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Tiffany Trump Took a Vacation to the South of France and it Cost Us Taxpayers a Ton

Tiffany Trump, Donald Trump’s fourth child, certainly isn’t the Trump who gets scrutinized in the media the most — but she still gets all the benefits of being part of the first family.

One of these, of course, is a constant Secret Service attaché, and, as it turns out, her lifestyle means that this often costs a pretty penny.

Tiffany Trump’s trip to the Cannes Film Festival cost taxpayers over $20,000, according to Quartz, and that’s far from the only expensive overseas trip she’s taken during her father’s time in the Oval Office.

The paparazzi spotted Trump in Cannes with her boyfriend Michael Boulos, who she’s been with since the fall, according to The Daily Mail.

Quartz reported that it then found a Department of State contract revealing that Trump’s Secret Service detail had stayed at the five-star JW Marriot during her four-day stay in France, at a cost of $19,213.

Taking the Secret Service’s transport costs into account, this trip amounted to over $20,000 total.

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Trump is currently a student at Georgetown Law, and records show that she’s also used other school breaks to take overseas trips that cost amounts similar to the Cannes trip.

In March, for example, Trump’s spring break trip to the Serbian capital of Belgrade cost taxpayers at least $23,000.

Belgrade was named the cheapest city to visit in Europe in the fall of 2018, as Lonely Planet reported, but Quartz reported that she and her Secret Service staff stayed at the Square Nine hotel in Belgrade, where rooms run from upwards of $290 per night. According local Serbian media, Trump stayed in Belgrade for 11 nights in total, even putting a picture on Instagram with a caption reading “Hello from Serbia” in Serbian.

Back in July of 2017, then, Trump took another long overseas trip, this time to Berlin, Germany, as CBS News reported at the time. Hotel rooms alone for Trump’s Secret Service contingent cost $22,439 — and that was just in Berlin. CBS reported that Trump visited the Hungarian capital of Budapest on the same trip, but the report did not include any record of how much that additional segment of her trip cost. Again, this $22,439 did not include transport for the members of the Secret Service.

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