Trump Flies With Gold-Plated Bathroom Fixtures, And You’re Paying Millions For It

[InTheLight]

Anyone with an IQ greater than his hat size?

Here, I will walk you through it.

1. The SS does not ride on Trump's plane.
2. The SS flies commercial or on a USAF plane.

Wrong.

From the article:
Trump’s Secret Service agents appear to make up more than half of the plane’s flight manifests. And that means taxpayers are now legally required to pick up the majority of its staggering running costs.

On a brief flight this month on which Trump invited a small group of reporters aboard, there were only about 20 passengers, not counting the crew. Nearly half appeared to be Secret Service agents.

3. The SS agents don't pay for their own travel expense.
4. The government pays for their travel expense.

Yep.

From the article:
...the Secret Service paid to the Trump campaign at $1.6 million. But a closer look at campaign finance filings shows that the U.S. Secret Service covered more than $2.3 million of the $3.8 million Trump’s campaign has paid Tag Air in 2016.

5. The taxpayers fund the government.

From the article:
Taxpayers are now picking up most of Donald Trump’s air travel costs, unnecessarily spending millions of dollars because he insists on flying aboard his luxury 757 instead of a practical plane.

 

[Rob_BW]

So Trump should fly around an extra 150 people just to make the SS have a smaller share?

 

[TCassidy]

Wrong.

From the article:
Trump’s Secret Service agents appear to make up more than half of the plane’s flight manifests. And that means taxpayers are now legally required to pick up the majority of its staggering running costs.

On a brief flight this month on which Trump invited a small group of reporters aboard, there were only about 20 passengers, not counting the crew. Nearly half appeared to be Secret Service agents.



Yep.

From the article:
...the Secret Service paid to the Trump campaign at $1.6 million. But a closer look at campaign finance filings shows that the U.S. Secret Service covered more than $2.3 million of the $3.8 million Trump’s campaign has paid Tag Air in 2016.



From the article:
Taxpayers are now picking up most of Donald Trump’s air travel costs, unnecessarily spending millions of dollars because he insists on flying aboard his luxury 757 instead of a practical plane.

Once again you have demonstrated a seeming inability to follow fairly simple logic.

Let's try again. Here is the scenario:

1. The SS does not ride on Trump's plane.

The government decides it is costing too much to pay the roughly 50% of the operating cost so they decline Trump's offer to allow them to ride in his airplane.

2. The SS flies commercial or on a USAF plane.

The result of the SS deciding not to fly with Trump results in them having to either fly commercial or having to use a USAF plane and paying the full cost.

Got it now?

 

[Rob_BW]

I figured a jet with fewer people, and therefore less luggage, would have lower fuel consumption costs, which would be the prime cost of flying a private jet.

 

[poncho]

The thing I find most interesting is that democrats are suddenly interested in saving the poor taxpayers some money after all these years sitting by and watching trillions in taxpayer dollars get lost and squandered.

 

[InTheLight]

Once again you have demonstrated a seeming inability to follow fairly simple logic.

Let's try again. Here is the scenario:

1. The SS does not ride on Trump's plane.

The government decides it is costing too much to pay the roughly 50% of the operating cost so they decline Trump's offer to allow them to ride in his airplane.

2. The SS flies commercial or on a USAF plane.

The result of the SS deciding not to fly with Trump results in them having to either fly commercial or having to use a USAF plane and paying the full cost.

Got it now?

Yes, I see that you were speaking of hypothetical situations. My bad.

Could you explain how, in your scheme, the Secret Service is supposed to protect Trump if they don't travel on the same plane?

Wouldn't it be easier to assign a flat dollar value to the protection, and not base it on the number of passengers? Seems to me the more passengers on the plane, the more people that need to be watched, and the harder the job for the Secret Service.

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