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The trips are not cheap for First Lady Melania Trump.
Federal spending indicates that during Trump's trip to Cairo earlier this month, the US State Department paid $ 95,050 to Semiramis Intercontinental Cairo for the first lady's visit – but according to she did not even spend the night!
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The first lady's director of communications, Stephanie Grisham, told Quartz, who announced the news in the first place, that Ms. Trump had only been in Cairo for six hours.
Grisham confirmed to the PEOPLE that the first lady had not stayed at the hotel at night. Grisham also asked where the federal spending records were pulling their information, adding that his team was trying to find out where this figure came from. She did not directly dispute the figure, however.
Rooms at this luxury hotel range from $ 119 to $ 699 a night, according to Semiramis Intercontinental Cairo's website.
The statements of expenditure were not detailed, without giving any indication of the charges that led to the billing.
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This is not the first time a Trump trip costs taxpayers thousands of dollars.
During Donald Trump's stay in July at his own golf course in Scotland, where he played the links for two rounds of golf, taxpayers found themselves with a bill of $ 68,800, according to L & # 39; Scottish.
Trump, his son Eric and the White House staff spent two nights at the Trump Turnberry, paid with state department money, the Scottish newspaper reported.
The Trump organization has not contested L & # 39; ScottishAccording to one report, the US government paid Turnberry $ 68,800 to cover the costs of Trump's visit. However, a statement sent to PEOPLE and attributed to George A. Sorial, executive vice president and chief compliance officer of the Trump Organization, said the company had not benefited from the suspension.
"For the patronage of the US government, our hotels charge rates only at cost and we do not take advantage of those stays," said Sorial in a statement.
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During her trip to Africa, which included a stop in Cairo, the first lady spoke out against all the criticism she received, calling herself "the most intimidated person in the world".
At a roundtable with ABC News, the first lady told national affairs chief Tom Llamas that her "Be Best" policy platform for online bullying was personal.
"I could say that I am the most bullied person in the world," she told the audience, filmed during her recent tour of Africa. "One of them, if you really see what people are saying about me."
"That's why" Be Best "focuses on online behavior and social media," continued Trump. "We need to educate children [about] social behavior, emotional. "
During the trip, the first lady was also criticized for wearing a helmet, a hat most often associated with colonialists.
"I would like people to focus on what I do and not on what I wear," she told reporters at a stopover in Giza, Egypt.
