When he was campaigning President Trump oft bashed President Obama for playing golf and said that he would be besides busy to play. Per a HuffPost commodity he said, "I love golf, merely if I were in the White House, I don't think I'd e'er encounter Turnberry once again. I don't think I'd ever meet Doral again," he told a rally audience in February 2022, referring to his form most the Miami airdrome. "I don't ever think I'd see anything. I just want to stay in the White House and work my donkey off."

It took less than two weeks earlier he broke that promise vs. Obama not playing his first round until he had been in office for virtually 3 months and Obama didn't visit a course exterior of the DC surface area until August 2009, seven months after his inauguration. One reason Trump has been able to play so much golf game is that he inherited an economic system that was in very practiced shape vs. Obama taking office in the teeth of the Great Recession.

Equally can be seen in the chart below from trumpgolfcount.com, Trump has played at least 88 rounds of golf game since he became President, has likely played 139 and has visited golf courses over 193 days. These compare to Obama's 76 outings over the same timeframe.

Trump'due south golf outings

Trump's golf trips have well-nigh exclusively been to his properties. Below is a breakdown of Trump'south visits.

Trump golf outings over 2 and a one-half years

  • 1 of 193 outings were to the President'due south Cup
  • two of 193 outings were in Japan
  • 3 of 193 outings were at Trump's Ireland class
  • 190 of 193 outings were to Trump's golf properties
  • 20 flights to Bedminster, New Jersey, to visit Trump's course
  • 24 flights to Mar-a-Lago

At his current stride Trump will visit his golf properties about 310 times and if he is re-elected it would 620.

Then far Trump'due south golf trips have cost at least $105 million

Trump's trips to his golf courses are very expensive and much more than Obama'southward since Trump's have been more frequent and usually requires Air Force 1 and all the accompanying security arraignments.

From a combination of an assay from the HuffPost, the GAO or General Accounting Office, Politico and the Washington Mail using costs from both Obama and Trump golf game trips the estimated price of Trump'south visits so far come up to a range of $105 to $108 one thousand thousand. When yous extrapolate the $105 one thousand thousand estimate to eight years, assuming Trump is re-elected, the total cost is over $340 million.

The GAO report estimated that just four of Trump's trips to Mar-a-Lago cost:

  • $13.half dozen 1000000
  • Practise not "capture all of the total expenditures by the authorities"
  • Do non "include certain classified cost information"
  • $lx,000 in expenses paid to Mar-a-Lago (at that place have been 24 so far)
  • Were non able to identify meals and incidental expenses, if whatever, that may take been incurred at the Mar-a-Lago club

To put $340 1000000 into perspective it is:

  • 106 times Trump'southward $400,000 salary over 8 years combined (which he is donating back to the government)
  • Almost twice the $190 million annual cost for the Peace Corps
  • $25 million more the $315 million annual toll for the Full general Accounting Function
  • About x times the approximately $35 million cost of the Mueller investigation
  • But in reality Mueller's team brought in more it spent due to acquiring enough of Manafort's assets to more than than pay the full cost