Taxpayers shelled out another $3.4 million to send President Donald Trump to Florida this weekend so he could host a Super Bowl party for paying guests at his for-profit golf course.

The presidents official schedule shows him spending two and a half hours Sunday evening at a Super Bowl LIV watch party at Trump International Golf Club in West Palm Beach. Tickets sold for $75 each, but were only available to members of the club the initiation fee for which reportedly runs about $450,000, with annual dues costing several thousands of dollars more.

Well, obviously there are no TVs in the White House, so what alternative did he have? quipped Robert Weissman, president of the liberal group Public Citizen. He could have saved money by chartering a plane and flying club members to watch the game at the White House.

In response to a query, White House press secretary Stephanie Grisham defended Trumps trip and attacked HuffPost: The premise of your story is ridiculous and false, and just more left-wing media bias on display. The president never stops working, and that includes when he is at the Winter White House.

Her phrase Winter White House refers to Mar-a-Lago, the for-profit resort in Palm Beach that is several miles east of the golf course and that doubled its initiation fee from $100,000 to $200,000 after Trump was elected in 2016. Trump frequently mingles with guests at social events there.

On Saturday, for example, Trump appeared at a dinner at Mar-a-Lago arranged by the Trumpettes, a group of his female supporters . The dinner did not appear on the presidents publicly released schedule, and in any case was a campaign event, not an official one.

When a pool reporter asked the White House on Saturday what work Trump did over the weekend, the reply was that he had calls and meetings with staff. The president did not attend a rally on Saturday for Venezuelan leader Juan Guaido, whom the United States and other governments have recognized as the legitimate president of that country. That rally began while Trump was still at his golf course, and attending it could have made him late for the start of the Trumpettes dinner.

Trump promised during his presidential campaign that he would separate himself from his businesses if he won. However, he reneged on that vow, as well as on his promise to release his tax returns.