President Barack Obama has been criticized throughout his presidency for the frequency and cost of his multiple vacations.
So far, the Obamas and Vice President Joe Biden have, combined, bilked taxpayers for millions in expenses while they each live it up on multiple three-week getaways per year.
Now, the first family’s summer plans will take the administration’s vacation expense total over $72 million in eight years — and it is all being billed to the taxpayers.
These dream vacations are so long and frequent that in March of last year, Investors.com reported that the first family had “traveled more than any other first family, often with Mrs. Obama’s mother and her friends. By the summer of 2014 the Obamas had taken 31 international trips lasting 119 days. At the same point in his presidency, Ronald Reagan had taken 14 such trips over 73 days.”
The current running tab being charged to taxpayers for the luxurious trips of the president and vice president is about to go up again. Just 5 months after his 3-week stay in Hawaiian paradise, Obama has announced he’s planning time off with the family again — this time back to Martha’s Vineyard this summer.
And it’s going to cost taxpayers a fortune.
According to previous reports from Judicial Watch, past “accommodations provided by Martha’s Vineyard and Nantucket Reservations for the Secret Service detail accompanying the Obama family on their two-week Martha’s Vineyard vacation in August 2014 cost taxpayers a total of $946,435.”
That’s a lot of bar bills and room service for the Secret Service, and the total is made even more outrageous considering the buffoonery the security force has grown notorious for while under Obama’s leadership. Fox News had previously reported that Secret Service agents had a reputation of partying “like rock stars” while in Martha’s Vineyard.
“Local residents say wild parties, fights and late-night carousing involving Secret Service members have become commonplace in recent years at the Vineyard, a favorite getaway for the first family and longtime destination for upper-crust members of the Northeastern political, media and business establishment.”
When talking about Obama’s Christmas vacations, Judicial Watch President Tom Fitton commented on these outrageous bills, saying, “It is easy to see why the Secret Service, reeling from its own scandals, covered up these outrageous expense numbers.”
Keep in mind, that’s just the cost of the security detail following the Obama family.
In March 2015, Judicial Watch also released documents revealing that transportation expenses for the Obama family 2014 vacation to Martha’s Vineyard was $400,666.30.
In previous trips, the Obamas stayed at a luxurious, plush estate in Chilmark. “The seven-bedroom, nine-bath, 8,100-square-foot house, sits on a 10-acre lot and is assessed at more than $12 million. It features 17 rooms in total, expansive water views of Vineyard Sound, an infinity pool and hot tub, and a dual tennis-basketball court,” according to MVTimes.com.
This is the eighth summer vacation the Obamas will be making to the Vineyard on the taxpayer dime. For Obama, “that time has mostly been spent golfing with a rotating cast of high-profile characters, including Bill Clinton, NBA stars Steph Curry and Ray Allen, and comedian Larry David,” Boston.com reports.
On second thought — perhaps Obama being away from the White House is the cheapest option taxpayers can hope for.
— The Horn editorial team
His whole objective has been to destroy America, and I’m not too sure but what he hasn’t accomplished it. I sincerely hope and pray that God will judge him quickly for all the atrocities that he has done.
PSALMS 109:8
AMEN
He has to Croak, before the Lord God of Hosts, Judges him! He has achieved his objective! He will be remembered, For Freakin’ EVER, as the Biggest “Hoaxed Into Power ” Fook-Up in the History of the World. American Taxpayers should have some Recourse available to them! This Fook Boy, would have been Whacked, in any one of the Commie Nations he’s so Fond Of! Imagine Vladimir Putin Pulling stunts, like the Endless Excessive Expensive Vacations!
You’re so right,what do you expect (they want everything for nothing.He take the whole family including hit mother inlaw,we paying for it.Well?
We need to stop all this crazy madness. They should all sit in a corner and lick their wounds with salt.
Wildmann:
He has to Croak, before the Lord God of Hosts, Judges him!
Not necessarily Wildmann, No matter what happens in this Universe, God is still in control and the prayers of the righteous avails much because they are close to His heart. Remember Sapphire and Ananias over in the book of Acts? He is the same God now that He was then……. it is mankind that has changed and caused entropy to prevail. To put it another way the world is destroying itself and it is mankind’s fault; notwithstanding, it is ONLY God that can change the tides of time and as David would say: Restore unto me the JOY of THY Salvation. What I am saying is: We cannot fix entropy because in trying to fix it we cause more entropy, but God is the controller of it all. Sir Issac Newton must have known this to be true as well.
How about we taxpayers write down A few thousand dollars for each of us as paid already on our next taxes. We should get the discount!!
We are now American TaxVictims.
Blame Oprah Winfrey and Jay-Z for him being president! Now she doesn’t give a shit who the next president will be! She’s not visiting either Donald Trump or that killer Hillary! I really don’t care about the color or gender of a president, I really don’t, but I want someone I could be proud to be America’s president. Who ever heard of a president having rappers and talk show hosts’ phone numbers???????? Can’t wait for Mr. Trump to end the laughing at our country and soldiers!!!!!!!
Judge him quickly? Keep poking him in the a.. For all he has done.There is a silver lining it is almost over. Thank God and greyhound he will soon be gone.
He’ll just move down the street and have a handsome retirement package. He will also be a community organizer again which will pay him another salary… Free Money from the taxpayer!…………….. BEAUTY!
YOU HAVENT SEEN NOTHING YET. WAIT TILL HE BILLS THE TAX PAYER 1 BILLION DOLLARS FOR HIS LIBRAYE IN THE SLUMS OF CHICAGO WHERE HE CAME FROM AND BELONGS. SHOOT THE SOB
Why would anyone even want to go there?
Some people will want to see Michelle’s ugly clothes from her time ruling the roost. I have no problem with him taking his mother in law on vacation with them, but why doesn’t he pay her way himself? The girls’ friends need to be paid for by the Obamas, too. Other presidents went home occasionally for vacation, instead of globe trotting. That was a lot less expensive for the tax payers.
Where was this “BANG” that was mentioned in the headline????
The government doesn’t pay for that. He has to raise the bulk of the money through donations and then the DNC will step in with a donation.
Old Georgie boy Soros will probably be paying him the money for his Library for a job well done!
Sorry then why all of the articles from newspapers on how much of the taxpayers money he has used for most of his senseless vacations? The cost of the jet, the secret service his hotel rooms, meals etc, comes out of taxpayer hip national bank
They fly three jets, moving them around like a big shell game, to protect his worthless derriere.
I understand that the cost just to take off and land one of the jets is $300,000, so we can figure from that point.
Then there are the costs of fuel, crew, and for all we know, and God knows what else, since we are talking about Obama. All we know that we don’t pay for is female companionship.
Trump has said that he will look into sealed records, the birth certificate signed with a smiley face, trips to Indonesia when he had no U.S. passport (which means, on some other country’s passport), the apparent lack of a legal name change from Barry Soetero to Barack Hussein Obama (just denying that he was using an alias when he filled out the federal form to run for president could put him in jail), etc.
If he finds what I suspect he will find, Obama won’t be getting anything further from the American TaxVictims.
A person cannot commit treason against any country but his own, so the quickest way to prove that Obama isn’t a U.S. citizen is to charge him with treason and watch how fast he arranges to avoid the death penalty by producing documents showing his real citizenship.
And then the country that has been covering for him for more than eight years by not producing the real birth certificate should be sanctioned, BIG TIME!
I agree
Ground the plane until he gets out of office. If he wants to go somewhere he has to pay for it like anyone else.
You are correct, the POS, POTUS was put in office to destroy our Republic. Thanks communists, soros and acorn. The elections were voter fraud.
Obama is a Muslim and he and she hate America. His wife hates America as she has said many times and she told a meeting of Dem. Women which I attended that she was take her husband to Kenya to see his birth place in a garandmothers hut and then to the Muslim school he attended in Kenya
He made a speech and said we have 57 states. The Karon has 57 verves
IF I’m NOT MISTAKEN, ONE OF HIS MENTORS IS BILLIONAIRE GEORGE SOROS WHOSE GOAL IS TO DESTROY OUR COUNTRY. DO YOU THINK THAT BIRDS OF A FEATHER, FLOCK TOGETHER? THEY BOTH WANT TO CHANGE OUR COUNTRY…..WE’RE ALL PAYING THE PIED PIPER FOR BEING BAMBOOZLED IN 2008 & 2012. THE OBAMACARE MASTER PLANNER, JOHNATHAN GRUBER SAID, AMERICANS ARE ‘STUPID”! I HOPE AND PRAY ‘STU[PID’ DIES OFF BEFORE NOVEMBER 2016!!!!!
IF I’m NOT MISTAKEN, ONE OF HIS MENTORS IS BILLIONAIRE GEORGE SOROS WHOSE GOAL IS TO DESTROY OUR COUNTRY. DO YOU THINK THAT BIRDS OF A FEATHER, FLOCK TOGETHER? THEY BOTH WANT TO CHANGE OUR COUNTRY…..WE’RE ALL PAYING THE PIED PIPER FOR BEING BAMBOOZLED IN 2008 & 2012. THE OBAMACARE MASTER PLANNER, JOHNATHAN GRUBER SAID, AMERICANS ARE ‘STUPID”! I HOPE AND PRAY ‘STU[PID’ DIES OFF BEFORE NOVEMBER 2016!!!!!
There is only one thing that I dislike about the judgement of our almighty father. And that is that we are not there to see it. If Obama and his greedy wife were turned into pillars of salt I would be the first to go and view the judgement and turn the site into a national monument.
“Fret not because of the wicked for they shall soon be cut down like the grass and whither as the green herb”
~ Psalm 37:1 ~
His day will come all too soon for him and then his eternity in the pit will begin and never end.
Let him have his fun, he is just like any of the unsaved wicked upon the face of the whole earth.
We who are the Lord’s have an everlasting kingdom to come filled with a fullness of joy, peace, love and many things not known in this life that will be everlasting and beyond our comprehension in this life.
We have it ALL in Christ….Praise be to His name!
Come Lord Jesus
Thank God, It won’t be long Friends……………..Maybe someday they will have to pay the American people back some of that money!!!!!! I wonder what they have planned for next year……………..Maybe go back to the South Side of Chicago!!!!!! You think???????
Amen❤️
A polite geography lesson for THE HORN writers. Martha’s Vineyard is here in the COMMONWEALTH of MASSACHUSETTS. It has been for nearly 400 years now.
No trips to visit a homeless shelter or VA hospital.
It’s beneath him to do so
He hates America and what it stood for
Or even a disaster site due to the weather or a bombing. Only what the n……r wants
Main Street, “polite geography lesson”. As disgraceful as I find the current First Family, I reread the Horn article, and failed to find where you are discovering that the writers don’t know the location of Martha’s Vineyard. I know Obozos don’t know their way to a VA hospital or Homeless shelter. The complete disdain for America was recently demonstrated by a Memorial Day week picture of the POTUS commiserating with the Japanese over our “terrible” choice to save the lives of thousands of veterans, as well as Japanese, by bringing the Second World War to a rapid conclusion.
@Don Old Guy: About an hour or more ago, the article stated “Martha’s Vineyard in Connecticut”. Shortly after I pointed out that geographical error, it as corrected.
I appreciate the geography lesson Main Street, but that still does not excuse Obama’s extravagant abuse of taxpayer money. It matters not if it is a $1,000,000.00 vacation at Martha’s Vineyard or a $500.00 clawhammer from Sears, it is still a bad ripoff and he has had WAAAY too many vacations.
Maybe we’ll get lucky and someone will blow his fricken head off on one of then golf courses !!
Bet the Obamas sold their CHICAGO HOME (if it was actually ever owned by them) so they could spend vacations on the taxpayers expense. The people’s money spent for PLEASURE trips was more than 10 average families earned in 10 years. Now BO wants an increase in his pension after he leaves the White House . I think they may be thieves of the highest sort.
Nobody said it wasn’t. You reading comprehension and retention, could use some serious work!
@ Mike Hawk: Why so rude? When the article first came out at about 10:AM it said Martha’s Vineyard CT. I commented on it and the editors corrected it. Your commenting without considering the facts shows that YOU could use some education.
Don’t sweat it Main Street, the Old Guy is probably just having a senior moment, lol.
Sorry, I meant that in reference to Mike Hawk, not OLD GUY.
@Dawg: Mike was a little too quick to criticize. The way of the world these days.
@Main Street:
Yeah, shotgun mouth overrides BB brain…… Fececiously speaking, of course, lol
Martha’s Vineyard and Nantucket used to be mostly poor and working class folks up until 30 years ago. Some farms operated there. Then the self-proclaimed elitists from Metro NYC and Boston decided that it was their May to September playground. Just like cities like , NYC, San Francisco and here in Boston, when so called progressives move in, the working class and poor get priced out. Hypocrites.
As of December 2014, Obama had taken 161 vacation days. At the same point in their second terms George W. Bush had taken 405, Bill Clinton had taken 174 and Ronald Reagan had 390.
Whenever I see a story ending “-the Horn News Editorial Staff” I just know it’s only written to stir the pot — and can’t wait to read the ridiculous comments that follow!
Let me be the first to point out the “ridiculous” notion, as a comment, that Bush and Reagan “vacationed” in homes that they actually paid for, on pieces of property they actually owned. In fairness, I would also speculate that the incredible cost to set up communications and security for the Carter, Snake River vacation, probably held the record for its time, in costs for a single vacation. I knew one of the pilots who lived in the “leaky bunkhouse” on the end of the runway on the Johnson Ranch, to provide immediate air service to the First Family. Probably not too expensive.
Like your comment?
They “vacationed” to their homes mostly, such as the Bush ranch in Texas… Not spending nearly 75 million in 8 years. The point of the article went over your head. But you’re a liberal, so I’m really not surprised! Now go back to your Clinton/Obama/Sanders blow up dolls in your moms basement.
Bush either went to his ranch in Texas or to Camp David. This man never goes to his home in Chicago and as far as his Library, the American tax payer does not pay for that – Maybe Oprah will have a foundation set up for donations and the clintons will donated lavishly so that he will pardon her after the indictment!!!
Why are there no limits to the spending? I really can’t understand someone (especially the President) taking so many and such lavish trips knowing what our budget looks like and knowing that many suffering Americans are footing his foolishness. This makes me very angry and sad at the whole process. Our elected government officials are not protecting our rights nor are they protecting how “the money we earn” is spent. I personally as sick of my hard earned money footing bills that the majority do not agree with!
THERE IS NO LIMIT TO WHAT A PRESIDENT CAN SPEND ON HIMSELF. I HAVE TO SAY THAT THIS WHOLE GOVERNMENT IS SO CORRUPT AND I CANNOT BELIEVE WE HAVE GONE 8 YRS WITH THIS PRESIDENT AND WE HAVEN’T HAD A REVOLUTION. THIS MAKES ME BELIEVE THAT THE AMERICAN PEOPLE ARE REALLY STUPID. THEY JUST GET LOST IN THEIR OWN LITTLE LIVES AND THEY CAN’T BE BOTHERED OR ELSE THEY ARE JUST TO STUPID AND DON’T PAY ATTENTION TO WHAT WASHINGTON IS DOING. EVERYONE IN WASHINGTON IS SPENDING OUR MONEY ON ANYTHING THEY WANT. DOESN’T ANYONE OUT THERE WONDER WHY THEY ALL COME OUT AS MILLIONAIRES. I CAN ONLY PRAY THAT DONALD TRUMP WILL SHAKE THINGS UP AND GET RID OF ALL THE EVIL POLITICIANS. POLITICIANS ARE ONLY IN THERE TO SEE HOW MUCH THEY CAN GET FOR THEMSELVES.
This clown must be stopped from he and his families free loading on the American dime – he’s done nothing to earn his dinner let along million dollar vacations. Enough is enough he should be impeached and thrown out of office without a security detail and then see how quickly he changes his position on the police.
I throughly agree. He should not be allowed to take this vacation. What has he done to deserve it. TELL ME? IS THERE ANYONE IN OUR CORRUPT GOVERNMENT TO STOP HIM SPENDING THIS MUCH MONEY?
Please have our government come forward and cut back the expense of this vacation. Also, additional family members (not the daughters) but friends to go, that should be paid by the Obama’s , that makes sense don’t you think?
We have families like ours we only live on Social Security and cannot get by without family help, considering my husband is disabled and I had to quit my job to take care of him.
Americans need help after 8 years of this President spending so much money where not necessary. I pray every night that 2017 ???????? our next President will not be so greedy and self centered to do this to us. Please help us dear God. ????????????????????????????????. ????. ????
A million bucks or so to get him out of the White House for three weeks?
THAT’S CHEAP.
Let the POS take a seven month vacation, give him all the money he wants, JUST GET HIM THE HELL OUT OF THE WHITE HOUSE !!!
we struggle just to make ends meat and he lives it up on our hard work hope he chokes on all that high dollar food he eats on us. or gets food poisoning and croaks. we have paid him and his family for 8 years just to see him try to destroy our country for his musslim friends
1st of all, you got to have balls to impeach someone, but nobody does……enough said.
We know Obama is an egotistical a hole. Hope he enjoys his final summer vacation as president of THE GREATEST COUNTRY on earth !!! Good ridence you pompous ass !!!
Well, at least we can say one thing: “I lived in the time of the worst President of the United States, a man who arrogantly thought he was smarter than everyone because they were stupid enough to feel guilty about something they had nothing to do with and could only make worse with “political correctness,” the suicide doctrine of liberalism.
Google “Two Minute Conservative” for more.
I already thought I could say that, having lived through Carter and Clinton, but they were only the warm up band….
He is the worst President this country has ever seen. But that is not surprising since he thinks he is a King. They spend money like they have a money tree to go pick more for the trip they take. Michelle is as bad as he is with her expensive Hotel suites and meals. I just hope when they are gone we will be able to get the country back to what it once was. Unfortunately if Hillary is elected we will never be the country we once were. She is as bad if not worse than he is. I fear or my children and grandchildren when they totally destroy our once wonderful country.
Julia L.
I’ll bet the residents of Martha’s Vineyard are just thrilled to hear the WH crowd are coming again to disrupt their lives at their expense. At least we are winding down the all-expense paid 8-year vacation of this family (and friends, of course). Money flushed down the toilet, I think……..
Oh, Yes. I believe he has spent a lot of money on family vacations. When he went to Israel, we were told he rented the whole King David Hotel for all the people he brought with him. That was billions of dollars and we were shocked. The man needs to pay back all the money he has used on his trips, except for the standard amounts he is entitled to. Then, for treason, he needs to spend at least 30 years in Guantanamo along with Eric Holder and Hillary Clinton. What a shame!!!!
STOP PAYING TAXES YOU SLAVES. IRS MEANS ILLEGALLY REGULATING SLAVERY. THE IRS IS ILLEGAL AND WHAT THEY DO IS ILLEGAL. DO YOU KNOW THE SUPREME COURT THE COURT OF MORONS SAYS YOUR BULL SHIT GOVERNMENT DOES NOT HAVE TO PAY YOU YOUR SOCIAL SECURITY THAT YOU HAVE PAYED IN FOR FIFTY YEARS. IN AMERICA THE SCUM GET EVERYTHING AND THE GOOD PEOPLE GET SCREWED. STOP BEING A CANDY ASS. ITS TIME TO MAKE THE POLITICIONS PAY. ESPECIALLY ALL THE OBAMA ASS KISSERS!!! WE ARE COMING TO GET YOU SCUMBAGS!! YOU PEOPLE NEED TO WAKE THE HELL UP DAMMIT!!!!!!!
Joe, good Job I like the way you think.
Yep. We are, indeed, paying for our own demise. If everybody told the IRS to shove it, what could they do? The problem is that people are afraid of losing everything they ever worked for due to government confiscation.
Some ‘free’ country, huh?
Now, get to work, the King wants to go on vacation.
How many homeless people and Food Banks could have been served with that amount of money. I guarantee you if the money and lush benefits weren’t there for the Obamas they wouldn’t be in the White House and this country would be in a much be state than it is now. Obama has a long awaited eternal vacation in hell coming.
AS an illegal POTUS by the constitution he should be removed from office today and not brought back from this trip.
He needs to leave office without a pension, no secret service, healthcare or anything else he thinks he is entitled to. Needs to put back monies they have stolen from we the people! One eight year party on the tax payers dime! This is sick and GREED GREED ane more GREED! There cup is never full! I rest my case!!!
Clinton gave back what they took from the WH so why not OBO
I did not know this..
Congress has the power of the purse. Can they refuse to pay these bills? Or disapprove the trip in the first place? Or do nothing now and take allotments out of his post-presidency checks until all the vacation expenses are paid for? Wouldn’t that be fun? Where’s Ryan when you need him?
I like your statement Take money from his salary.
How are the funds for these vacations appropriated? Can’t someone in Congress just learn to say no?
Why are the American people paying for any President’s Vacation expenses? Period.
The POTUS is supposed to be WORKING for the people and they get paid a salary to do it. How many of you/us get unlimited paid vacations with all expenses paid at the expense of our employers? I don’t know of any, other than the vacation pay itself, which is a part of our salaries.
We need to rewrite the rules so that our President pay for their own recreational expenses. And while we are at it, we need to get rid of using delegates for our elections. We can sit at our computers and see our votes coming in over the internet in real time. Back in the day, when delegates were elected to represent the ‘voice’ of the people, it made sense, since it would not have been practical for the populace to have to travel to the polls on horseback. Those days are over.
Keep in mind, my fellow Americans, the Government can only operate by the consent of the people. We need to quit complying. Obama should be billed for every dime he has squandered from the taxpayer trough that he has used to entertain himself, his family, and friends with. It is absurd that our infrastructure is falling apart, our vets are not getting the care that they need, and on down the line, yet Obama and his ilk can travel like Kings on the public dime. No wonder people are pissed.
We The People pay the IRS and after that……….. THE IRS= THEIRS! and after that CONgress can spend it.
57Girl:
I must clarify that my last reply is to this same person and please keep in mind that I am not at all being disrespectful to 57girl. I do agree with every heartfelt word you say and just know that i am convinced that you are a true patriot who loves her Country and my heart is blessed with folks like yourself.
The thing that bothers me most about our existing government is that our Military has been stripped to the bare bones. They are having to get parts from the junk yard to make repairs on the aircraft. and the ultimate insult is that Hardee’s now feels it necessary to run a fund drive to support them! i am not cutting Hardee’s, I am proud of them, but it is shameful that We The People feel like we have to make a welfare object out of our Military to maintain the Freedom that we enjoy!
I believe we need to get rid of the person or persons who is actually running the country. But I guess nothing will be done until more bad things will happen to the americans. We The People have allowed a man to represent our country that is not even a citizen of this country. He should have never been allowed to run as President and We The People allowed it all. I am retired on social security and I now find out that I will not be receiving any more “cost of living” raises because our country just don’t have the money for that expense. The cost of everything will eventually be more than I can afford to live on. And yet our President is planning a one million dollar vacation. I truly believe there is something wrong with this situation. Our national debt is higher than it has ever been, gosh I wonder why. Surely it’s not because our President is spending it on vacation, while the seniors of this country run out of money before the next check arrives. Oh, and shall I mention all the things the “illegals” are receiving: money, food stamps, a home, and if they are old enough–my social security raises.
I’m sorry if I sound angry, but truthfully I am very angry and I believe something should be done. Not in words either.
I agree with the Obamas that they need a vacation. Stay gone from Washington, D.C. until November!! Puhleeese, Mr. Obama. Get gone and don’t come back. And certainly let that door hit you on the behind on your way out.
The best way to pay Obama back is not to buy any books he may write , don’t invite him to give lectures and if there are any, no one should show up-I am sure he thinks he will make a ton of money on all of the above-The mention of his name leaves me feeling ill-HE WILL go down as the worse president in our history for sure-I cant think of anything good he has done for our America-I still believe his birth certificate was forged and that he was not born in the USA-It took way too long for those documents to show up-Trump is our only hope-lets hope its not too late to put America on the right track again(I really believe he loves this country)-It will take sacrifice and good organization to give us back the wonderful way of life our forefathers fought so hard to give us and Obama fought so hard to destroy
Can’t understand how educated, sensible people elected Obama in the first place, much less a second term. No wonder Hillary thinks she can win. Please folks, don’t fall for the lies and vote tampering that she represents !
The link below shows how Obama wins elections. He won both presidential elections by 51/49. It’s also how he won his seat in the Senate. https://youtu.be/XyS01Twlcbc
he needs to out with a bang alright, the one of the jail door slamming in his face. Frikin’ communist traitor!
This jerk doesn’t know his place
Obama “PLANS”.. on getting a third of a billion extra dollars above and beyond the cost of his Library.. to use as he sees fit, deposited by donators that never have to be exposed.
3-4 mill for a house is nothing, and one might wonder if, like the Clintons, Obama will charge the Secret Service the entire mortgage payment amount, for staying outback in the pool house.
If, and consider it deeply, you believe Obama is actually paying any hard earned money for the house, think again as Presidents now get 30+ million a year for every year in office into that tax free slush fund they call a library foundation.
Hopefully, Trump will get the tax rules changed and donators will not donate, or risk exposure having been in cronyism.
Break my heart if Obama had to settle for 300K for a hours speech.. if he could get any after Trump has the IRS quit ignoring all the taxation avoidance shams Politicians depend on.
Hopefully he will be struck by a golf ball in the temple or by a bolt of God’s lightning. When he goes to Hawaii, they go thru and cut all the coconuts off the trees so one won’t fall and hit him. Then he screams about the hoax on global warming. If he truly believe it existed, he wouldn’t travel as he does. HYPOCRITE MUSLIM
May the door hit you where the good Lord split you POTUS. I know, send him and his spoiled brat family to Egypt and put them on a commercial airplane. Now if the damn thing would just blow up…
What worries me, is although we will all be well rid of him, Hillary consistently praises him and everything he has done and or not done. She supports Obama. Do we really want more of this. It will be like Obama never left.
The Entitlement Victim Phony President. All he has done is suck of this nation for his own benefit while deliberately running her down to our enemies and flipping off our allies, and destroying this once great nation from the inside.
When i was a young lad there were some very Highly Regarded Individuals that were Assassinated ( though that may be debatable ) they were JFK RK and MLK not that ostupid deserves to be mentioned in the same sentence as they I still cant figure out WHY there isn’t a SNIPER Bullet with obamas Name ON IT!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!! ……..
Barack Obama has lived like a king and governed like a king. The American people will be paying the expenses of his wasteful administration long after he has left office.
If Trump is able to unseal SOB’s (Soetero-Obama-Barack) records, and can then prove that he was never the president, SOB’s Secret Service protection will be pulled.
And then, no telling what might happen.
Company I work for doesn’t pay for my vacations. President and all members of congress should pay for their own vacations as well!!!!
“2014 vacation to Martha’s Vineyard was $400,-666-.30.”
Appropriate.
Reread the article. That $400,666.30 was just for the flight to and from, not where they stayed or the food they ate or the secret service expenses!
The president is nothing more than an elected PUBLIC SERVANT. He is not our boss. We are his. Congress appropriates the money, so why isn’t every president given an expense budget that they have to live with. I believe 50,000 per year would be more than adequate for vacations. Anything over that comes out of his own pocket. How many of us would spend that on a vacation? This needs to apply to every senator and congress person as well in terms of spending OUR money on BS programs. Enough is enough. Nobody forced them, they CHOSE to be elected.
Hey Tarheel, I’m a Tarheel too. I live in Avery County. Very thought provoking post by the way, Thanks!
Just another freeloader costing the taxpayer money, typical people
All he is entitled to is a Bread & Water Vacation
“All he is entitled to is a Bread & Water Vacation … ” in a cell shared with Michelle (or whatever her/his/its name is).
Come to think about it, I very much would like to see him go out with a BANG
Ha!
I don’t suppose that the crew on Air Force One has parachutes?
If you’re a government employee you can commit crimes’ and get away with it. I can’t even drive with a blown out taillight without getting a ticket. Most government employee are exempt from any laws’and can’t be tried. The government is going back to what it was when England ruled it here. In 1776 the government was made up of criminals, and it hasn’t change today.
In the photo, it appears that Obama is eating “rainbow” ice cream or similar. Is there a message here?
Too bad that green ice cream isn’t some form of Kenyan-specific Kryptonite!
FACT CHECK re presidential vacation time comparison: Last December, CBS News reported that the number of vacation days President Obama has taken since the beginning of his presidency stood at 161 days.
However his predecessor, two-term President George W. Bush, took 879 days of vacation, including 77 trips to his Texas ranch according to a report by The Washington Post.
According to The Washington Post, “No modern president took less vacation than Jimmy Carter (79 days), while Ronald Reagan spent 335 days at his beloved California ranch.”