To King Obama photo-ops are apparently priceless, but to the American people – not so much:

WEEKLY STANDARD – President Barack Obama will fly over 9 hours tomorrow, round-trip from Washington, D.C. to Las Vegas, Nevada, just to deliver a speech on immigration, according to the president’s White House schedule. With Air Force One estimated to cost $182,000 per hour in flight, Obama’s trip–that is, only his travel to and from Vegas–will cost taxpayers over $1.6 million.

Obama has no other public events scheduled in Las Vegas but his immigration speech.

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36 comments
TIMERUNNER
TIMERUNNER

Las vegas is known best for it's drugs , sex, and crime, the stash must have been getting dangerously low, past high time to restock the cabinets medicine cabinet.

white531
white531

Make no mistake. Scoop's headline on this is a true fact. This narcissistic madman does indeed believe himself to be King. The greatest leader who ever appeared on Earth.

SurfinCowboy
SurfinCowboy

I got a puddle of mud in the yard he can give a speech in at any time!

Whada dork. And I mean that. What a whale's penis.

tinlizzieowner
tinlizzieowner

I wonder if Obama has had a putting green installed in AF-1 yet. He might as well, he spends a lot of time (and our money) in it. ;-)

joyfulgiver
joyfulgiver

He couldn't have just given his speech via a conference call, think of all the sheeple he could have reached that way and the MILLIONS of dollars he could have saved the rest of us.

disqus_skmg9qex9q
disqus_skmg9qex9q

And his sheeple honestly believe he doesn't have a spending problem, that it's all Bush's fault. UGH! I'm already sick and tired of the imigration debate, what about the ECONOMY, it's certainly not getting better in my neck of the woods. Another four years of a president that does nothing but seek popularity, yikes, I don't know how much longer we can take it.

demographicallychallenged
demographicallychallenged

1.8 million isn't even tip money compared to what his immigration policy will cost the the American Tax Payer.

Sober_Thinking
Sober_Thinking

Air Force One... fueled by the sweat and blood of the peasants.

Ray
Ray

The intro to this article says it all!

Rocco11
Rocco11

Communism is great for those at the top..

kssturgis62
kssturgis62

He is Going to Announce that SAME SEX COUPLES ARE INCLUDED IN THE AMNESTY. BI NATIONAL SAME SEX COUPLES.

Meaning one American and One Foreigner. Because it isn't FAIR that they have no way to bring over their other partner. It also Includes TRANSGENDER !!!

W. A. Whitestone
W. A. Whitestone

Obama probably heard about the new action in Vegas ...the Saudi prince who 'accidently' raped a 13 year old boy in a hotel a week or so ago.

Haywoodjbl
Haywoodjbl

He can't just deliver it from the Oval Office....? What an Ahole

martha chandler
martha chandler

We have to spend money to hear this toerag say nothing??

sjmom
sjmom

Disgusting and disgraceful and someone in the WH Press Corps needs to make some hay out of this but they won't.

Joe
Joe

TOO NAUSEAS TO COMMENT!

Gary E Zink
Gary E Zink

The most powerful weapon the politician wields against the people is their own collective forgetfulness. What is entirely irksome is the manner in which they mock the people who do remember past promises unkept, with the tacit blessing of the forgetful majority.

First, SECURE THE FRIGGIN' BORDER - All other considerations are secondary!

TexasBanker
TexasBanker

The amount of checking accounts that I see opened by illegals is enough to make me sick. The official number of 11 million illegals is not even close to the real number.

c4pfan
c4pfan

Didn't he tell people that they are wasting their money going to Vegas? LOL

NYGino
NYGino

Do as I say, not as I do.

NYGino
NYGino

How could this possibly be justified?

Nukeman60
Nukeman60

Well, going to Las Vegas at a high cost to us is certainly no surprise. Obama has been gambling with our future since day one. The fact that he is gambling away somebody else's money is his MO.

aposematic
aposematic

Do the D's/Obuma Admin. not know the people attending his "speech" have TVs? What is the real purpose, if any, of this "trip?"

Conniption Fitz
Conniption Fitz

Going to get some er, action while he's out there? Did he hear about the Saudi who 'accidentally' raped the 13 year old boy there the last week or so? Was it by accident the last international big meetings were in Bali infamous for selling little boys to sex tourists, Colombia and Afghanistan whose largest GNP is drugs?

tshtsh
tshtsh

He is making money somehow with this trip.

Nukeman60
Nukeman60

I believe it is photoshopped. Although Obama used his logo on his campaign planes, the Air Force One plane still sports the American flag on the tail and the words "United States of America" on the side.

tshtsh
tshtsh

Thank you Nuke and Stage9. Me vs Onion, onion wins again.

stage9
stage9

I thought the same thing, but I think that's PhotoShopped.

Orangeone
Orangeone

Likely raising $$$ for his nonprofit.

LadyMacKeltar
LadyMacKeltar

How many breakfasts could be served to the troops in Afghanistan with $1.6 million?? Talk about being wasteful, Mr. President. Cut your own spending first, you would be saving us millions.

Rshill7
Rshill7

King Obama. The anti-Midas. Long may he wane.

Sandra123456
Sandra123456

But he is the King...how can he be denied?

Orangeone
Orangeone

Just another cost of the bully-in-chief.

stage9
stage9

Yep, and he will get votes in return for it too.