Donald Trump's NYC Stay In August Cost NYPD $4.5M, Report Says

MIDTOWN MANHATTAN, NY — Donald Trumps 3-day stay in his Midtown penthouse during an August 2017 vacation cost the NYPD millions of dollars, according to reports.

The NYPD dished out more than $4.5 million on expenses related to presidential security in the five-day period from August 13 to August 17, according to police records obtained by CBS News. The president was staying in his Trump Tower penthouse from August 14 to August 16.

In the days before and after Trump's visit the NYPD assigned about 130 personnel to presidential security, CBS News reported. In the days that Trump was staying in Midtown, those numbers rose as high as 1,917, according to police documents. NYPD captains, lieutenants, detectives, traffic agents and standard officers were all deployed for presidential security duty, CBS News reported.

During Trump's New York City visit, the president made some of the most widely-criticized remarks of his presidency. Following a press conference to announce infrastructure reform actions, Trump got in a heated exchange with the press where he walked back a condemnation of white supremacist and neo-Nazi groups that participated in a deadly white nationalist rally in Charlottesville, Virginia. Trump also unleashed a tirade against the national media and who he called "alt-left" protesters who gathered in Charlottesville over the weekend.

NYPD Commissioner James O'Neill previously estimated the cost of protecting the president and his family at $308,000 per day. The city spent $24 million to keep the Trump family safe between the 2016 presidential election and Trump's Inauguration, according to city officials.

Read the full CBS News report here.

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