ExclusiveDon Jr. and Eric Trump's Middle East jaunt cost US taxpayers over $40,000 in hotel rooms and rental cars

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Exclusive: Don Jr. and Eric Trump’s Middle East jaunt cost US taxpayers over $40,000 in hotel rooms and rental cars

The outlays by the Secret Service did not include flight costs, agents’ salaries, meals, and other significant expenditures while the president’s kids were drumming up new business for the Trump Organization

https://www.the-independent.com/news/world/americas/us-politics/don-jr-eric-trump-secret-service-qatar-saudi-arabia-b2793080.html


Monday 21 July 2025 11:58 EDT



Amid wanton budget cuts by the Trump Administration that put thousands of government employees out of work, canceled school lunch programs for needy kids and zeroed out funding for crucial research into cancer, U.S. taxpayers shelled out for rental cars and hotel rooms as the president’s two eldest sons pursued private business deals in the Middle East.

Federal procurement data reviewed by The Independent shows more than $40,000 in disbursements by the Secret Service, whose agents accompanied Don Jr. and Eric Trump to Qatar and Saudi Arabia this spring, underwritten by the American public.

One transaction, a $13,984 payment arranged by the U.S. Embassy in Riyadh and funded by the State Department’s Bureau of Near Eastern Affairs, describes the outlay as: “ERIC TRUMP Protective USSS Visit – 4 rental vehicles.”
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A second transaction, for $26,813.24, was arranged by the State Department and funded by the U.S. Embassy in Doha, covered a room for Donald Trump Jr., 47, at The Ned, a 5-star hotel and members-only club located in a building formerly occupied by the Qatari Interior Ministry.



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A vacation to Berlin the previous year by Tiffany Trump, the president’s youngest daughter, cost taxpayers at least $22,000 in hotel stays for the Secret Service agents accompanying her and her boyfriend.



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