STERLING, Va. – President Donald Trump on Friday again used taxpayer resources to promote his personal for-profit business, flying Marine One from the White House to his Virginia golf course to speak at the ongoing Saudi Arabia-backed golf tournament there, and bringing the taxpayer total for travel and security for such trips to nearly $18 million.
Trump’s golf courses have partnered with LIV Golf, which was heavily funded by the Saudi government and is now in deep financial trouble, since its inception in 2021 and have hosted multiple tournaments. This is Trump’s second taxpayer-funded trip to promote an LIV event since he retook office last January.
Between those trips, a recent visit to a PGA tournament at his course in Doral, Florida, and other trips to promote his own financial interests, Trump has spent a total of $17.7 million of taxpayer money for travel and security during his second term.
Trump’s White House did not respond to HuffPost queries about what, if any, benefit there was to American taxpayers from his visit to the LIV event and whether he planned to reimburse the government for the cost of flying him there using the contingent of Marine helicopters at his disposal.
