First, the Trump administration floated out the idea that action star of yesteryear, Sylvester Stallone would become the head of the National Endowment for the Arts (NEA). Stallone, possibly seeing that the NEA’s appropriations budget was less than half of what Expendables 2 grossed, decided to pass. A couple of days ago, it was being reported that Donald Trump and his team of “We think everyone besides ourselves are ‘expendable’s” were planning on completely doing away with all of that artsy fartsy government waste—by potentially eliminating the NEA and NEH. The NEA almost reached $148,000,000 in appropriations last year. The highest it has been since 1996, when then Speaker of the House and brainiac with the worst ideas ever Newt Gingrich was able to get the budget cut in half.
Trump and his family, shortly after winning the 2016 election, announced that they would not be living full time in Washington D.C.—in that White House place you see on television. The cost to us taxpayers for letting Melania and fam poop on golden toilet seats? About $1,000,000 a day. If Trump just serves four years he will have cost Americans about $1.5 billion in housing two people alone. Don’t forget, he gets secret service for life now that he’s a president.