The great ones play through pain.
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Since 2016, federal government departments have spent
about $130 million for Trump to hit the links. That doesn’t include another
$13.8 million incurred in local security costs that the federal government reimbursed to the city of Palm Beach through spring 2019. If you extrapolate those costs to today’s date, the total local and federal costs for Trump’s athletic endeavors total $152 million or roughly $50.6 million per year for Trump to play golf. In the three years since Trump became president, no billionaire team owner, no sports organization, no company has paid a human being more to play golf.
Using
Forbes’ list of highest-paid athletes, Trump ties for 10th among America’s best-paid athletes and 17th in the world. Trump’s “salary” is the same as Los Angeles Angels superstar
Mike Trout’s, whose 12-year, $426.5 million deal was the richest contract in the history of team sports.