The U.S. State Department paid £52,477, or about $50,000, on President Donald Trump’s two-night visit to his golf resort in Scotland during his trip to the United Kingdom last week, The Scotsman reports.
Most of that money went towards the hotel rooms that Trump and his staff, along with his son Eric Trump, at a hotel owned by the company SLC Turnberry, which also owns the golf course.
Trump resigned as director of the company after taking office, but still owns it through the Donald J Trump Revocable Trust, and its directors still include his sons Eric and Donald Trump Jr.
“This is another example of President Trump using the power and authority of his office to profit personally,” Brendan Fischer, director of federal reform at watchdog group the Campaign Legal Center, told the newspaper. “President Trump not only used the occasion of a state visit to promote his Trump-branded golf course, but told US taxpayers to foot the bill.”
Eric defended the trip in a tweet on Tuesday.
“Not for the first time Donald Trump has serious questions to answer over the conflation of his business interests with his role as president,” said Stephen Gethins MP, the foreign affairs spokesman for the Scottish National Party.
“More worryingly for people in Scotland is the huge multi-million pound cost of Donald Trump’s unwelcome visit, which will be covered at the expense of UK taxpayers.
“President Trump’s visit was not only hugely embarrassing for Theresa May, but it also underlines exactly why so many people object to his abhorrent policies and are deeply concerned about the damage of a Tory-Trump Brexit trade deal.”
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