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Forbes Daily Briefing

Trump Has Spent About One-Third Of His Presidency Visiting His Own Properties

Forbes Daily Briefing

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🗓️ 30 July 2025

⏱️ 5 minutes

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Where does the president go when he travels? Usually to the places where the Trump Organization makes money.

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Here's your Forbes Daily Briefing for Wednesday, July 30th. Today on Forbes, Trump has spent about

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one-third of his presidency visiting his own properties. Stationed in Scotland for several

0:14.9

days this past week, Donald Trump camped out in the sorts of destinations he likes best, his own

0:20.4

businesses.

0:22.0

He examined Trump Turnberry's grounds alongside the U.S. ambassador, touted its ballroom in front

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of the European Commission's president, and, on Tuesday morning, unveiled a second golf course

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at his property in Aberdeenshire with his sons Eric and Don Jr. No modern president has blended private

0:40.0

business and public duties quite like Trump. Having sold his Washington, D.C. hotel in 2022,

0:46.4

the president returned to office with no property in the nation's capital. That has not stopped

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him from personally tending to his assets.

0:59.9

He went to one of his clubs 16 of his first 17 weekends, and he has now spent time at his businesses on 75 of his first 190 days back in office, according to a Forbes analysis,

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traveling to Florida, New Jersey, Virginia, Nevada, and of course, Scotland.

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Forbes has tracked the trips month by month from January through July,

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identifying each day that Trump visited one of his properties.

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Days after taking office on January 20th, Trump headed to Las Vegas,

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staying in his hotel just off the strip.

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He then flew to Miami to welcome

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Republican representatives to a conference at Trump National Doral. The president returned to D.C.

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after a couple days in Florida, then headed back south the next weekend to visit Mar-a-Lago on

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January 31st, and remain there to start February. Mar-Lago quickly became the president's go-to getaway after he

1:46.5

returned to power. Since returning to office, Trump has spent time at Mar-a-Lago on 35 days,

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including 12 in February, according to Forbes's analysis. The president went to one of his clubs

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