WASHINGTON — President Donald Trump’s golf habit has now cost taxpayers at least $101.2 million in travel and security expenses since his return to office, a figure that is two-thirds of his first-term golf total and has him on track to spend $300 million by the end of his second term, according to a HuffPost analysis.

Trump’s arrival at his golf course in West Palm Beach, Florida, on Saturday morning marks his 56th visit there since his 2025 inauguration and his 110th day on a golf course that he owns — meaning he has played golf on more than one-quarter of his days since returning to the presidency.

“At a time when gas prices are spiking and Americans across the country find themselves in an ever-worsening affordability crisis, the president has burned through over $100 million in taxpayer money in order to make promotional appearances at his golf courses and hobnob with millionaires and billionaires,” said Jordan Libowitz with the Citizens for Responsibility and Ethics in Washington watchdog group. “If his goal were to help struggling Americans out, one thing he could try is stop spending their money going to his golf courses.”

Trump needed two full years to hit the $100 million mark in his first term, during which he played golf a total of 293 days at his own courses at a cost to taxpayers of $151.5 million. HuffPost has based its figures for transportation and security for Trump’s golf trips on a report to Congress during his first term in office.

In this second term, Trump has made 17 trips exclusively to his Mar-a-Lago country club home in Palm Beach, which is close to his courses in West Palm Beach and Jupiter. He has made seven more trips to Mar-a-Lago that included at least one additional stop. Last weekend, for example, Trump flew from Florida to Memphis for a speech before returning to Washington.

He has made eight trips to his course in Bedminster, New Jersey, at a cost of $1.1 million each and five to his resort in Doral, Florida, which cost $2.7 million each.

Of his regular golf destinations, Mar-a-Lago is by far the most expensive for him to visit, at $3.4 million a trip, because of the expense of patrolling both the Atlantic Ocean off the Palm Beach coast, as well as the Intracoastal Waterway that separates the barrier island from the mainland. When Trump is present, a Coast Guard ship is stationed offshore, and smaller law enforcement vessels with guns mounted on their bows are in the Intracoastal.

His most expensive trip to date has been the $9.7 million one he took to his resorts in Scotland last summer, which included participation in the grand opening of a new course at his Aberdeen property — an event for his for-profit business that the White House’s government staff helped promote.

In recent weeks, the White House has begun categorizing Trump’s golf outings as “executive time.” That phrase also appears in his public schedule almost daily.

When asked if that means that Trump is participating in some form of leisure activity in each of those instances, the White House press office responded with the unsigned statement: “Executive time refers to executive time.”

HuffPost’s analysis uses methodology and figures from a 2019 Government Accountability Office report on Trump’s golf trips early in his first term. That report found that four trips to Mar-a-Lago in early 2017 cost taxpayers $13.6 million, and then broke down that total into components like additional security expenses, the costs to fly Air Force One, and the need to transport motorcade vehicles using expensive C-17 cargo planes.

In his second term, the major drivers of the high cost for the president’s hobby ― the flights on Air Force One, the need for the Air Force C-17 transports, the salaries for those protecting the president ― have not diminished. Indeed, they have likely increased.

Because the salaries for military service members and law enforcement officers generally have not kept pace with the consumer price index, HuffPost did not inflate the figures to current dollars. The actual costs and totals, nevertheless, are certainly higher than HuffPost’s unadjusted 2019 numbers.

Prior to his election in 2016, Trump spent years criticizing former President Barack Obama’s golf outings, and during his first campaign, he promised he would be too busy to play golf. Then, following his 2020 election loss and failed coup attempt, Trump repeatedly criticized his successor, Joe Biden, for his frequent weekend trips to his home in Delaware.

But Obama’s taxpayer golf tab was a small fraction of Trump’s because Obama mainly played the course at Joint Base Andrews, a short motorcade ride from the White House. And Biden’s trips home used either the smaller version of Air Force One or a Marine One helicopter. Both cost far less to operate than the $273,063 per hour the GAO found it costs to fly the larger, modified Boeing 747 that Trump takes on his Florida golf trips.