Yet. You’ll get the bill in February. I suggest you refuse to pay and file a lawsuit.
You’ll have to be more specific.
There are various US states in which the Governor’s Mansion is largely for ceremonial use only any more. But they are not CinC of a global superpower and Target One of every would-be magnicidal attacker.
Aside from the Situation Room, the White House has a bunker beneath it. The executive offices are next door. The White House is the ceremonial site of state dinners.
In short, there’s really no practical way for a president not to live there. (And I doubt that Trump will be able to be a part-time resident, as this is about as full-time a job as there is anywhere.)
We’ve had quite a collection, yes. But, he was specifically referring to Rod Blagojevich. IIRC, he never moved his family to Springfield, and established an office at the Thompson Center in downtown Chicago (the security convoys taking him from home to office, and back, were very good at further messing up Chicago traffic).
Maybe not, but it’s sort of a brown M&M, isn’t it?
I’m sure you’ve heard the Van Halen Brown M&M story? As the story goes, The Van Halen “rider” of requirements for a venue to host their concert was pages and pages of both technical/safety documentation and demands for the band’s comfort, like a certian kind of beer and comfy chairs and all the ways rock stars get spoiled, and towards the end was a requirement for a bowl of M&Ms but all the brown ones had to be picked out.
When someone though to ask Eddie Van Halen (or David Lee Roth, depending which version of the story you believe) why he disliked brown M&Ms, he replied that oh, gosh, he didn’t eat M&Ms at all, and the whole point of that is to make sure they’re paying attention. He reasoned that if the venue staff really did pick out the brown M&Ms, the band could be confident the really important stiuff - lighting, staging, stuff that actually could hurt someone if it was done wrong in a very large, complex rock and roll show - would be right. A routine inspection would suffice. But if he found brown M&Ms then someone didn’t read the rider, and it was time to go out and have a REALLY close look at what else they’d forgotten. A brown M&M wouldn’t kill anyone, but a missing support cable, loose floodlight, or something not grounded sure as hell could.
Trump balking at living in the White House is, if it was just one thing, a manageable problem. But you know it’s not one thing. It’s the first sign Trump isn’t really taking this job seriously and he has no respect for the office - Trump, unlike any precedessor in living memory, thinks that in “President Trump,” the second word is the important one.
My fellow Illinoisians, are any of you getting a “been there, done that” vibe about Trump’s presidency?
It was Rod Blagojevich who decided he didn’t want to live in the Governor’s Mansion, preferring to maintain his residence in Chicago and commute to the capital (at taxpayers’ expense) whenever he absolutely had to.
Now we have Bruce Rauner, a rich businessman with no previous governmental experience. And he’s doing a great job. :rolleyes:
What elbows said. Trump’s decision to keep his family at Trump Tower is estimated to cost the City of New York a million dollars a day in security costs. That’s $365 million a year for the taxpayers of New York City, and over a billion dollars over the course of Trump’s term.
I think that is something that the taxpayers of New York have a legitimate beef about.
Why would it be New York City’s responsibility?
Protecting the President is in the hands of the Feds, no?
One would hope that once he’s sworn in, the whole operation becomes fully fed turf and at the least the SecServ reimburses NYC for their part of the costs.
Meanwhile Trump Tower’s safety/security provisions and its comms and utilities infrastructure are sure to get a sweet state of the art upgrade at the Treasury’s expense.
Were I a tenant I’d try to get out of the lease and move away from the new NY Prime Target as soon as I can.
Of course he was less capable. This is one of the sillier defenses of this. You really think there is the level of physical and communications security on the road as there is at the White House? Do you really think he can personally meet with politicians from all over the country as easily in Manhattan as he can in Washington? Meeting with Ambassadors? Add to that the obvious fact that Trump is also going to be “on the road” too, besides possibly splitting his time between residences.
I’m pretty sure that the federal government is supposed to reimburse the local government for such things. I remember a controversy where some sheriff was pissed off because he hadn’t been reimbursed for providing security to an Obama campaign rally.
Yes, exactly. Especially since Trump was asked “Will you live at the White House?” during the campaigns and he said that he would.
We can add this to the growing list of campaign promises Trump broke before he was even sworn in… clearly someone didn’t even read his own fine print. :smack:
I’m no Trump fanboy, but I think it’s a little premature to say that he broke his promise to live in the White House. I’ll bet that once he understands why he needs to be there, he’ll move.
And let’s face it; his penthouse apartment is nice, but as a symbol of authority and power, nothing beats the White House.
Because the police of a city have to deal with security issues and protect the public. Since the presence of the president-elect raises security issues generally on 5th Avenue, for people entirely unrelated to Trump (e.g. Private citizens walking/driving on 5th Avenue; neighbouring businesses; private citizens/businesses who are tenants in Trump Tower), the NYPD has to protect them from security risks as well as the president-elect.
Mayor De Blasio has asked Congress for reimbursement for the first month of providing security for Trump Tower and 5th Avenue , to the tune of $35 million. The going forward estimate of the daily cost has apparently been lowered to about half a million a day, according to this recent article:
https://www.google.ca/amp/mobile.reuters.com/article/amp/idUSKBN13U212?client=safari
“Well, they they asked me if I’d live at the White House but they didn’t ask me how long I’d live there… a couple of days. Haha.
These guys are amatures. Heifers. Sad.”
This is working out well for the landlord.
If NYC was good enough for George Washington, it is good enough for the Trump card! I would suggest some more gold plating, stuffed animals and barely clad models though. It is pathetic for the President of the U.S. to be upstaged by Hugh Hefner decades ago.