The American people have reportedly forked out a huge figure for Donald Trump to play golf during the first 31 days of his second stint as president of the United States.
Trump hits the fairway in July last year (
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Donald Trump has allegedly spent a staggering $10.7million of taxpayers’ money playing golf since the start of his second term.
The fairway-loving president has racked up the huge figure despite his much publicised crackdown on government spending. The six-figure sum, reported by Huffpost, shows the 78-year-old is taking the sport as seriously as he did during his first period as commander-in-chief. He played hundreds of rounds a year over that time.
The Trump Golf Tracker, a website that records data on Trump’s ball-hitting hobby, showed that he has spent nine of his 31 days as president in 2025 on a course. That accounts for nearly 30% of his time during his second term in office. If the calculations are correct, this means each of his visits to a golf course has cost over $1m.
Trump played hundreds of rounds of golf during his first stint as president ( AFP via Getty Images)
The $10.7million total is based on a 2019 Government Accountability Office report. It calculated that each of Trump’s trips to his country club Mar-a-Lago during his first term came in at a cost of nearly $3.4million, this included the cost of Air Force One for a round trip as well as expenses for flying down vehicles including two presidential limousines, Trump’s motorcade and reimbursing the Coast Guard for stationing a gunship in the Atlantic Ocean just off the coast.
Trump’s eye-watering spending comes after thousands of federal government employees were fired by the new Department of Government Efficiency, headed by Elon Musk. ‘DOGE’, as it is known, was created to discover and eliminate what the Trump administration has deemed to be wasteful government spending.
But its access to Treasury records, as well as its inspection of various government agencies, has ignited widespread concern among critics over the increasing power of unelected Musk. New York Attorney General Letitia James said DOGE’s access to the data raises security problems and the possibility of an illegal freeze in federal funds.
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“This unelected group, led by the world’s richest man, is not authorized to have this information, and they explicitly sought this unauthorized access to illegally block payments that millions of Americans rely on, payments for health care, child care and other essential programs,” James said in a video message released by her office.
Trump has been out on golf courses nine times since he began his second period in office ( AFP via Getty Images)
But judges appointed by Democratic and Republican presidents haven’t always gone along with those arguments, at least so far. “It is not the job of the federal courts to police the security of the information systems in the executive branch,” wrote U.S. District Judge Randolph Moss in a case involving the Office of Personnel Management. Moss was appointed by President Barack Obama.
The success is striking given the other challenges that Trump has faced in the judicial system, which has blocked — at least temporarily — his efforts to limit birthright citizenship, freeze congressionally authorized foreign aid and stop some healthcare services for transgender youth.
If Musk’s opponents continue struggling to gain traction with lawsuits, he could be largely unencumbered in his crusade to downsize the federal government and workforce.
“The continued successes in the courts in favor of the Trump administration shouldn’t be a surprise to anyone who has ever read our great Constitution, which clearly lays out the role of the Executive Branch, and which President Trump and his entire administration are following to a T,” Harrison Fields, the White House deputy press secretary, said in a statement. “The resistance campaign can try, but they will continue to fail in their pursuit to rewrite the Constitution and deny the people the legal authority of the President to run the Executive Branch.”
