Melania Trump’s flights cost $675,000 over three months last year


Call her the Flying FLOTUS.

First Lady Melania Trump’s flights to and from Washington, D.C., during the first part of last year cost taxpayers $675,000, according to military records obtained by the Wall Street Journal.

The First Lady didn’t move to the White House until last June, after the first couple’s son, Barron, wrapped up fifth grade in Manhattan.

The trips in the records covered late January 2017, after President Trump was elected, through last April. They mostly ran between New York, Washington, D.C., and the President’s Mar-a-Lago resort in Florida.

Air Force jets made 48 trips in total to ferry the First Lady along the East Coast, the Journal reported, and she was on 21 of the flights.

The planes — military versions of the Gulfstream V and 550 models — took 19 trips to LaGuardia Airport and another nine to Palm Beach’s international airport, the Journal found.

“It is no secret that Mrs. Trump lived in New York City the first few months of the administration so that her son could finish school,” Trump spokeswoman Stephanie Grisham told the Journal. “The trips mentioned in this story are examples of Mrs. Trump juggling dual roles — putting her son first while also fulfilling some of her duties as First Lady.”

The flights were so costly because the jets left Joint Base Andrews in Maryland, the Journal noted, and in 27 cases didn’t have other passengers on them.

Former First Lady Michelle Obama, by comparison, traveling alone cost $2.8 million over eight year, the newspaper noted.

That comes out to an average $350,000 per year.

Trump, before dipping his toe into politics, was critical of the preceding first family’s travels.

“They love to spend money,” Trump tweeted in 2012 about a trip Michelle Obama took to Spain two years earlier.

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