switzerland last week but backed out at the last minute to instead go on a solo trip to West Palm Beach.
The White House insider adds, “Melania spends three to four days a week away from the White House and has stayed at a hotel in D.C. multiple times in January, often for days at a time. She also travels up to New York.”
“Melania seems to be actively limiting the time she spends with her husband. … If she is seen with him in public she’s very robotic, she smiles and then they go their separate ways.”
We can hardly wait to see how much that hotel bill is gonna cost us!
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Paco
Republicans are only fiscally conservative when a Democrat is in power. Nothing new here.
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funny comment considering the $$$ the Obamas spent on fun and games. kind of stupid to damn one, and not the other, but like the song says every where I look stupid people are breeding.
charlietex
All what fun and games? There is no comparison between what we are paying for the trumps travel and what we paid for the Obamas. If you want to make a comment like that you had better back it up with facts. And the problem with you finding those is that they don’t agree with you.
SiamSam
If you want accountable government, vote Republican. It’s mostly only Republican administrations get held to account. Watching the media give Obama the world’s longest blowjob was nauseating.
mhoffman953
@charlietex
I believe that mtgarman is referencing when the Obama’s took a vacation to Africa which cost $100 million https://www.theatlantic.com/politics/archive/2013/06/obama-africa-trip-photos/314264/
DCguy
It’s funny when Mo Bros screenames come in with their same lies.
That 100 million that was supposedly spent on the OBamas trip? Interesting that what Republicans ALWAYS leave out is that most of that was money ALREADY BEING SPENT.
In other words, Republicans lied and claimed the money for limos that were already part of the government fleet, Agents that were ALREADY drawing a salary, equipment that was already owned.
In other words, the government already owned all the equipment, but Republicans pretended it was all being purchased for the trip. Government was already paying Secret Service agents a salary but Republicans pretended this was new money being spent ONLY because of the trip.
So keep lying, but please try to hide it better.
mhoffman953
@DCguy
Why are you blaming Republicans for that report about the $100 million vacation when the news was reported and discovered by the Huffington Post?
DCguy
mhoffman953 said……
@DCguy
Why are you blaming Republicans for that report about the $100 million vacation when the news was reported and discovered by the Huffington Post?
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Notice how easily the trolls lie?
Also notice that this troll didn’t put up a link to prove that the Huffington Post is the one that first reported this? Because it’s a lie. But the troll is trying to pretend a “Liberal” publication put it out.
Nice try troll.
mhoffman953
In Spring of 2017, Queerty said originally that Melania was costing taxpayers $1 million per day. I guess that wasn’t true
Juanjo
Miss Hoffman – I am sure you can post a link to support your claim. Then you can explain how it is relevant to the data presented here.
mhoffman953
@Juanjo
Sure, here: https://www.queerty.com/melania-trump-no-plans-live-white-house-shes-still-going-redecorate-20170207
That’s the story where Queerty said Melania Trump won’t ever be moving in the White House.
I don’t mind helping the elderly, but you really should learn how to use the search feature on this site.
DCguy
It’s interesting that you can’t provide a link proving that.
Wow, you trolls are TERRIBLE at this.
mhoffman953
@DCguy
Um…I just did in my previous comment. Please read before commenting
DCguy
Actually the story said she had no plans to move into the White House. That isn’t what you claimed. So nice try.
mhoffman953
@DCguy
Then clearly you didn’t read the entire story and missed the part which said, “at a reported taxpayer cost of $1 million per day, or $1.4 billion over the course of four years”. LOL You’re either willfully ignorant or just trying to be a pain
Kangol
mhoffman953, Donald and Melania Trump (and their son) were costing New York City taxpayers $1 million per day after he was elected but before he moved to Washington, DC. That is more than any other recent president. As things are going, his constant vacations and golfing, and his wife’s flights are racking up far more $$$ than the Obamas, Bushes or Clintons ever did for the first year their presidencies.
Mandrake
I wonder what Michelle Obama spent every six months on her private flights with her two daughters. Can anybody venture a guess?
marc sfe
Read the article. $2.8 million over 8 years which equates to $2,916.67/month. Melania so far, $112,500.00 / month.
marc sfe
edit: $29,166.67 / month…..
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don’t forget all the handlers she had to have as well. usual first lady 1. Obamas wife,around 28, and lets not forget too her mom lived and traveled on our dime too. grandma Obama also is getting a retirement pension least we forget that.
neither side is guilt free.
DCguy
I wonder why the right wing troll account and all it’s screename can’t find a link outlining any of that.
Interesting how rabid your one account and all 15 of it’s screenames get over anything involving Melania. Maybe you’re all Russian trolls and you feel a kinship with her since she’s from Eastern Europe.
Heywood Jablowme
“so little Barron could finish the fifth grade without being uprooted mid-school year.”
You act as if that’s nothing. As a kid I was “uprooted mid-school year” and I know it’s traumatic! Damn, I wouldn’t wish that on any kid. Here’s one liberal Trump-hater who says: Please let’s not gripe about that relatively minor portion of the expenses.
marc sfe
Seems to me the Bush girls were uprooted. The Obama girls were uprooted…..
mhoffman953
@marc sfe
And look how they turned out…
DCguy
@mhoffman953 said about the Bush girls and the Obama girls.
And look how they turned out…
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Please detail what you mean by that. As far as I can see the Bush girls and Obama girls turned out fine. So please try to avoid your trolling tactic of making an insinuation and back it with details.
mhoffman953
@DCguy
You really seem triggered today. I wonder if ShareBlue cut you rate.
I was referencing Obama’s daughter who smokes pot and shakes her ass in public
DCguy
Interesting, so it went from the Bushes AND the Obama daughters now to one girl.
Please feel free to post a link since you’ve had two opportunities to do so and haven’t.
Oh, and since you trolls have always attacked the Obama daughters, I’m guessing that is you saying that people should now report on Baron Trump and a few things that seem to be going on there?
Heywood Jablowme
@marc sfe:
Much as I enjoy all this off-topic mess, the Obama girls were NOT “uprooted” in 2009 when their father became president. He was already a senator so the girls were already going to school in DC. So there!
The Bush girls? Weren’t they already ADULTS in 2001?
mhoffman953
@DCguy
“Please feel free to post a link since you’ve had two opportunities to do so and haven’t”
You want me to post links to Malia Obama smoking dope and grinding her ass into guys on camera? http://www.dailymail.co.uk/news/article-3733490/Did-Malia-Obama-smoke-MARIJUANA-Lollapalooza-Explosive-video-shows-president-s-eldest-daughter-puffing-suspicious-cigarette.html There you go
“I’m guessing that is you saying that people should now report on Baron Trump and a few things that seem to be going on there”
There’s the difference, your describing things that “seem” to be going on whereas I’m describing things that are actually happening. If Barron Trump was caught smoking dope and grinding his ass in public, then yes, I’m saying you should now report it.
If you want to run conspiracy theories about someone, which you’re suggesting, then no that is not right to do.
leobaga
I looked who’s the author. Ha! It’s Graham again. Oh Graham, you’re so full of hate and meanness.
DCguy
So pointing out the cost is apparently “mean”?
Yet your account attacking the looks of a woman in her 70’s wasn’t. Ok, I get the Republican rules.
Heywood Jablowme
Graham cracker goodness. Marshmallow S’mores Gremore. I’m starting to like him.
darren michaels
I have had a recurring visual that Melania must be sick of witnessing. In a dark room, a door across the floor is ajar allowing light to stream in from the ensuite. DJT is walking towards the light resulting in the light creating a halo effect around him. As he continues walking the light highlights DJT’s saggy orange old man ass. Melania’s greatest reaction as first lady has been her vacating the WH for a luxury DC hotel. I hope she avoided staying in a Trump Hotel, checking into any other hotel would definitely compromise DJT’s fragile ego, the perfect “fu@k you”.
Ari Gold
Instead of blaming Melania, how about we direct that anger at our crappy government allocating our taxes to pay for her flights and hotel stays. Why the hell are we even paying for their expenses in the first place?
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ari we paid for all the stuff the obamas did!
Roy Moss
Humiliating? Mrs. Trump is little more than a prostitute herself so why would she be humiliated?
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like you know….
such small minded jealous little drones, everything I see shows no logical thought process to come to a conclusion on ones own, just jumping on the bandwagon…. no one left behind, left behind the whole nation.
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my view on this is simple.
the trumps haven’t done anything different then the Obamas, or any other ex-presidents family did while in office. Can’t pick on just one family, when they are all guilty of it.
Kangol
The Trumpkins HAVE done things differently from every other first family. You hate the Obamas, we get it. But try to be objective for a change, please. Trumpkin ranted and raged about Obama’s golfing, and Trump has spent 1/3 of his first YEAR golfing, and at his private for-pay club, which is grossly unethical since he is making money from and allowing private people to buy access to him. It’s disgusting. Seriously. I couldn’t stand George W. Bush, who was a disaster many times over, but not even he goofed off as much as Trump does. And then we’re still paying FAR MORE for Mrs. Trump than Michelle Obama ($115,000/month > $2,000/month –even conservatives can do that math) or any other first lady ever spent, even accounting for current dollars!
DCguy
Actually they have done things differently. One he is flying off to Florida nearly every weekend, two, he is funneling money to his own businesses by charging the govt for going there.
But nice try.
Oh, and Mo Bro, nice touch on adding the e-mail to this screename to make it seem different.
Notright
All politicians cost the country money. Most of them are flat out useless. That being said I’m disturbed by this blogs obvious bias. Not all gays are anti trump. I even found an article by an gay black guy and his white boyfriend that voted for Trump. https://goo.gl/n5KSBu . I couldn’t believe it but I guess they are out there. I’m not taking sides. I’m just saying all voices of the queer community should be heard on here.
DCguy
Wow, you found an article about TWO people who voted for Trump?
It’s funny how obvious the anti-lgbt, bigoted Trup Trolls are. They think everything is about appearance and identity politics, and so they DESPERATELY try to say things like “oh, well I found an article about a BLACK GUY!”
My response. Oh, you found an article by two self hating queens still carrying baggage from their bigoted parents? How nice for you.
And sweetie, the fact that you desperately shy away from stating any facts and pull the old “Oh, both sides,” or “Different Opinion” B.S. because you can’t state that actual issue makes it so obvious you’re a troll. When a politician runs on harming lgbts, crying that lgbt blogs don’t like him just exposes you for the sad troll you are.
But apparently the RNC or Putin are getting nervous. I’ve noticed a definite uptick in the number of troll screenames posting recently.
Brody
obsession (n); ub-SES-shun:
an idea or thought that continually preoccupies or intrudes on a person’s mind;
the state of being obsessed with someone or something;
Queerty’s fixation with disparaging Melania Trump for being a lovelier, classier FLOTUS than her predecessor.
DCguy
Awww, how cute, Brody attacked 70 something Nancy Pelosi’s appearance but is upset that the actual numbers and spending rate about Melania was factually used.
Sorry, try again
mhoffman953
DCguy is suffering from Trump Derangement Syndrome. I’m not sure why he keeps bringing up Nancy Pelosi, but he’ll be the first to cry when someone mentions Hillary Clinton
DCguy
Awww, sweetie, YOU brought up Pelosi. But keep on trying to deflect from the amount of money spent on Melania’s travel.
Brody
In all honesty, mhoff, I don’t read his comments. There’s nothing to glean but baseless anger, hilarious hysteria, panicky paranoia, and frenzied finger-pointing.
Frankly, I’d rather visit a 19th-century dentist than be made privy to his ramblings.
mhoffman953
@DCguy
Um…when in this topic did I bring up Nancy Pelosi? You brought her up multiple times in this topic and brought up her looks.
I’m really starting to think you’re getting delirious
ShaunNJ
Melania and Donald’s marital woes, brought on by his infidelity, should not cost us taxpayers a penny. Isn’t she independently a multi-millionaire from hawking jewelry on TV and “modeling”? Trump has plenty of money despite being a terrible businessman, lately through conflicts of interest (like having Secret Service pay for accommodation at Mar-a-Lago and Trump Tower / the Post Office hotel). The Trumps should pay for her personal choice to sleep separately from a cheating husband, as opposed to moving down the hall like Jacqueline Kennedy – a real First Lady.
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