President Barack Obama is preparing to soak up the sun and fun during his annual Hawaii holiday vacation — a trip that’s going to cost taxpayers millions.
The White House says Obama will hold his traditional year-end news conference on Friday afternoon. Then the president will depart for San Bernardino, California, where he plans to meet with families of the 14 victims of the recent mass shooting.
The California stop will be Obama’s last before he travels to Hawaii to spend Christmas and New Year’s with his family. Obama has vacationed in Hawaii every year since taking office.
According to reports, this year’s trip to Hawaii will cost taxpayers an estimated $3.7 million, which, believe it or not, is cheaper than some previous trips. According to estimates from Judicial Watch, the Obama 2012 Christmas vacation cost taxpayers nearly $4.1 million.
If these two years are applied as the average range for these luxurious trips, that means the Obamas have, in total, billed U.S. taxpayers around $30 million during seven years in office on Hawaii trips alone.
The Associated Press contributed to this article
What about the trips Mrs. Obama makes with her children? When she took her kids to Mexico, a security team had to accompany them, taking an entire floor in the hotels to be on guard?
I just did some research with our General Accounting Office. According to the GAO, the Obamas have spent taxpayer dollars to the tune of $62, 446, 390. on vacations and junkets (official travel not included). Sixty-two million plus and this doesn’t include his current vacation to Hawaii which will be approximately $3 mil more.. Now we’re in the neighborhood of $65 million plus and Obama still has 398 days left in office until Friday, January 20, 2017.
MAKES YOU SICK, DOESN’T IT? HE’S NOT WORTH IT NOR IS HIS FAMILY WORTH US PAYING OUT ALL THAT MONEY! WHEN IS IT GOING TO END? WHEN HE GETS OUT OF OFFICE, (IF HE EVER DOES), DEPENDING WHO THE NEXT PRESIDENT WILL BE, HOPEFULLY TRUMP OR CRUZ!!!
When Trump becomes president, I don’t think he will charge us for his vacations since he’s financing his own presidential campaign. just a thought and hope, actually.
Look we should not pay for any Any politicians vacation they don’t pay for ours and they rob us blind I have not been on a vacation in 4 yrs. and it wasn’t a real vacation had to help my husbands Mother after cancer surgery, they get paid they can pay for their own vacation and they also need to take a pay cut like everyone else had to, thanks to them obama is a leach, he has not earned a dollar and no way do I want cuz in office, just like ryan should have never ever been made house speaker, I will vote for trump, because he is the best of the others been investigating all like Santorum but he don’t have a chance, and the women know way at all would I vote for either one both are despicable.
This Lady has her say but seems to me she was one who voted for obummer twice !!!!!!!
So many Americans can’t afford a trip across their own state for vacation, but yet they and the rest of us must pay for Obama and family to have a all paid vacation? Who’s doing his vacation booking? I’m sure they can come up with better cost to tax payers. I could take 20 family’s there for less….# Trump/Cruz 2016
It will never end. He will get taxpayer money for the rest of his life in the form of staff, office space and travel. That is over and above his lifetime pension and health benefits!
actually to me its worth the money just to get him out of the white house for a couple of weeks
CAROL ,YOU NINCOMPUPE ! GETTING OBUMER OUT OF THE WHITEHOUSE FOR A COUPLE OF WEEKS COSTS A LOT MORE THAN IF THE USELESS BASTARD STAYED IN THE WHITEHOUSE ,WHILE HIS LAZY USELESS ASS TRAVELS ALL OVER THE WORLD COSTS THE TAXPAYERS A FORTUNE ,THE USELESS MUSLIM SHOULD PAY BACK ALL THE MONEY HE SQANDERS ,,WHAT NEEDS TO HAPPEN IS “THROW HIS USELESS LAZY ASS OUT OF THE WHITEHOUSE ,AND AMERICA WOULD BE A WHOLE LOT BETTER OFF ,SHIP HIM TO KENIA WHERE HE BELONGS ,EVEN THEY DONT WANT HIM THERE EITHER ,HE WOULD BE A SORE TO ANY COUNTRY ,HE IS TOTALY USELESS ,HE IS A BURDEN TO US AND UNFIT TO RUN AN OUTHOUSE ,
It won’t end he & fam has secret service for life.
I have requested information through the Freedom of Information Act (FOIA) concerning the Amount of Taxpayers money that was spent on so called “Official Travel ” where part of his family including his wife Michelle and his children accompanied Hussein Obama , did the taxpayers pay for their travel , their gifts that they bought for themselves , side trips to various attractions in these countries , where the Secret Service had to accompany them , all paid for by the American Taxpayers . Your eye opening research was well appreciated by myself and my Watch Dog Group , about the outright abuse by this President Obama . We also have pending lawsuits ready to be Filed as soon as The Obamas leave office on January 20th , 2017 . The lists include people like Eric Holder , Ben Rhodes Obamas Top Aid , Uma Abedin, Both Press Secretarys, General Patreous , James Clapper , General Dempsey , Panetta former Secretary of Defense , Hillary Clinton , Cheryl Mills top aid to Hillary Clinton , this is just a short list of many, who will be sued by” We The People” who pay the taxes and salaries of these Federal Employees , for treason under Article 3 Section 3 of the US Constitution.
EXCELLENT WE the PEOPLE, yes sew there butts off ,,,,,why is they think we owe them everything including vacations??
You people must be kidding; you are so limited in your thinking; think about the Congress and the Senate; they have thwarted Obama every step of the way; by “not giving Obama what he asks for” as the Senate leader told everyone when Obama was first elected. (I am sure an attorney can make a case for committing treason against WE THE People by both houses) You resent his vacation; how about W. Bush he was always on vacation; also, please note, (you can Google this, please check it out) Bush was a war profiteer to the tune of 15 or, 16 Billion dollars while he was President of the United States. Where were all of you then; no one complained. But you resent Obama, one of the most intelligent, gentlemen who has held the office of President. Obama who uses the power of negotiation to avert a world war; by the way, do you know that he stopped taking a salary several years ago. We The People have to stop being negative and pay attention to actual facts, especially when we vote; Obama deserves a lot of credit for maintaining his composure with both houses acting like children. Imagine what he would have accomplished with the support of the Congress and the Senate. This is 2015, Wake up America, instead of constantly knocking your President, stand up and be counted!
This lawsuit shows how hateful the the organization, we the people is. President Obama has accomplished a lot despite the hate of the Republicans. Anyone voting for Trump or Cruz simply has no brains.
You show your stripes quickly,,,,,,,,,,,libber,,,,,,,,,,
Wow…you must be on some strong stuff to be that delusional where this greedy, lazy career politician is concerned.
At least Bush gave we seniors a COLA on OUR hard earned Social Security. Obama and his Drag Queen(sic)wife aren’t worth the powder, or bullet to eliminate them. By the way, bush and his wife usually vacationed at THEIR ranch in Crawford Texas, or Camp David.
AMEN!
what drug are you on..it must be very powerful
INGA ,YOU ARE A TOTAL IDIOT ,WHAT HOLE HAVE YOU BEEN HIDING IN THE LAST SEVEN YEARS ,YOU BOZO BRAIN MORON
Would not it be much less expensive to put him in a box and ship him UPS?
ummmm inna box , you mean coffin,,,,,,,,,,
Hey, think about this. Obama deserves high priced vacations. Why you ask? He puts in uncountable hour’s in overtime to make himself the pompous ass he is and thinking of ways to destroy the country and waste money. Example, 43million for a gas station in the middle east. I wonder how many hundreds of years and how many gallons of gas has to be pumped to pay back on that deal?
I remember when the POTUS took his vacation at Camp David for 2 weeks. Whoever gave the right to the POTUS to take a vacation and have it billed to the taxpayer. He is stopping in Calif, which is one his way to Hawaii, so that part of the trip is not counted as part of his vacation cost. He is a thief and liar and should be IMPEACHED immediately.
I wonder when an American Citizen last had a vacation since most Americans have to work 2 jobs just to pay their medical care and taxes Obama keeps increasing… Obama is unbelievable as a leader without a plan, except to dismantle America’s economy !
That’s why he is the PARASITE-IN-CHIEF
DKK, YOU ARE TOO KIND TO THE PARASITE ,YOU NEED A GIANT SHOE TO SQUASH THAT PARASITE ,DO THEY MAKE SOES THAT LARGE ? I HOPE THEY DO,
Obama is a creep. It’s about rubbing it in our faces. Worst president in history. Maybe with some tax payer luck he’ll have to swim to Hawaii.
BUSTER ,THAT IS WISHFULL THINKING ,IT WOULD BE TOO GOOD TO BE TRUE ,I AGREE WITH YOU , THERE IS HOPE
They are soaking us for every vacation they can find to take before they are out of the White House and have to pay for vacations themselves. Look for her and the girls to take another overseas vacation this summer. Plus obama’s golf trips, etc.
let the useless Obama bunch pay for it out of their own pockets ,they have not earned anything for the taxpayers to foot their bills ,all they do is use the government and do nothing to earn it ,the useless bunch does not deserve to be taken care of by the taxpayers
OBUMMERS are wasting more of our hard earned money ,what a terrible waste to pay for their uselessness
3.07 Million dollars for a vacation for the President of our Nation – – – and there are those going to bed with little or nothing to eat – then there’s the homeless – then there are there are our wounded veterans whom to this day still have not received the attention they deserve and need – more than the President and his family need that vacation – OBAMA should be ashamed of himself, of course he’s not – but then of course he is the President.
Wouldn’t it be more accurate to call him dictator not president ?
You got it! Wish more people could see what you see.
no I did not already have said that bozos
The article said this was just for their Hawaii trips alone.
I could never figure out how he even got elected for a second term! It’s SHAMEFUL to spend so much of our money on “fun” time when he can’t even lead the country well!
Moochell and the Obama family including her mother have cost the US Taxpayers MILLIONS of dollars during Obama’s two terms and all she has accomplished is to travel the world with her Mother and kids and go on fantastic vacations and shopping trips! She has even paid her Mom and kids as US Employees so they not only traveled on the taxpayers dime, but also got paid so they had some ‘walking around’ money. These people will go down in history as the most corrupt administration in history and hopefully will face justice for all the laws they have broken over these last years. Maybe we will be able to finally discover what if any schools Obama really attended and his grades as well as if he is even a US Citizen! He did represent himself as a Foreign Student when he was in collage.
I have worked all my life as a nurse, serving and helping others and now am having trouble getting food on my table. The government takes my money every month from my Social security, and he can spend my money for a vacation in Hawaii! *! $#/%/! Thanks
Obama
Lets let him take his vacation without security. He doesn’t deserve to have security for he is not securing the USA
His annual escape from Christian Christmas Celebrations.
I will be glad when this turkey is out of office.
He is one of the worst things to ever happen to the United States of America.
If you think Obama is bad wait till you get Hillary< that bitch will rob us more. The Reps. are not better than the dems. look at this last spending bill , Bama got what he wanted and Ryan is no better than the other stud. We have lost our country to crooks. Giving it all away to foreigners. May God help us .
We could send Ryan with him, so they could conjure up other ideas on how to screw us.
We can thank the people that voted for him 5 or 6 times in the same day, where the total votes where more than the total voters in that state.
To put it as I see it, they are living like royalty and the taxpayers are getting screwed! The obama’s are living “high on the Hog! !
He doesn’t believe in Christmas and America and should have been impeached a long time ago, But when you have spineless idiots in dc what more can you expect and we the tax payers get to fund this golfing trip he will be on soaking up the sun and spending our money what a waste of money
He should had been impeached years ago, but the RINOS are sitting on their easy chairs, letting him soak every penny out of us that he can…I HOPE THIS MAN & WIFE DIE OF DISASTEROUS NIGHTMARES !! Why don’t they go to the ME with a 1-way ticket????
Good idea. Lat them go as excess baggage.
This is why they are afraid of TRUMP getting to be the POTUS for he will be investigating all of this of all the politicians and then make them reimburse the government. This will help to get the money together for the WALL and maybe Obo should be on the other side of it permanently.
wondering who is going along with the O’bonghole first family? maybe his secret White House BOYFRIEND?
The “beatings” from B.O. continue!!
Only 398 days more of this regime until the vermin leave the White House on Friday, January 20, 2017. You can add more vacations on the taxpayers backs on top of the $65 million plus the Obamas have already spent according to the GAO-Government Accounting Office. I pulled it up today and that is the price we’ve paid so far in this regime.
Can we sue the Obloomers for embezzlement?
It makes me think 0f the Latch Key Babies who are drawing far below the poverty line from social security. My Wife happens to be one of them. Even though She paid into the system,
and because she was born to soon and is living to long She is forced to get along with a
little over $ 600.00 a month. Can anyone reading these lines live on $600.00 a month?
I didn’t think so.
Shame on the (D) people that voted for him to be our President! In the history of the United States, he’s the ONLY President that has left the oval office for vacation during Christmas! All the other Presidents were respectful enough to let their staff stay home and enjoy Christmas with their families. The Obama’s don’t celebrate Christmas! What does that tell you America?!
Of course not. Muslims do not celebrate Christmas.
Is it in the Constitution or his right as the President to go on vacations, play golf and do all those leisurely or extra-curricular things with taxpayer monies?Like everybody else who works, why shouldn’t those trips, vacations and activities be his responsibility? This doesn’t even include his wife or daughter’s engagements…..must be nice!
Obama’s spending is like stealing money from the citizens of the country! who in the world does he think he is? He has not portrayed any semblance of sensitivity to anyone or anything , he can’t, he doesn’t know how, he’s a sissy in men’s clothing!
This pro-Islamist arrogant sob should have been removed from office a long time ago for treason.
Congress could use a little testosterone injection to get the process underway.
A lot of testosterone would be required to get the process underway. Starting with Ryan and O’Connell.
Why doesn’t the lying con-artist, imposer President Hussein Obama go back to his Muslim school in Indonesia
where he was indoctrinated as a child instead of just to Hawaii? He needs a golf course to get away from his
“job” where he has never done one thing in concert with the legislature. All the garbage and manure he shoves
down our throats was done by his “executive orders” without any input from citizens or legislatures. Disgusting!!!
He thinks he is the king of America and Moochelle is the queen. They along with Members of the Clinton Crime Family should have been put behind bars years ago.
So true
You have it reversed. Moochele is the king and OBloomers is the Queen.
Hey, now!
Shipping in thousands of Muslim refugees to America despite the citizens’ outrage is tough work!
ME AND MY WIFE HAVE BEEN SAYING FOR YEARS ,,HES A MUSLIM AND WHEN HE LEAVES OFFICE WE ARE ALL GOING TO SEE THE TRUTH…. MARK OUR WORDS
Whatever happened to Camp David? Wasn’t that supposed to be for vacations while the President was in office? He can’t handle 4 (8) years of his life a few miles from the oval office?
And we have Veterans who sleep under bridges with their families and many other VETS who can’t affords homes and food and are hanging on by a thread. In my opinion, VETs should be treated like royalty for the sacrifice they make. I don’t have any family members or friends who are VETS, but I hate seeing money being spent so extravagantly while these people suffer and do without. There are many others besides VETs who are doing without as well. $30 million dollars could go a long way to take care of them.
ABSOLUTELY!!!!!!!!!!!!
I am a vet and wish I could get the other vets together to go to DC when he comes back from vacation and run him out of the country or else hang him for treason.
I think he wants to make sure he is the worst president in History so that if Hillary gets in she will only be the second worst. I never know that community organizers could make so much money especially when they don’t have a brain in their head. I think he is leading the list for most useless person on the planet.
This is utterly sickening to me. So much good for others could be done, for the
homeless, the wonderful veterans etc. He once again is in our pockets for another
getaway as he does not believe in Christmas or is he Christian. This is totally
absurd. Every day it seems he is doing whatever he can on his watch before it is
over.If he were a man he would stay put and donate money to a good cause.
What about the debt? No concern of his or other things that he should be addressing.
Horrible person and family.
Obama is laughing at all the fools who voted him in. I just wonder how he would feel if it was his wife/child/family member that was shot up and killed. Anyone that supports him needs to sit back and think…what if that was their family.
Obama wants our country to fall apart. World War III will be here sooner than you think. Trump will straighten out Obama’s mess, he is a family man and knows how to handle money. Trump won’t take any shit from the idiots.
Paul Ryan is another joke, I saw the writing on the wall with him. They all need to be fired and start all over. Hilary needs to go to jail and Obama needs to go back where he came from.
First, impeach the Mr. Obama. Second elect Mr. Trump. To bad Sara isn’t still available. Third get congress to pass legislation directing congressmen to have no more
special treatment than an ordinary American citizen (LOL). Pass legislation to curtail Presidential personal spending of taxpayer
monies. Consider Mr. Cruz or Sara Palin for Vice President Don.
What about the global warming, firing up air force one and how many escort planes.
You folks should slow down and think a little ways down the road. Obama will go down in history as the greatest president we ever had. Why? Not because he is half black & white, Muslim, caused tremendous damage to the country and everything he touches.
The greatest accomplishment is, here it comes, He coned himself into the white house as the only foreigner, and Kenyan to do it.
Then when this is proven he sould be impeached and put into jail for treason.
Taxes,wish i had to pay a million dollars in taxes
President Obama takes a vacation to Hawaii, the State of his birth, once a year at a cost of just under 4 million dollars. During President Bush’s eight years in office he went to his ranch in Texas, the State of his birth, on an average of every 45 days(8 times a year) at a cost of approximately 2 million dollars for each trip! Any fair minded person would not begrudge a President for taking one vacation a year to his Home State. As for President Bush’s 8 trips a year to his Texas ranch, I’ll let other people draw their own conclusions about the appropriateness of that.
Obama does not favor the USA, he does not represent the USA or the Americans, his heart is with radical Islam and that disqualifies as President, who cares if he was born in Malaysia or Indonesia, he is at heart a foreigner.
He does not deserve the Borbonic treatment he dispenses for himself from the moneys we all to sweat to earn.
I think that oboma should be impeached. He is not doing anything about isis because he is happy that they are killing all these people and his wish has come true. This is what he has always wanted to happen to America. Who, and when is someone going to see that he has his head in the sand. Isn’t there someone strong enough to contain his behavior. This is United States of
America, and he should not be the President of the United States of America. He has done so many things that are not good for our country.
Yes there is someone strong enough, Donald Trump, so for Gawds sake make him the new President.
WHEN DID WE GO TO SLEEP ? WAS IT WHEN THEY SAID “WE GOT TO ELECT A BLACK MAN THIS TME!”.
I AM SORRY FOR ALL THE IDIOTS WHO VOTED THIS “BLACK” MAN INTO OFFICE. ARE YOU HAPPY ???
WAKE UP & VOTE A REAL MAN INTO OFFICE THIS TIME. ONLY DONALD TRUMP WILL DO. YOU WILL BE REALLY
HAPPY THEN. I KID YOU NOT..
And just think about all of the little children left behind that that don’t even have presents for Christmas.
Obama doesn’t even have to use his American Express card, He just bills it to the American Debt Expenses.
I hope he goes surfing while he is there. When the sharks are hungry like the many low income people that didn’t get to go on vacation with him.
I’m still trying to figure out how he even got elected to his second term. Everyone know what a poor President he was after his first term. I talk to a lot of people about this and what I hear is either they didn’t vote for him or at least there to ashamed to say they did. Or it was a fixed election. This so called President we have will go into history as the worst U.S. President in history. He is destroying are great country and what’s worse is the American people are letting him do it. Why would are Goverment allow him to spend this kind of money on his personal vacation is beyond me. Here’s the good news in less then a year he will be gone. Oh he will still get payed with are hard earned tax money but he won’t be running this country anymore. Trump for President ! We need change.
Until they catch Richie Rich the judge who did not put him jail, should do Richie.s time .
THANKS, FOR ALL SAFETY AND OPPORTUNITY.