And the Defense Department is looking to rent space in Trump Tower — which goes for as much as $1.5 million a year per
floor — so they can bring the nuclear launch codes along when the president comes to visit his wife in New York.
He may not have operational command, but Eric does, and it’s hard for folks in Uruguay not to believe
that the president is watching when the son comes to call and mix with his fellow realtors, flanked by a security detail that’s on our dime.
And last weekend Trump happily ran up a federal bill of around $3 million for a trip to Mar-a-Lago where he watched the Super Bowl
and dropped in on a Red Cross ball, which presumably brought his resort a hefty fee.
“We’re going to have an amazing company,” Eric told the local media, adding
that his father was going to do “amazing things for the United States.” And that Dad would be “an incredible commander in chief.” The apple doesn’t fall far from the tree, adjective-wise.
But still, critics claim that Melania Trump’s decision not to move into the White House is costing
the country more in security than the annual budget for the National Endowment for the Arts.
Trump did announce that when the Japanese prime minister, Shinzo Abe, came to visit
him in Mar-a-Lago this weekend, he was not going to charge Abe for his room.
We don’t want to make little Barron change schools,
but Trump could buy Melania a condo in a relatively low-traffic location to save security from having to create a no-go zone in Midtown.