Trump’s shutdown golf trip pushes taxpayer tab soaring to staggering new heights
Donald Trump isn't about to let the impending hunger of millions of Americans impede his golf game.
The Huffington Post reported that the president "marked the first full month of the ongoing government shutdown Friday by blaming it all on Democrats and taking a $3.4 million golf trip to Florida, bringing the total that taxpayers have spent on his hobby to $60.7 million since he retook the presidency in January."
The report also teed up this eye-popping scorecard.
"In his first nine months in office, Trump has played golf at his own resorts in Florida, New Jersey and Scotland 76 times. If he plays golf Saturday, it will be his 77th day on one of his courses on his 286th day in office, meaning he will have played golf on 27 percent of his second-term days. This includes a golf vacation in Scotland that cost taxpayers some $10 million during which he had the White House promote his opening of a new course at his resort in Aberdeen."
It would appear that Trump is on pace to surpass his first-term golfing totals. The Huffington Post reported that "from 2017 to 2021, Trump played a total of 293 days of golf on courses he owns and cost taxpayers $151.5 million to do so."
Trump famously criticized President Barack Obama throughout his eight years of office for playing too much golf.
“He may play more golf than any human being in America, and I'm not sure that's good for the president," Trump said.
CNN fact-checkers worked out that Obama spent 333 days playing golf during his eight years as US president. That average of 43 days per year is less than half of Trump's 2025 pace.