Against the backdrop of the trouble -free cuts of the Trump administration, which have taken out thousands of government officials, canceled programs for lunch in the school lunch for needy children and reset funding for decisive cancer research, US taxpayers have given up for the cars for rent and hotel rooms, since the two East.
Federal Orders Reviewed by Independent It shows more than $ 40,000 payments to the secret service whose agents accompanied Don Jr. and Eric Trump to Qatar and Saudi Arabia this spring signed by the US public.
A transaction, a payment of $ 13,984, organized by the US Embassy in Riyadh and financed by the State Department’s Middle Eastern Bureau, describes the expenses such as: “Eric Trump’s visit to protect the USSS – 4 rental vehicles.”
It was prepared on April 20 and approved on May 13, 2025, the same day President Trump arrived in the kingdom. However, 41 -year -old Eric was not part of the official delegation, according to reports.
A second transaction for $ 26,813.24 was organized by the State Department and funded by the US Embassy in Doha, covered a room for Donald Trump, Jr., at 47, in Ned, a 5-star hotel and club only for members located in a building that was previously occupied by the ministry of the ministry.
“A visit to Trump Jr. – May 25 – Team X,” reads the costs prepared on May 11 and approved on May 18, 2025, almost a week after the president was in the city.
“Expect tactile furnishings, classic details and all the main things about a comfortable home away from home,” the property website told future travelers. “Guests enjoy the access to the club spa and Ned’s fitness hall throughout their stay. Transferring the airport to our BMW 7 series can be agreed upon request.”
Together, accommodation and local transport for the two adult Trump sons are worth the taxpayers at least $ 40,797.24, a figure that does not include air travel, agents pay, meals and other significant costs.
Donald Trump Jr. and Brother Eric Trump are entitled to 24/7 defense of the secret service and a recent trip to taxpayers in the Middle East (AFP via Getty Images)
Donald Trump Jr. and Brother Eric Trump are entitled to 24/7 defense of the secret service and a recent trip to taxpayers in the Middle East (AFP via Getty Images)
A Monday Montenestral Office spokesman said on Monday Independent“We support one of our protectives who go anywhere in the world, including foreign trips. For these foreign trips, we have staff on Earth before a defense to get there, so we can be in a few days in advance, working with local authorities and local authorities.”
The contracts themselves, such as the hotel rooms and cars for rent needed for the Don Jr. and Eric, are executed on behalf of the secret service by the US embassies in the countries of the destination, according to the agency spokesman.
He said that Trump’s family members “are our protective, we protect them, no matter where they go. When you are protected, you have 24/7 protection everywhere in the world. It doesn’t matter what type of trip it is, they get protection.”
The Trump Organization, which is ranked nominally by Don Jr. and Eric, while their father serves a second term in the White House, recently partnered with a Qatari real estate company, aspired by the sovereign wealth of the country-to build a luxury Golf resort of Trump.
The deal was announced two weeks before Trump made the breakthrough of Qatar, which subsequently “gave” the President to $ 400 million Boeing 747 for his own use.
The Trump family is also developing two new real estate projects in the capital of Saudi Arabia Riyadh, as well as the Trump Tower, which will be erected in Jeddah.
“Combining coastal elegance with the improvement of urban resistance, Trump Tower Jeddah delivers an unrivaled lifestyle,” the April 30 press release issued by the Trump organization. “From refined residences to world -class amenities and personalized service, every detail reflects Trump’s signed standard for high achievements.”
Trump was in Saudi Arabia and Qatar while his sons were there, who drummed a new business for the family company that cost taxpayers tens of thousands of dollars of travel expenses (Getty Images)
Trump was in Saudi Arabia and Qatar while his sons were there, who drummed a new business for the family company that cost taxpayers tens of thousands of dollars of travel expenses (Getty Images)
Two weeks later, the White House officially announced that Saudi Arabia had been committed to buying at least $ 100 billion military equipment from the United States and said Qatar had agreed to buy a $ 200 billion aircraft from Boeing, as well as about $ 3 billion in US drones from General Atomics and Jaythe.
The trips of Don Jr. and Eric have raised numerous questions regarding the aggressive Monetization of the Trump family of the Presidency, which the administration employees tried to minimize as non-production. During the President’s first term of office, Trump’s organization swore not to pursue foreign deals while the company’s namesake was on the service service, which immediately violated, according to an investigation into Global Witgiond Anti-Corruption Watchdog.
When Trump returned to the White House in January 2021, he released an ethics agreement saying that Trump’s organization would not directly reach transactions with foreign governments. However, this did not include a ban on doing business with private companies abroad, and the president’s family business is now included in at least 21 Trump projects worldwide, according to citizens for responsibility and ethics in Washington.
Yet, before a stay in the Middle East of Trump, White House press secretary Carolyn Levitus insisted that the term Trump would personally benefit from his family’s private business activities was in one word “ridiculous”.
“The president complies all laws of conflict of interest,” Levitt said. “The president is a successful businessman and I think, to be honest, this is one of the many reasons that people re -select him into this office.”
In October 2018, US taxpayers were struck with a $ 90,000 hotel banknote for first lady Melania Trump and her secret service, which had been in Cairo for six hours but did not spend the night.
A vacation to Berlin the previous year by Tiffany Trump, the younger daughter of the president, cost taxpayers at least $ 22,000 in a stay at the hotel for the secret service agents accompanying her and her boyfriend.
But when the secret service was traveling with the Trump family to Trump’s hotels, the agency was charged “excessive” surcharges, far above the usual rate, contrary to Eric Trump’s previous claim that the agents were “priced”.
At the same time, the vengeance Trump has sought revenge from employees he believes he was wrong during his first term, taking details of the secret service appointed to protect the elderly children of President Joe Biden, with those who take care of former State Secretary of State Mike Pompeo, John John Security John Secretary
During Barack Obama’s time, before intervening in Trump’s national policy, he ran on Twitter on the cost of securing the president and his family security, striving for alleged “taxpayer -funded vacations” worth of the US people “millions of dollars”.