The First Family of the United States is always a priority. Trump’s family are always surrounded by the secret service to be able to ensure their safety at all time. There will always be people out there who do not like them in any way so it could really be quite dangerous for them not to have people protecting them, especially if they are traveling whether on business trips or just for vacations and such.
Then again, the secret service, of course, needs to be funded, and the taxpayers are known to be the ones making this possible. Funds are not unlimited and it is not cheap to make sure the president and his family are safe wherever they go. Which is why people seem to be not like the fact that the Trump’s are traveling so much that it costs them hundreds of million dollars every single time. The most recent one was when two of the president’s son left the country to travel to Dubai and attend the wedding of a business partner.
Trumps’ Lavish Trip To Dubai
The presidential sons, Donald Trump Jr. and Eric Trump flew all the way to the United Arab Emirates to attend a wedding of their business partner, Hussain Sajwani, in the Trump Organization who happens to be an Arabian business mogul and is known as the “Donald Trump of Dubai”.
Along with them is the senior adviser to the Trump campaign, Lara Trump, who also happens to be Eric’s wife. The wedding party which is said to last for a couple of days is actually for Sajwani’s daughter Amira. The Donald Trump of Dubai’s daughter also serves as the chief financial officer for one of his companies, this is actually like the relationship of the president with his daughter Ivanka, who has also been working closely with her father.
The Sajwanis are known to be the ones who are behind the company DAMAC. This family is known to be one of Forbes magazine’s wealthiest families in the role. Sajawani and Trump actually met in 2005 and were rumored to be planning a Trump twin tower in the city, however, at that time, the Global financial crisis made it impossible for them to pursue it.
According to the spokesperson of the Trump Organization, aside for the wedding, the Trumps will be spending most of their time with the Sajwanis. They are said to be visiting the Trump International Golf Club in Dubai, which actually had such positive reviews since last year. There is Tiger Woods design that is being worked on at the moment at the said gold club and the Trumps are said to be looking into that as well.
Secret Service Costs
It may seem like a normal business trip for the Trump brothers but it has been reported that it cost taxpayers $73,000. One of the main reasons for this is that the secret service agents of the United States must stay close to the Trumps at all times so that basically means that they also need to be checking in to the nearest hotels possible as well as take car services the entire time they are in Dubai.
Unfortunately, this trip is for the family business and not exactly for any government-related matter, so most of the taxpayers in the US are too far from being happy upon hearing this news.
According to a statement by Mason Brayman, who is the spokesman of the United States Secret Service, a protective operation is actually being conducted in Dubai and they aren’t exactly in the position to comment on the matters that involve the people they are protecting. This is actually not the very first time that the Trumps have been in a controversy with their travel costs involving the secret service because last year, during a trip to Uruguay, Eric Trump secret service cost almost $70,000 and Ivanka, along with her husband and kids, cost secret service about $300,000.
Last year was also the same year that there were reports that the United States Secret Service is losing money and the people are keeping a watchful eye on the Trumps as to how much of their taxes will go to the travel expenses.