Friday, October 31, 2025
Oct. 31, 2025: Trump flew to Mar-a-Lago and hosted a Halloween party there. Using the tracker’s benchmarks for VC-25A travel, off-site security, and local motorcade, estimated taxpayer leisure cost: about $840,000.
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Travel to Mar-a-Lago for Halloween social event
The White House pool/schedule in the roll call shows President Trump departing the White House for Palm Beach, arriving at Mar-a-Lago at 2:08 PM, and then hosting a Halloween Party there at 6:00 PM. Because the documented same-day destination was a Trump property social event rather than routine White House business, this is treated as a leisure/off-site day. Estimated federal outlays use the provided benchmarks: roughly 2.0 flight-hours on VC-25A for Andrews-to-Palm Beach with a domestic support factor of 0.5 (~$533,529), peak off-site Secret Service/staff ($300,000), and a short local motorcade to Mar-a-Lago ($10,000), rounded to about $840,000.