Friday, May 2, 2025
May 2, 2025: Trump golfed in West Palm Beach while staying at Mar-a-Lago. Estimated federal leisure-related cost: $357,000, driven mainly by off-site security and local motorcade operations.
ACTIVITY BREAKDOWN
Local motorcade: Mar-a-Lago ↔ Trump International Golf Club West Palm Beach
The roll call places President Trump traveling from Mar-a-Lago to his West Palm Beach golf club in the morning and back in the afternoon on May 2, 2025. Using the provided benchmark for a short local presidential motorcade, this is estimated as two short trips at $5,000 each.
Off-site Secret Service and staff for leisure day in Palm Beach
Because the day included documented recreational golf activity away from the White House complex, the provided methodology supports using the peak off-site Secret Service and staff benchmark of $300,000 for the day. The evening RNC gala at Mar-a-Lago is not separately costed here because donor/political event spending is excluded; this line covers only the federal protection burden actually incurred that day.
Incidentals
Non-itemized logistics and support costs, capped below 15% of travel plus security per the supplied methodology. Calculated from the documented off-site leisure movement and rounded to the nearest thousand.