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Video clips and news accounts show President Trump saying a phrase widely rendered as “smart people don’t like me” at a private gala in Bedminster; outlets including The Daily Beast, RGJ and USA Today...
Reporting spanning 2016–2025 documents multiple instances where Trump Organization properties employed people who lacked legal work authorization or where contractors used undocumented labor — includi...
Recent media analyses converge on one central finding: estimates of taxpayer costs from Donald Trump’s golf trips vary widely but consistently show spent, driven by transportation and security expense...
Available reporting indicates President Donald Trump was publicly documented playing golf over the U.S. Thanksgiving weekend — with video and press coverage dated Nov. 29–30, 2025 — and outlets cite t...
Available sources report counts and estimates but disagree on definitions. CREW says Trump made 62 visits to his golf courses in the first six months of his second term and 99 visits to his properties...
Multiple recent reports estimate that individual Trump golf outings can impose costs on taxpayers, but the figures vary because sources distinguish between a single-event tally, cumulative spending, a...
Documents and reporting show the U.S. Secret Service and related federal spending routed nearly $2 million to Trump properties for protection, lodging, and support during presidential travel and stays...
The claims divide into two measurable questions: how much taxpayer money has paid for President Trump's travel and how much has been spent protecting or servicing his golf and club visits. Available a...
President Donald Trump’s golf- and leisure-related costs to taxpayers are reported across the provided analyses as substantially larger and more contested than those for Presidents Barack Obama and Jo...
The available documents show the Trump Organization and related Trump businesses reported roughly in a 2024 financial disclosure, with additional estimates putting 2024 cash flow after expenses around...
Donald Trump’s presidential golf travel produced widely varying public cost estimates, but all informed analyses show taxpayer costs tied to Trump’s golf and weekend travel than comparable metrics att...
As of 2025, the clearest, consistently reported ongoing tax abatements affecting Trump Organization golf properties are at in New Jersey, where parcels qualify for farmland assessment-based tax breaks...
The core claim is that the U.S. Secret Service has incurred substantial taxpayer costs to secure former President Trump during golf trips, including contracts for golf cart rentals and portable toilet...
No credible reporting shows that FBI agents executed a search warrant at Trump Tower in Manhattan; the most prominent FBI intervention involving Donald Trump is the August 2022 search of his Mar‑a‑Lag...
Independent trackers and news analyses show that the bulk of 2025 taxpayer spending tied to President Trump’s golf outings flowed to his Florida properties — specifically Mar‑a‑Lago and nearby Palm Be...
Available public records and watchdog analyses show that Secret Service spending tied to protecting Donald Trump at his properties is unevenly documented: watchdog CREW found roughly $1.75–$2.0 millio...
Investigations and reporting have repeatedly named several Trump Organization properties — most prominently the Trump National Golf Club in Bedminster, N.J. — as sites where undocumented workers were ...
C‑SPAN posted the full video of former President Donald Trump’s Aug. 15, 2024 press conference at his Bedminster, New Jersey golf club on its website under the Campaign 2024 programming page, where th...
A number of fuller transcripts and at least one broadcast video of former President Trump’s remarks at his Bedminster, New Jersey events exist in the public record: an archived White House transcript ...
Donald Trump’s golf trips as president did involve substantial government expenses, primarily for travel and security, with multiple oversight reports and news analyses attributing millions per trip a...