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> A US president visiting his own golf course on a state visit!

Meh, I don't have too much of a problem with this one. A number of US Presidents, both modern and long-since dead, have been known to indulge in golfing [1].

There's so many truly bad things Trump has done, him visiting a golf course is hardly extraordinary in comparison.

[1] https://www.scga.org/blog/13174/every-presidential-golfer-ra...

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They didn't pay themselves to golf or charge the government millions to house the secret service. It's among the most blatant bits of corruption.

Are you OK knowing how much it costs taxpayers for him to stay at his own golf course? It's corruption at its core. He's robbing taxpayers. It comes to around 10 million per trip of the taxpayer dollars.

He gives smoke and mirrors with "I don't take salary" but it's in plain sight he's profiting from his seat, which no other president did at this magnitude in recent times. They made Jimmy sell his peanut farm.

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