{"id":539954,"date":"2026-03-16T10:51:09","date_gmt":"2026-03-16T10:51:09","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/539954\/"},"modified":"2026-03-16T10:51:09","modified_gmt":"2026-03-16T10:51:09","slug":"donald-trumps-golf-trips-have-cost-us-taxpayers-staggering-amount-as-hes-spotted-amid-iran-war","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/539954\/","title":{"rendered":"Donald Trump&#8217;s golf trips have cost US taxpayers staggering amount as he&#8217;s spotted amid Iran war"},"content":{"rendered":"<p class=\"text_text__nEn66\">Donald Trump has been slammed for being spotted on the golf course while the conflict in Iran continues.<\/p>\n<p class=\"text_text__nEn66\">The US and Israel launched joint military action on Iran just over a fortnight ago, with more than 2,000 people reported to have been killed in the Middle East.<\/p>\n<p class=\"text_text__nEn66\"><a class=\"anchor_link__6t7IO\" href=\"https:\/\/www.sportbible.com\/football\/football-news\/fifa-world-cup\/donald-trump-us-war-major-combat-operations-912620-20260228\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\" target=\"_blank\">Iran retaliated with missile and drone strikes <\/a>on a number of US military bases, including in the United Arab Emirates, Kuwait and Bahrain. <\/p>\n<p class=\"text_text__nEn66\">On March 6, Iran&#8217;s ambassador to the U.N said that at least 1,332 \u2060people had been killed since the war began, with neighbouring countries also experiencing deaths.<\/p>\n<p class=\"text_text__nEn66\"><a class=\"anchor_link__6t7IO\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener nofollow\" href=\"https:\/\/www.dailysabah.com\/world\/mid-east\/over-2000-dead-mostly-civilians-in-us-israel-iran-war\">Reuters <\/a>also reported that a total of thirteen service members from the US have been killed &#8211; including the deaths of six after a US military refueling aircraft crashed over Iraq.<\/p>\n<p class=\"text_text__nEn66\">Days after <a class=\"anchor_link__6t7IO\" href=\"https:\/\/www.sportbible.com\/donald-trump\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\" target=\"_blank\">Trump <\/a>announced &#8220;major combat operations&#8221;, he welcomed <a class=\"anchor_link__6t7IO\" href=\"https:\/\/www.sportbible.com\/lionel-messi\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\" target=\"_blank\">Lionel Messi<\/a> and<a class=\"anchor_link__6t7IO\" href=\"https:\/\/www.sportbible.com\/inter-miami\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\" target=\"_blank\"> Inter Miami <\/a>to the White House and he has continued to play rounds of golf.<\/p>\n<p class=\"text_text__nEn66\">He was recently spotted on the golf course wearing his usual baseball and polo t-shirt attire, having spent the weekend at his golf club in west Palm Beach, Florida.<\/p>\n<p><img alt=\"Donald Trump has played a lot of golf in his second term as President. Image: Getty\" data-chromatic=\"ignore\" loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" data-nimg=\"fill\" class=\"article-image_image__XvzgU\" style=\"position:absolute;height:100%;width:100%;left:0;top:0;right:0;bottom:0;color:transparent\"   src=\"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-content\/uploads\/2026\/03\/aHR0cHM6Ly9ldS1pbWFnZXMuY29udGVudHN0YWNrLmNvbS92My9hc3NldHMvYmx0YTkwZDA1YWQ0MWE1NGE3MS9ibHQxZjI3ZDQ3.webp\"\/>Donald Trump has played a lot of golf in his second term as President. Image: Getty<\/p>\n<p class=\"text_text__nEn66\">Trump regularly spends time between his Mar-a-Lago estate in Florida and the White House and is known to enjoy playing golf &#8211; particularly on courses he owns.<\/p>\n<p>Donald Trump&#8217;s golf trips broken down<\/p>\n<p class=\"text_text__nEn66\">The 79-year-old, who claims to have won 38 club championships, has had his golf exploits tracked by the website <a class=\"anchor_link__6t7IO\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener nofollow\" href=\"https:\/\/didtrumpgolftoday.com\/\">DidTrumpGolfToday.com<\/a>.<\/p>\n<p class=\"text_text__nEn66\">The website uses POTUS&#8217;s public schedule to do this and do not update his golf days unless there is a sighting of Trump on the golf course.<\/p>\n<p class=\"text_text__nEn66\">In his second term as President, Trump is believed to have spent 99 days out of 421 golfing &#8211; which equates to 23.5% of his presidency and means roughly every one in four days has included visiting a golf club.<\/p>\n<p class=\"text_text__nEn66\">The website used information from a <a class=\"anchor_link__6t7IO\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener nofollow\" href=\"https:\/\/www.gao.gov\/assets\/gao-19-178.pdf\">2019 Government Accountability Office report <\/a>which focused on four golf trips Trump took in his first presidency and based it on the average price per round calculated.<\/p>\n<p class=\"text_text__nEn66\">It&#8217;s estimated that since returning to office, Trump has racked up a cost of $138,600,000 for US taxpayers from playing golf.<\/p>\n<p class=\"text_text__nEn66\">His first term totalled estimated costs of $151.5 million for around 261 rounds of golf &#8211; one every 5.6 days.<\/p>\n<p class=\"text_text__nEn66\">But he could be on course to surpass that. According to the <a class=\"anchor_link__6t7IO\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener nofollow\" href=\"https:\/\/www.huffingtonpost.co.uk\/entry\/trump-golf-300-million_n_69271f3ce4b00aca68d3d689\">Huffington Post<\/a>. trips to the Mar-a-Lago cost an estimated $3.4 million in travel and security expenses and the biggest expense is for the Air Force One plane to travel from Joint Base Andrews in Maryland to Palm Beach International Airport.<\/p>\n<p class=\"text_text__nEn66\">Previously, a report from <a class=\"anchor_link__6t7IO\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener nofollow\" href=\"https:\/\/apnews.com\/article\/biden-campaign-travel-reimburse-federal-government-6885c172b11d972920f8fb60869868ac\">AP<\/a> claimed the aircraft costs roughly $200,000 per hour, according to Pentagon data.<\/p>\n<p class=\"text_text__nEn66\">Presidents playing golf is not a new tradition but Trump has been slammed for doing so by Rick Reilly, a former ESPN and Sports Illustrated columnist who has <a class=\"anchor_link__6t7IO\" href=\"https:\/\/www.sportbible.com\/golf\/donald-trump-golf-cheating-claims-354033-20250409\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\" target=\"_blank\">shared a plethora of stories about him cheating<\/a> on the fairway.<\/p>\n<p class=\"text_text__nEn66\">On X, Reilly <a class=\"anchor_link__6t7IO\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener nofollow\" href=\"https:\/\/x.com\/ReillyRick\/status\/2031155453938577883?s=20\">wrote<\/a> that George Bush &#8220;stopped playing golf during the Gulf War out of respect for the sons who were coming home in boxes&#8221; but said Trump &#8220;starts a war and then tools around in his golf cart, throwing his ball out of bunkers&#8221;.<\/p>\n<p class=\"text_text__nEn66\">Reilly called the 45th and 47 US president &#8220;a soulless little punk&#8221;.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"Donald Trump has been slammed for being spotted on the golf course while the conflict in Iran continues.&hellip;\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":539955,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[443],"tags":[49,48,1376,622,82],"class_list":["post-539954","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","category-golf","tag-ca","tag-canada","tag-donald-trump","tag-golf","tag-sports"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/539954","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=539954"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/539954\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/539955"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=539954"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=539954"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=539954"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}