We already know that it’s costing New York about $1 million a day to provide external security at Trump Tower in New York. Yesterday’s NBC News report on the topic helps to fill in some details.
When Trump heads home to the luxury 58-story high rise on Fifth Avenue, the feds will also need to find accommodations for staffers in a building where a modest one-bedroom, one-bathroom apartment rents for $5,250 a month, according to the StreetEasy real estate site.
"They would need at least a whole floor, and every apartment on that floor would need to be turned into an office," Sullivan said.
Maybe President Trump will waive rent for his government staff. After all, that would be the opposite of jacking up the rent for his campaign offices, and he seems to have reversed course from the campaign.
But if there’s one thing Trump has been consistent on, it’s that he’s always looking out for himself. Clearly Trump is someone who asks what our country can do for him but never what he can do for our country.
I wish there was some definitive way to put an end to this nonsense, like finding indisputable evidence that Trump colluded with the Kremlin to steal the election.