Quote:$85,000,000 doesn't really seem like that much.  Especially since that includes things like accommodations for Secret Service. Seems like one of those numbers that are used to shock people because to most people $85,000,000 is a lot of money.  But much of that money is being spent whether the President is on 'vacation' or not.  (Of note, Presidents pay for their own lodgings and their families lodgings.  It's everything else that costs, mainly the use of Air Force One and it's aerial support)

 

And of course Presidents never really have vacations.  As Nancy Reagan said "They don't get vacations, they just get a change of scenery".  


I wonder if these same people bemoaning Obama's vacations will keep track of Trump's.  They didn't seem to keep track of Bush's.