President Donald Trump grew to become the primary president to attend the Tremendous Bowl over the weekend, however that doesn’t imply he’s the primary president who ever wished to.
Throughout the newest episode of Pod Save America, former President Barack Obama’s aides-turned-podcasters revealed the explanations their boss by no means took them to star-studded sporting occasions.
“I watched this and thought, ‘Why couldn’t we’ve got gone to stuff?’ Each time Obama wished to do one thing cool, we have been informed it was a safety danger or it was going to inconvenience individuals,” host Tommy Vietor stated.
He additionally identified that when the previous president and first girl Michelle Obama left Washington to see a Broadway play early in Obama’s first time period, conservative pundits “went insane for weeks” accusing them of being out of contact and complaining that they’d spent taxpayer cash.
Pod Save America hosts Jon Favreau, Jon Lovett, and Tommy Vietor stated they didn’t get to go to chill occasions once they labored within the White Home as a result of it was costly and a safety danger. / Pod Save America/YouTube
TIME journal listed the journey as one in all Obama’s prime 10 “all-time backfires,” with some estimates placing the value tag at about $72,000.
On Sunday, Trump flew from his Mar-a-Lago resort in Palm Seashore, Florida, to New Orleans to look at the Philadelphia Eagles tackle the Kansas Metropolis Chiefs at Caesars Superdome. En route, he held a press convention midair proclaiming Feb. 9 “Gulf of America Day” in honor of the newly renamed Gulf of Mexico.
“I might like to know the way a lot it prices to pack up Air Pressure One, fly to New Orleans, rename a gulf—a physique of water—after which go away at halftime,” Vietor stated.
In line with Rep. Virginia Foxx (R-NC), it prices $177,842 per flight hour to function Air Pressure One. That may put Trump’s spherical journey at about $800,000. At the least two different plane additionally fly together with Air Pressure One always, after which there’s the price of securing an enormous occasion just like the Tremendous Bowl, which about 65,700 followers attended this 12 months.
“However that’s not a part of the dialog due to this huge conservative bias,” Vietor stated.
Fox Information—which led the “frivolous spending” cost towards Obama—aired the sport and interviewed Trump earlier than it, he stated.