2nd-term tab For Trump's Golf Hobby Tops $70 Million, On Track To Exceed $300 Million (DOUBLE 1st term)

Second-Term Tab For Trump’s Golf Hobby Tops $70 Million, On Track To Exceed $300 Million
The total would double the $151.5 million taxpayers shelled out for him to play golf during his first term.
By S.V. Date
Nov 26, 2025, 11:36 AM EST
|Updated Nov 26, 2025
https://www.huffpost.com/entry/trump-golf-300-million_n_69271f3ce4b00aca68d3d689

WEST PALM BEACH, Fla. — Taxpayers have now shelled out nearly $71 million for Trump’s golf hobby since he retook office in January, with his second-term total on pace to break $300 million, according to a HuffPost analysis.

His visit to his course adjacent to the Palm Beach County jail Wednesday was on his 16th trip to his Mar-a-Lago country club home four miles away. Each of those trips cost $3.4 million in travel and security expenses.

If he makes just two more trips to Mar-a-Lago in December — he made four in November, including the one over Halloween weekend — his golf expenses will top $75 million in 2025. On that pace, he would exceed $300 million over this four-year term.

In contrast, he spent $151.5 million of taxpayer money in golf-related travel and security expenses during his first term.

“I really wish I could tell you that it would make anyone in America change their mind about him, but the corruption is so baked in, so endemic, and so ludicrous that it feels like the collective reaction will be a shrug,” said longtime Republican consultant Rick Wilson, now a Trump critic. “It’s one more example of Trump defining the presidency down. Way, way down.”