‘Quarters’ are dollars for Trump

AVERAGE AMERICANS may not be able to afford to stay at President Trump’s Mar-a-Lago resort, but their taxes can help pay for others’ time there.

An invoice to the National Security Council published Friday shows that the government paid Trump’s business $1,092 for an unidentified person to lodge at the Florida resort for two nights in March.

It was not immediately clear whether the invoice, obtained via Freedom of Information request by transparency group Property of the People, was an anomaly or whether the government was routinely paying for officials to stay at Trump’s “Winter White House.”

Also included in Property of the People’s findings are invoices to the U.S. Embassy for four nights at a Trump hotel in Panama this June, and to an unidentified agency for a night at a Trump hotel in Las Vegas in March.

The Florida invoice shows that the NSC paid the “rack rate,” hotel-speak for the standard price, during the March 3 and 4 visit. Trump was accompanied to his resort on those dates by top administration officials.

The President said upon taking office that he was giving up control of the Trump Organization, though the real estate and licensing empire is still run by his sons.