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President Donald Trump did announce that he planned to host senior Taliban leaders at Camp David and in Washington in September 2019, then abruptly cancelled those meetings after a Taliban attack; con...
Confirmed public reporting shows at least one official subterranean passage from the White House East Wing to the Treasury Building — roughly 761 feet long — built in the World War II era as an evacua...
Counts of Barack Obama’s presidential “vacation” days vary by methodology: CBS’s Mark Knoller and outlets that use his tally count Obama as taking 235 days away on 29 vacation trips and 93 days at Cam...
Donald Trump’s golf-related costs to taxpayers are reported as far larger than typical presidential weekend or golf travel in recent administrations, with multiple analyses estimating over his first t...
Available reporting shows federal and local costs for presidential stays at Mar‑a‑Lago have repeatedly been estimated in the millions per trip — watchdog calculations based on earlier GAO-style breakd...
Barack Obama was a longtime member of Trinity United Church of Christ in Chicago (joined 1992) and worshipped with other Protestant congregations during and after his presidency — including St. John’s...
Snopes’ detailed review of Biden’s public calendars and pool reports finds that across his full term (Jan. 20, 2021–Jan. 20, 2025) Biden spent 117 or 118 full days in what the fact‑checker defines as ...
Mar‑a‑Lago functions as a highly visible, privately owned presidential retreat that President Trump has used far more frequently than some predecessors: reporting notes he spent 35 days there in the 2...
Mar‑a‑Lago’s recent security spending is , driven by its status as a privately owned site requiring ad‑hoc federal and local security measures; federal contracts show over in Secret Service perimeter ...
The White House contains an underground complex—including the Presidential Emergency Operations Center (PEOC) and at least one pedestrian tunnel to adjacent executive buildings—that is controlled and ...
President Trump announced in September 2019 that he had invited Taliban leaders to meet at Camp David days before the 18th anniversary of 9/11, then cancelled the planned summit after a Taliban attack...
George W. Bush’s time at his Crawford, Texas ranch during his presidency is reported inconsistently across sources, with the most commonly cited figures being , , and accounts of broader vacation tota...
The US President’s compensation combines a fixed statutory salary of with several designated allowances — typically cited as for expenses, for entertainment, and a non-taxable travel account — produci...
Donald Trump’s pattern of frequent visits to Mar-a-Lago stands out among recent presidents for its , with reporting showing repeated weekend stays and large counts of visits in his first years in offi...
Presidential travel is expensive and poorly transparent: independent analyses put Air Force One operating at roughly $142,000–$200,000 per flight hour and single domestic presidential outings often co...
Available reporting shows wide, inconsistent estimates for the costs when a president uses private properties such as Mar‑a‑Lago versus traditional government facilities: some media and watchdog estim...
Available reporting shows Trump’s golf- and travel‑related taxpayer costs are widely reported as substantially larger than the amounts commonly attributed to Barack Obama, Bill Clinton or George W. Bu...
President Trump’s Mar-a-Lago visits generate that frequently exceed typical costs tied to official presidential retreats; estimates cited in recent reporting put local protection at about and federal ...
Ehud Barak is a former Israeli Prime Minister and long-serving military and political leader whose biography consistently emphasizes his kibbutz upbringing, elite commando background, senior Israel De...
A false 911 call prompted multiple , fire and EMS units to rush to early on January 15, 2024, but crews found no fire and declared an “all clear” minutes later, making the incident an apparent “swatti...