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Posted: Feb 20, 2017

For some of the businesses and government agencies that surround President Trump’s “Winter White House,” the effects of his frequent weekend getaways to Mar-a-Lago can best be told in numbers.

  • $200,000 in lost fuel sales at a large local airport in a single four-day visit this month.
  • 75 no-shows at a new restaurant in just one night.
  • $60,000 a day to pay overtime to sheriff’s deputies who guard the many closed roads, a tab that is about $1.5 million over all since the election.
  • 250 private flights grounded every day.

 

See full story here: https://www.nytimes.com/2017/02/19/us/donald-trump-visits-mar-a-lago-businesses.html

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We've already covered this slanted news story. - sm

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If you want to add something to this discussion, try looking up all the "business damage" that Obama caused whenever he went anywhere (including tying up a commercial airport for hours.)

Facts are facts - Jesus

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Calling the story slanted does not negate the facts it puts forward. And the facts are quite clear - Trump's frequent visits to Mar-a-Lago are hurting local businesses.

He's been in office what, 33 days? And spent 11 of them at Mar-a-Lago?!?!

You mention the "business damage" that Obama caused when he traveled. The simple fact of the matter is that security requirements mean any president will have a negative impact on local businesses wherever they travel. The president must be kept safe, after all.

Obama, however, didn't go to the same town three weekends (so far) in a row!


"I would rarely leave the White House because there's so much work to be done. I would not be a president who took vacations. I would not be a president that takes time off. You don’t have time to take time off."
-- Donald Trump, June 2015

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