Presidents' Salaries During and After Office
"While in office, the U.S. president receives a salary of $400,000 a year and a $50,000 expense account. Congress added the expense account in 1949. This pays for the president's personal expenses, such as food and dry cleaning."
Trump Golf Count
"How do you calculate the cost reported on your main page?
Our total estimated cost currently includes five components: (1) Cost of flights to Mar a Lago and Bedminster, New Jersey, using
Philip Bump's estimate of
$514,000 per hour of flight time, (2) An additional
$6.4 million per year, prorated per day at a rate based on money
reimbursed so far, allocated to Palm Beach and Bedminster for
"extraordinary law enforcement personnel costs", (3) Coast guard costs for protection of Mar a Lago, estimated at
$236,000 per day spent there (see
Drew Harwell's report for sources), (4) Costs paid by the U.S. government for Trump's
stay at his club and
rental of luxury vehicles in Turnberry, Scotland in July, 2018, and (5) Cost of staying at his golf club in Doonbeg, Ireland, rather than London during his
visit to the United Kingdom in June, 2019."