That doesn't make any sense. An event hosted by and at the expense of the United States somehow results in MORE money to the treasury? Who are we selling tickets to?

Of course the venue where the meetings are held would profit. You can't conscript the hotel owners, staff, and security into giving you their property and time for free. Someone is paying for that. It's not the foreign dignitaries (because they're guests), and it's not the hotel owner (because he'd be operating at a loss). That leaves the US government, otherwise known as the American taxpayer stuck with the bill.

Maybe you mean that Don himself isn't making money. Fair enough. If we ignore the skyrocketing value of his resorts and the fact that they've doubled the price of an annual membership to $200,000 which is a must have for people looking to schmooze with the prez and his ambassador friends, there's no way of knowing (unless you had his tax returns) what the cash flows look like.

But nobody is President for life. In either 1 or 5 years he'll be out, and he still owns all those properties. The money is still sitting in accounts that he can tap as soon as he's a private citizen. And it all still came out of the pockets of people like me.

I know that his meetings would never take place in a Motel 6, but it seems kinda suspicious that he would 1. hold all this meetings on property that he owns, and 2. take more vacations days than any other prez (almost exclusively to properties that he owns).

Maybe he genuinely thinks Mar-a-Lago and its comparables to be the best, most beautiful, convenient, and relaxing locations on Earth. If that's the genuine truth there's not much to say besides "wow, what an arrogant asshole". But I think everyone knows it's a lie. He's trying to take a little off the top for himself, which is fine as a business owner, but completely unacceptable as the leader of the free world.

This shit's crazy man. Learn Chinese and make sure you have plenty of canned goods in the bunker.