"OPM"

So long, suckers!

“It’s called OPM. I do that all the time in business. It’s called other people’s money. There’s nothing like doing things with other people’s money,” Trump said.

No shit, Sherlock:

JP Ward & Sons, an Irish funeral services home, rents out its fleet of Mercedes E-Class limousines not just to mourners but to anyone who wants to travel in style.

A killer price tag has not deterred the latest customer: the White House. It is so keen to use the vehicles for Donald Trump’s two-day visit to Ireland that it is spending nearly $1m (£788,000) of US taxpayers’ money to rent them.

The Trump administration paid the family-owned firm based in Bray, County Wicklow, $935,033 in four tranches, according to USASpending.gov, an official portal that records federal government spending.

The state department did not immediately respond to a request for confirmation that the outlay was to rent four vehicles, which would work out at $233,748 per vehicle.

The presidential entourage’s hotel bills have also drawn scrutiny. State department documents show US taxpayers have spent $1,223,230 on VIP accommodation at the InterContinental hotel on Park Lane in Mayfair, London.

After wrapping up a state visit to Britain, Trump is to fly into Shannon airport in County Clare on Wednesday evening. He will meet the Irish taoiseach, Leo Varadkar, and then fly by helicopter to his golf resort in Doonbeg, which overlooks the Atlantic.

He will fly to Normandy for D-day commemorations on Thursday, then return to Doonbeg for another night and a round of golf. He returns to Washington on Friday.

Exactly why the president needs the limousines is unclear. If Trump, his wife, Melania, and other senior members of the entourage travel by helicopter, they may have no need of cars.

If they visit the village of Doonbeg, as locals fervently hope, it will be an eight-mile round trip at a combined cost of $116,879 per mile, excluding the additional bill for the rest of the entourage, possibly in dozens of vehicles.

Just to put all that in context:

In June 2013 the company reportedly earned $114,000 ferrying Michelle Obama and her daughters Sasha and Malia around Dublin and Wicklow for three days while Barack Obama attended a G8 summit in Northern Ireland.

That's total for three days, not the per-mile cost.

Thanks for the sour persimmons, cousin!